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RYAN CAYABYAB
Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab (born May 4, 1954), known professionally as Ryan Cayabyab is a Filipino musician, composer and conductor regarded as one of the pillars and icons of Original Pilipino Music (OPM). He was the Executive and Artistic Director for several years for the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. He was named National Artist of the Philippines for Music in 2018.
Ryan Cayabyab (1954 in the Phillipines) graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Music with a bachelor’s degree in music composition and went on to teach music theory and composition there for almost two decades. At home with any genre, Cayabyab excels as a composer of the eclectic, the modern, and popular music. Awarded in 1978 as one of TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men) of the Philippines, in 2001 he emerged as the only Asian winner of the Onassis International Cultural Competition in Greece with his MISA 2000.
His musical output consists of several masses, award winning film and television scores, short symphonic works, ten full-length Filipino musicals, a major opera, full length ballets, solo and instrumental works, orchestrations of Filipino folk, popular and love songs, three one-man (he provided all 16 voices) a cappella song albums, and scores of popular songs sung by top Filipino recording artists.
In addition to winning several international music festival competitions, he has won countless awards from the film, television and recording industries.
Ryan and his wife Emmy run the Music School of Ryan Cayabyab, now on its twenty-second year.
PARAISO
PARAISO
Paraiso is the second studio album by young Filipino singing group Smokey Mountain. It was released in the Philippines in 1991 by Sony BMG Music. The album slightly surpassed the commercial success of the group's self-titled debut album, also certifying 8× Platinum by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) and selling over 253,800 units in the country. It is considered to be one of the biggest-selling albums in the Philippines, overtaking Smokey Mountain (the album) in terms of sales. The album was released in Japan in 1992 with a different track listing.
DA COCONUT NUT
Da Coconut Nut is a song composed by Filipino National Artists Ryan Cayabyab, for the band Smokey mountain in 1991. The song's lyrics describe the uses of the different parts of a coconut tree. Cayabyab, in an interview with ABS-CBN, said that the song was composed in the novelty style popularized by Yoyoy Villame
KUMUKUTIKUTITAP
The song Kumukutikutitap by Ryan Cayabyab is a lively and upbeat holiday tune that describes the twinkling lights of Christmas decorations. The chorus repeats the playful movement of the lights and ornaments, and how they all come together to create a beautiful display. The final stanza of the song indicates how adding more decorations and gifts can increase the joy of the holiday season.
HETO NA NAMAN
In Ryan Cayabyab's song "Heto Na Naman," the lyrics depict the recurring joyful season of Christmas. It paints a picture of the familiar traditions, such as the abundance of grapes and apples in boxes, the strain on one's pockets, and the tiredness from searching for affordable yet beautiful gifts. The song also mentions the presence of the salty challenge of preparing for the occasion, as well as the nostalgia for old fruitcakes and the exchange of gifts like diaries, chocolates, and soaps.
KAY GANDA NG ATING MUSIKA
The lyrics of Ryan Cayabyab's "Kay Ganda Ng Ating Musika" speak to the beauty of music and the transformative power it has on the world. The song describes how, as the singer learned to sing, his world became more colorful and vibrant. He compares the melody of music to a river, sometimes shallow and sometimes deep, but always full of love and emotion. The song speaks to the idea that music is something that can bring people together and lift them up above the mundane world. As the song says, "this is ours, our own, and we shall sing it for the rest of our lives."
FELIPE P. DE LEON
FELIPE P. DE LEON
Felipe Padilla de Leon was born on the 1st of May, 1912 in the barrio of Papaya (now General Tinio) in Penaranda, Nueva Ecija. He is the son of Juan de Leon and Natalia Padilla. He is the third of four children by the second marriage of his mother. His elder, half-brother, Pedro P. San Diego, helped his mother in taking care of them. Felipe de Leon married pianist Iluminada Mendoza with whom he had six children. Bayani and Felipe Jr., are two of his children; the former being a well-known composer, and the latter, a writer. Felipe Sr.'s father died when he was only three years old and his mother supported the family by selling betel nut leaves. And when he was old enough, he held a number of odd jobs ranging from that of a shoe-shine boy, a carabao herder, a rig driver, a seller of vernacular weeklies, and an ice-cream and pan de sal vendor.
When he was studying at the Nueva Ecija High School, he went on trips with his hometown band and wrote short pieces for them. In 1927, he took up Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines, but he had to stop schooling in order to make a living. He played the trombone in dance orchestras which performed in cabarets, circuses and bodabil (vaudeville). Then, he worked as an assistant conductor of the Nueva Ecija High School Orchestra where he started doing musical arrangements. Later on, he wrote music for the sarswela. He decided to study formally and enrolled at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music, where he studied under Col. Antonio Buenaventura and Antonio Molina. He contributed articles to the school paper and vernacular magazines. Later, he wrote music columns for the Manila Times (then known as Manila Tribune) and Taliba. In 1939, he graduated with a music teacher's diploma, major in conducting. Much later, he took advanced studies in composition under Vittorio Giannini of the Julliard School of Music in New York. De Leon received many awards. Among them are Composer of the Year (1949), Manila Music Lovers Society, Musician Of the Year (1958), UP Conservatory of Music, and others. He was conferred an honorary degree, doctor of philosophy in the humanities, by the University of the Philippines in 1991.
PAYAPANG DAIGDIG
The destruction wreaked by World War II was especially devastating in the Philippines’ capital city of Manila. On Christmas night in 1946, just a year after the war’s end, a young Filipino musician named Felipe de Leon climbed on top of some of the highest ruins in the city, and composed a carol of peace, “Payapang Daigdig” (“Peaceful World”) to words by the well-known Filipino journalist, author, and editor Brigido Batungbakal.
PASKO NA NAMAN
Written in 1965, this pasodoble by Felipe de Leon has achieved folk song status by Filipinos; It was one of the most popular christmas carols in the Philippines.
AWIT NG GABI NI SISA
"Awit ng Gabi ni Sisa" was written in around 1953 by Felipe Padilla de Leon for Fides Cuyugan-Asensio's graduation recital. It was later included in his famous opera "Noli me Tangere" in 1957. Ever since the premiere, this song became one of the most famous scenes in the opera. It has also became one of the favorite showpieces of Filipino coloratura sopranos.
KAY SELYA
"Kay Selya" is the first chapter of Francisco Balagtas' epic "Florante at Laura". It was a poem dedicated to the author's lover, and has nothing to do with the story of the epic.
NOCHE BUENA
"Noche Buena" is a Tagalog-language Christmas song written by composer Felipe Padilla de León and lyricist Levi Celerio in 1965. As a Christmas standard, it has been recorded by numerous Filipino artists since its publication.
RAMON P. SANTOS
RAMON P. SANTOS
Ramón Pagayon Santos is a Filipino composer born 25 February 1941 , ethnomusicologist, and educator known for being the Philippines' foremost living exponent of contemporary Filipino classical music, for work that expounds on "the aesthetic frameworks of Philippine and Southeast Asian artistic traditions," and for finding new uses of indigenous Philippine instruments.
A University Professor Emeritus of the composition and theory department at the College of Music of the University of the Philippines Diliman, he was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines for music in 2014.
LIKAS-AN
Likas-an is a truly avant garde work addressing human's relentless control of the environment in an attempt to effect a happy union with nature. With this work, Santos debunked the elitist notion that music can only be performed by musicians. Combining both human and natural energies in a productive union, the piece involved newly invented instruments that would escape human control: "you could not even predict the rhythm that would result. Nature would take care of that". For bamboos, hammers and nails, flutes, steel junk, plastic tube for musicians and non-musicians.
DU'A
Du’a was inspired by the solemnity, the piety, and religious fervor of the Islamic community, especially of the Yakan people. It starts with the different strands of prayer which go towards the same direction. It then grows into larger realms of consciousness which is represented by the powerful sounds of gongs and lower instruments, only to resolve into flitting nothingness and going back to silence. Composer, conductor, and musicologist Ramon Pagayon Santos is currently the country’s foremost exponent of contemporary Filipino music.
KLINTANG
The piano piece "Klintang" as composed by ethnomusicologist, Dr. Ramon Santos got its inspiration from the kulintang which is a row of 5 to 9 graduated pot gongs, horizontally laid upon a frame with the lowest pitched gong found to the player's left. The kulintang is traditionally played by our kindred Islam brothers of Southern Philippines, especially the Maranao and Maguindanao peoples. It is part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, especially of Indonesia and Malaysia.
DING DING NGA DIWAYA
Originally based on a Mindanao folksong, this vocal piece was used as a showcase during the world tour of the UP Madrigal singers in 1972. In 1974, it was choreographed by Alice Reyes and danced by the CCP dance company.
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