Episodes

Rey Valera wrote some of his most famous melodies sitting among headstones in a Bulacan cemetery, because it was the quietest place a broke young man could find.

Forty-three years after Freddie Aguilar wrote “Anak,” a boy band answered him.

A song called “Halik” opens with a vocal that most singers save for the final chorus, and for over twenty-five years Filipinos have been using it to prove they can sing.

The song the Philippines knows as “Harana” was originally titled “Isang Munting Harana,” a humble little serenade, and even that name got lost in the chain of friends who passed it along.

FlipMusic, the production house behind “Pantropiko,” started in 2009 as two bandmates with a home catalog and a plan to share their music until somebody paid attention.

Before “Tatsulok” ever appeared on a Buklod album, it lived on a human rights anthology called *Karapatang Pantao*, pressed in 1989 by the Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace and the label Dyna Products.

In October 2025, Geneva Cruz returned to the Smokey Mountain neighborhood in Tondo and sang “Paraiso” for five hundred residents fighting to keep the ground the song was written about.

Before Hotdog gave Manila its anthem, the Garcia brothers lost a recording deal in Honolulu because they didn’t have a single original song to play.

Somewhere in the first verse of “Ang Huling El Bimbo,” a girl is compared to Paraluman, and the real Paraluman was born with the name Sigrid Sophia Agatha de Torres von Giese.

The music video was censored on Philippine television in 1986 and age-restricted on YouTube thirty-six years later, and neither time made the song any quieter.