Original Pilipino music, now more commonly termed original Pinoy music, original Philippine music or

OPM, originally referred only to Philippine pop songs, particularly ballads, such as those popular after
the collapse of its predecessor, the Manila Sound of the late 1970s.

Ryan Cayabyab (born Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab on May 4,

1954 in Manila, Philippines but known as Mr. C) is a Filipino musician,
composer and conductor; he was Executive and Artistic Director for several
years of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. He was
also a resident judge for the only television season of Philippine
Idol, broadcast in 2006.
His works range from commissioned full-length ballets, theater musicals,
choral pieces, a Mass set to unaccompanied chorus, and orchestral pieces, to
commercial recordings of popular music, film scores and television specials.
Cayabyab's current project includes the Ryan Cayabyab Singers (RCS), a
group of seven young adult singers comparable to his group Smokey Mountain in the early 1990s.
After FreemantleMedia decided not to renew the Philippine Idol franchise, Cayabyab transferred to
rival show Pinoy Dream Academy (season 2),replacing Jim Paredes as the show's headmaster.
PDA 2 started on June 14, 2008. He also became the chairman of the board of judges for GMA
Network's musical-reality show To The Top.
He is the executive director of the Philpop MusicFest Foundation Inc., the organization behind
the Philippine Popular Music Festival. This songwriting competition for amateurs and professionals
puts the spotlight on songwriters and encourages Filipinos to preserve their unique musical identity.
Composed songs:

Leron Leron Sinta Paraisong Parisukat

Da Coconut Nut Mamang Kutsero

Heto Nanaman

Herminio Jose Lualhati Alcasid Jr. (born 27 August 1967), known as Ogie
Alcasid is a Filipino singer-songwriter, television presenter, comedian, parodist,
and actor. He is currently the President of OPM (Organisasyon ng Pilipinong
Mang-Aawit) and Commissioner of the Edsa People Power Commission.

Ogie is a former batch member of all male singing group Kundirana batch 1985
after Gary Valenciano. His first album was released in 1988. His debut movie
was Feel Na Feel released by Regal Entertainment in 1990, followed by his 2nd
movie Tiny Terrestrial: The Tiny Professors released by OctoArts films in 1991. The same year, Ogie
made his VIVA films debut movie, Pitong Gamol.
Alcasid's television career started as one of the hosts of comedy show Small Brothers on ABS-
CBN in 1992. He appeared on other comedy programs such as ABS-CBN's Mana Mana (1991–
92), ABC's Tropang Trumpo (from 1994–95), GMA Network's Bubble Gang (1995-2013), QTV's Ay,
Robot! (2005–07), and a sitcom Show Me Da Manny (2010–11).
He also branched out as a game show host, beginning in ABS-CBN's Game Na Game Na in 1995
and the Philippine version of Family Feud on ABC-5 in 2001. He hosted Fastbreak, a former
basketball game show on IBC 13 in 2002 and Celebrity Duets: Philippine Edition on GMA. He was a
host on SOP Rules.[1] He got his big break in Hanggang Kailan, his first drama show, and also sang
its main theme with Aiza Seguerra. In 1995, he moved to GMA Network, leaving ABS-CBN.
Alcasid is recently the judge in Pinoy Idol. and hosted such game shows as Da Big Show and Hole
In The Wall. In 2013, he left GMA Network and moved to TV5, where he first project under the
channel was The Mega and The Songwriter.
In 2016, he returned to his home network, ABS-CBN. He joined Tawag Ng Tanghalan on It's
Showtime as a judge and he was also a judge of Your Face Sounds Familiar: Kids, replacing Jed
Madela, the judge of season 1 and 2 of the same show.
Before he returned to ABS-CBN, his contract on TV5 had expired. He later appeared on
several GMA Network shows as a guest. He appeared as a guest on Yan Ang Morning, Sunday
Pinasaya, and on Eat Bulaga! as a guest judge. He was a special guest in Sarap Diva, hosted by his
wife, Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, and the comedy show Bubble Gang, where he recently a cast
member until 2013 before his transfer to TV5.
Songs:

Ikaw Sana Kung Mawala Ka Hanggang Ngayon

Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang Nandito ako

Freddie Aguilar's musical beginnings started when he was young.

At the age of 14, he wrote songs. When he was 17-years-old,
Aguilar played his first guitar. By the time he was 20-years-old,
Freddie Aguilar performed on stage for the first time
Freddie Aguilar studied Electrical Engineering at De Guzman
Institute of Technology but did not finish the degree program. Instead he pursued music, became a
street musician, and then a folk club and bar musician
At the age of 18, Aguilar parted ways with his family and quit college. After realizing and regretting
his mistakes five years later, he composed the song "Anak".
Freddie Aguilar's influences include British and American folk-rock stars like Cat Stevens and James
Taylor He is also heavily influenced by his Filipino heritage, nationalist feelings, and tries to
constitute a musical exploration of the Filipino ethos.
Freddie Aguilar's "Anak" not only broke the Philippine record charts in 1979, but it also hit the no. 1
spot in Japan and achieved considerable popularity in other countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia,
Hong Kong, and parts of Western Europe. The song has become so famous that, by some counts, it
has been recorded in as many as a hundred versions in 23 languages throughout the world.
Billboard reported that the song was the number two world hit of the 1980s. As of 2006, it was
unsurpassed as the highest-selling record of Philippine music history

Songs:

Anak Kamusta Ka Ipaglalaban Ko

Sa Kuko ng Agila Bulag pipi at bingi

 José Mari L. Chan (born March 11, 1945 in Iloilo City), commonly
known by the nickname Jose Mari Chan is a Chinese
Filipino singer, songwriter and businessman in the sugar industry.
He is currently chairman and CEO of Binalbagan Isabela Sugar
Company, Inc. (BISCOM) and A. Chan Sugar Corporation. He is
also the chairman and president of Signature Music, Inc.
Chan first appeared on the local scene as the host and singer of a television show called "9
Teeners" of ABS-CBN in 1966. His first single Afterglow was released in 1967
His first long playing album Deep in My Heart was issued in 1969. In 1973, he represented
the Philippines in the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo where his song Can We Just Stop And
Talk Awhile went into the final entries
In 1975, he moved to the United States to run a branch office of their family's sugar business and
remained there for 11 years. In 1986, he returned to the Philippines and went back to the music
industry with the release of his album A Golden Collection.
In 1989, he released his album Constant Change. It was named Album of the Year by the Awit
Awards, the local equivalent of the American Grammy Awards and reached the Diamond Record in
terms of sales. It also sold in other Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
In 1990, his Christmas album, Christmas in Our Hearts was released It reached triple platinum
status that same year, eventually earning the Double Diamond Record Award in 1995. The
significant popularity of his iconic Christmas songs and the album during the holiday season
annually earned him the title of "Father of Philippine Christmas Music".
In 1994 he released his eighth album, Thank You Love, where he has another song "Is She Thinking
About Me" with Christine Bersola-Babao and another christmas song, "Christmas Past". His 2001
album A Heart's Journey won Album of the year in the Awit Awards. In 2005, he composed "We're
All Just One" as the theme song of the (2005 Southeast Asian Games). In 2007 He released his
12th album Love Letters And Other Souvenirs.
In 2009, Joe Mari was inducted to the Philippines Eastwood City Walk Of Fame.[citation needed]
In 2011, he released his 13th full-length album, The Manhattan Connection: The Songs of Jose Mari
Chan. The album, which was produced by Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer. The songs were
reimagined by music producer Yaron Gershovsky
In 2012, he released his 14th over-all album Going Home To Christmas. It was his second
Christmas album after 22 years since Christmas In Our Hearts was released in 1990. In 2013, he
guested in The Ryzza Mae Show. Christmas In Our Hearts was re-issued in 2015 to mark its 25th
anniversary
Songs:
Please be careful with my heart a love to last a lifetime
Deep in my heart Beautiful girl Afraid for love to fade
 Francis Michael Durango Magalona (October 4, 1964 – March 6, 2009), also
known as FrancisM, Master Rapper, The Mouth and The Man From Manila,
was a Filipino rapper, entrepreneur, songwriter, producer, actor, director, and
photographer. Born in Mandaluyong City, he was the first Filipino rapper in the
Philippines to cross over into the mainstream. He was credited for having
pioneered the merging of rap with Pinoy rock, becoming a significant influence
to artists in that genre as well. He was also a television host on MTV
Asia and Channel V Philippines and on noontime variety television show Eat
Bulaga! Magalona died seven months after being diagnosed with acute
myelogenous leukemia.[2] Magalona was later awarded a
posthumous Presidential Medal of Merit. The award's citation noted that it had been given "for his
musical and artistic brilliance, his deep faith in the Filipino and his sense of national pride that
continue to inspire us."
In 1990, he released the album Yo!, the first commercially released Filipino rap album. Yo! included
several popular singles such as "Mga Kababayan" (Fellow Countrymen), "Gotta Let 'Cha Know",
"Cold Summer Nights", and a duet with Pia Arroyo "Loving You" as the only song that Pia
recorded.[citation needed] With tracks that featured politically conscious and thought-provoking rhymes in
both English and Tagalog, Yo! was a big success and helped catapult Filipino hip hop from
underground to mainstream status. It also marked the birth of Makabayang (nationalistic) rap in
Filipino hip hop.
In 1992, Francis Magalona released Rap Is FrancisM (1992). With tracks addressing the various
cultural and social problems that plagued his country such as drug addiction in "Mga Praning"
(Paranoids), political instability in "Halalan" (Elections) as well as the detrimental effects of a colonial
mentality in "Tayo'y Mga Pinoy" (We Are Filipinos), the record's complexity and conscious message
quickly earned it its classic status and became the standard by which future albums of the genre
were to be compared This album helped tag Magalona as one of the most politically conscious
voices of his generation.
Songs:
Kaliedoscope World Cold summer Nights Girl be mine
Mga kabayan Mga Praning

The Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society, later popularly known

as APO Hiking Society, or simply APO, was a Filipino musical
group The group had its fledgling beginnings in 1969 at the Ateneo
de Manila high school, with 15 members John Paul Micayabas,
Lito de Joya, Sonny Santiago, Gus Cosio, Renato Garcia, Chito
Kintanar, Kenny Barton, Bruce Brown, Butch Dans, Kinjo
Sawada, Ric Segreto, Goff Macaraeg, Doden Besa, Jim Paredes,
and Boboy Garovillo. The group's name was created from the
acronym AMHS representing their school with a witty twist having an irreverent reference to
the paralyzed Philippine revolutionary intellectual and hero, Apolinario Mabini, and later shortened to
"Apo", an Ilocano term for a wise man or a Tagalog term of grandchildren, and later re-branded to
"APO" (all caps). Contrary to popular belief, the "Apo" name was not a reference to the Philippines's
highest peak, the potentially-active stratovolcano Mount Apo.
The Name "Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society" was meant to be deliberately ironic since the historical
figure, Apolinario Mabini, famously lost the use of his legs to polio
The Apo Hiking Society first gained recognition in 1973 when they gave a farewell concert at
the Meralco Theater in Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Just out of college, the group was the
talk of the Ateneo de Manila University and adjoining campuses for their music and humor.
It was only when two of its four members were about to retire from the field of amateur music,
however, that the APO, then known as the Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society, finally had a citywide
audience. One of them was scheduled to leave for Turkey as an exchange student. The other had a
position waiting for him in his father's advertising firm.
The trip to Turkey did not materialize and the APO, now a tentative trio, pushed on steadily towards
fame and fortune.
In late 1978, APO Hiking Society nearly disbanded after Jim Paredes stormed out a songwriting
session. While asking Danny Javier for a 3 syllable word to fill in a line, he was provided the word
"katapusan"; a 4 syllable word. The error went unnoticed until post recording where an irate Paredes
noticed that the word had indeed one extra syllable more than what he had originally intended.
Looking back, the APO members Danny Javier and Boboy Garrovillo do not regret never having
been regular wage earners. Their farewell concert, which had SRO audiences for two stormy nights,
not unexpectedly became a hit record the following year.
Songs:
Batang bata ka pa panalangin When I met you
Awit ng barkada Ewan

Eraserheads (sometimes stylized

as ERASƎRHEADS) is a Filipino rock band formed
in 1989. Consisting of Ely Buendia, Marcus
Adoro, Buddy Zabala, and Raimund Marasigan, the
band became one of the most successful, most
influential, critically acclaimed, and significant bands
in the history of Philippine music, leaving a legacy
that resulted to them being the most commercially
successful Filipino music artists of all time. Often
dubbed as "The Beatles of the Philippines", they are credited for spearheading a second wave of
Manila band invasions paving the way for a host of Philippine alternative rock bands
The band released several singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one and achieved
commercial success with their third album Cutterpillow, which achieved platinum status several
times. They received the Viewer's Choice Award for Asia from the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards.
In July 1993, Eraserheads started recording their debut album called Ultraelectromagneticpop!.The
album featured "Pare Ko" (My Friend), "Toyang" and "Tindahan ni Aling Nena" (The Store of Aling
Nena), all of which were also present in Pop-U! The album also featured a sanitized version of "Pare
Ko" called "Walang Hiyang Pare Ko" Later in the same year, BMG initially released 5,000 copies of
the album. The album became a smash hit, with the songs "Ligaya", "Pare Ko" and "Toyang" topping
the charts that, by the end of the year, BMG sold 300,000 copies,
and Ultraelectromagneticpop! turned sextuple platinum.
The album met some opposition as the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI)
attempted to censor "Pare Ko" but without success The public was said to have found its OPM Fab
Four in Eraserheads, opening the second wave of band invasion.The Eraserheadsmania was born.[9]
In October 1994, Eraserheads released a follow-up album entitled Circus. The band said that the
album aptly described their life since their debut. The album was unpredictable and unconventional
compared to the OPM ballads at that time, and established the band members as songwriters and
musicians. The songs varied in style and mood, ranging from euphoric and hilarious to tender and
somber. In the same year, Eraserheads played during the Miss Universe Pageant which was held in
Manila.[citation needed]
Four of the songs became successive hits: "Kailan" (When), "Magasin" (Magazine), "Alapaap"
(Clouds) and "With a Smile" Circus turned gold in just 30 days with 20,000 copies sold. Eventually, it
turned quintuple platinum with 200,000 copies sold. But like ultraelectromagneticpop!, it too had its
share of controversy. In August 1995, Senator Tito Sotto, who was involved in an anti-drug
campaign at that time, called for a ban on the airplay and sales of "Alapaap" over an alleged
promotion of drug abuse in the lyrics of the song. In response, Eraserheads denied the allegation,
saying that it was just a misinterpretation, and that the song was the band's "ode to freedom", not an
"ode to drug abuse"
Their third album, Cutterpillow, was launched an open-air concert attended by fans and followers.
With Christmas barely a month over, Eraserheads opened 1996 by making history in the Philippine
music scene once more. Cutterpillow turned gold, even before it hit the record stores, as a result of
the pre-selling promo campaign. Soon, the band shot the music video for the song "Ang Huling El
Bimbo" (The Last El Bimbo) from the album
Later that year, the band came up with a conceptual Christmas album Fruitcake. The album is
notable in that it is the first and only album of the band recorded entirely in English. This was shortly
followed by a release of a companion storybook of the same title.[9]
Also in 1995 the band was given a shot at acting when they co-starred with comedian Joey De
Leon of "Eat Bulaga" in the comedy film Run Barbi Run produced by GMA Network's Cinemax
Studios (now GMA Films).
After weeks of speculation, it was confirmed that the main songwriter and lead singer, Ely Buendia,
had left the band in mid-March 2002 for "reasons unknown". However, in subsequent interviews,
Buendia pointed to business matters as the cause of the band's break-up
In PULP Magazine, Buendia's wife and manager, Diane Ventura, claimed that the breakup started
with a miscommunication between Buendia and the band's roadie, the result being that Buendia and
Ventura turned up late at a mall gig. This upset the roadie who snidely referred to the couple as
"unprofessional". Buendia's band colleagues and crew at the gig gave Buendia "a cold shoulder",
related Ventura, being under the impression that Buendia had come late deliberately. The next day,
Buendia brought the incident to the attention of the band's management boss, Butch Dans, to which
he allegedly reverted the blame to the roadie's "unprofessionalism". Dans, however, allegedly chose
to consider the roadie's account over Buendia's without much deliberation. Dans allegedly quipped
that Buendia and Ventura were "probably too high on drugs" to remember the gig's schedule.
Ventura stepped in to dispute the allegation and vehemently denied that she and Buendia were even
told of the schedule. The other three Eraserheads also believed the roadie's story, which disturbed
Buendia because he felt betrayed of their longstanding friendship. Buendia later announced to his
mates through SMS that he was quitting the group.[16]
In another interview, Marasigan said he was eating in SM Megamall, a local shopping mall, when he
heard of the news. He said he was "semi-surprised" and wondered if Zabala already knew about
it.[17] Adoro told of the story now famous among Eraserheads fans about Buendia's cryptic text
message. He said Buendia stated in the text message that he had already "graduated." Adoro
quipped in the same interview that it was natural for Buendia to graduate first, since he was in batch
'87 of their college (UP Diliman), while the rest were in batch '88.[17]
Zabala confessed in an interview that disbanding had not been that far away from the members'
minds. He said that there were many occasions when they could have disbanded but did not.[18]
Adoro expressed the belief of some people that the band was getting too old, and that it was "selfish"
for the band to continue, likely referring to comments about how it's time for other bands, besides
Eraserheads, to shine.[18] The band made it clear, though, that Buendia's departure from the band
wasn't in any way violent and that there was no shouting (sigawan) or any confrontation involved.[18]
The three remaining Eraserheads decided to continue. Within a few weeks, the
"new" Eheads debuted at Hard Rock Cafe in Makati City on April 19, featuring a female singer-
guitarist, Kris Gorra-Dancel, from the band, Fatal Posporos. However, after a few months, Adoro had
quit the band as well. The remaining members of the Eheads added Diego Mapa and Ebe Dancel to
their lineup and renamed their band, "Cambio".
Songs
Huling el bimbo with a smile ligaya
Toyang huwag kang matakot