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Pilipinas Kong Mahal (English: Philippines, My Philippines) is one of the most popular patriotic songs in the Philippines. [2] The song was composed by Filipino musician, Francisco Santiago and lyrics by Ildefonso Santos. [1] The original English text, Philippines, My Philippines, was written by Prescott Ford Jernegan
The Philippines is known to have the first hip-hop music scene in Asia, emerging in the early 1980s, largely due to the country's historical connections with the United States where hip-hop originated. Rap music released in the Philippines has appeared in different languages such as Tagalog, Chavacano, Cebuano, Ilocano, and English.
"Sa Ugoy ng Duyan" (literally in Tagalog: "In the Rocking of the Cradle"; official English title: "The Sway of the Baby Hammock" [1]) is a Filipino lullaby. The music was composed by Lucio San Pedro while the lyrics were written by Levi Celerio. [1] Both of them were National Artists of the Philippines and this song was their most popular ...
"Naging Mahirap" (lit. ' Became Poor '), also referred to by its opening line "Nakaligo Ka Na Ba sa Dagat ng Basura", [1] [2] [Note 1] is a Filipino-language campaign jingle of Senator Manny Villar's campaign for the 2010 Philippine presidential election.
The original composer, Mike Velarde, Jr., said: "Sometime in 1960 a famous US singer who made a personal appearance in Manila presented me a contract seeking authority to record 'Dahil Sa Iyo' in the States. The five figure offer was fabulous but I turned it down - simply because she wanted to change the title to an American title.
Since the song was passed from generations to generations, the lyrics was wrongly interpreted as Baleleng. [1] The song is about a man bidding goodbye to a lady called Leleng as he is going to war. Like other Sama Dilaut songs, it is sung with the accompaniment of a string instrument like gitgit and biula, gabbang and the kulintangan. [8] [9]
The folk song was featured in Ryan Cayabyab's 15-track album Bahaghari, sung by Lea Salonga. [10] It has been performed and interpreted by different brass bands, orchestras and choral groups [11] in the Philippines. [12] [13] The song was also performed as a traditional folk dance in festivals. [14] [15]
Kumintang (love song; also a pantomimic "dance song" – Dr. F. Santiago) Cundiman (love song; used especially in serenading ) The Spanish scholar V.M. Avella described the kundiman in his 1874 work Manual de la Conversación Familiar Español-Tagalog as the " canción indígena " (native song) of the Tagalogs and characterized its melody as ...