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Filipino pop songs mainly referred to songs popularized since the 1960s, usually sentimental ballads and movie themes.Major 1960s Filipino pop acts include Pilita Corrales and Nora Aunor. 1960s-styled ballads maintained their popularity into the 1970s, led by female balladeers dubbed "jukebox queens" such as Claire dela Fuente, Imelda Papin and Eva Eugenio, and male artists such as Anthony ...
Original Pilipino Music, more commonly referred to as OPM, a commercial acronym coined by Danny Javier of the APO Hiking Society, [8] originally referred only to the pop genre of music from the Philippines, predominantly ballads and novelty numbers, that became popular after the wane of its direct 1970s commercial predecessor, Manila sound.
Manila sound is styled as catchy and melodic, with smooth, lightly orchestrated, accessible folk/soft rock, sometimes fused with funk, light jazz and disco.However, broadly speaking, it includes quite a number of genres (e.g. pop, vocal music, soft rock, folk pop, disco, soul, Latin jazz, funk etc.), and should therefore be best regarded as a period in Philippine popular music rather than as a ...
View history; General ... Philippine popular music (2 C, 3 P) R. Pinoy rock (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Philippine styles of music"
The Metro Manila Popular Music Festival (also known as Metropop) was launched by the Popular Music Foundation of the Philippines in 1977 and held annually from 1978 to 1985. [1] It was "the country's pioneering and once foremost songwriting competition," according to The Philippine Star . [ 2 ]
Regine Velasquez is considered as the best-selling artist of all time in the Philippines with 7 million certified albums locally and 1.5 million certified albums in Asia. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Other artists such as Eraserheads and Rivermaya have three albums on the list, while Gary Valenciano , Jaya , Jolina Magdangal , MYMP , Smokey Mountain and ...
Pinoy rock, or Filipino rock, is the brand of rock music produced in the Philippines or by Filipinos.It has become as diverse as the rock music genre itself, and bands adopting this style are now further classified under more specific genres or combinations of genres like alternative rock, post-grunge, ethnic, new wave, pop rock, punk rock, funk, reggae, heavy metal, ska, and recently, indie.
Under his direction, the SMPO and the SMMC recorded seven award-winning albums to date: Great Filipino Love Songs (2004), Great Original Pilipino Music by Ryan Cayabyab (2004), The Sacred Works of Ryan Cayabyab (2004), Pasko I and Pasko II (2005), Great Original Pilipino Music from the Movies (2006), and Dancing in the Rain (2006).