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“The Man Can Sing Anything.”
There are eleven million Filipinos working overseas, a million of which left the Philippines in 2007, and Arnel Pineda is one of them.
I’m sure you readers have already heard about Arnel Pineda, the new Philippine-born lead singer for the American band Journey: his hardscrabble life as a homeless twelve-year old with that burning talent; the [...] -
Tongues Like Parrots
The next time you’re on a cruise ship — or in a small nightclub in Las Vegas, a hotel lounge in Singapore, an amusement park in Cologne — that band doing the Norah Jones and Led Zeppelin covers will very likely be from the Philippines. (Almost 60,000 Filipinos are employed worldwide in nightclubs, cruise ships, [...]
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What Asians Listen To
Someone left an anonymous comment on my other blog last week, saying (in all caps) “HIP HOP IS THE VOICE OF THE FILIPINO AMERICAN YOUTH HAHAHAHA.” I wasn’t sure what the person was specifically writing about, but it reflected, probably fairly accurately, what many Pinoys in my generation listen to.