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Euro Pop champion Ryan Tamondong now a Star Music artist

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He was the grand prix champion at the 2015 Euro Pop Berliner Perle. Now, Ryan Tamondong is a full-fledged recording star. Last week, Star Music in which he has signed finally released his eponymous debut album under the label. 

Tamondong was first seen in ABS-CBN’s I Can See Your Voice. He ranked second place in one of the mystery music game show’s episodes.

Euro Pop champion Ryan Tamondong now a Star Music artist
 From left: Ryan Tamondong, Star Music audio content head Jonathan Manalo, and manager Joel Mendoza

Ryan, a student at the UST Conservatory of Music, is currently promoting his single, the pop song “Haay Pag-ibig,” a tune that can easily be appreciated by his fellow millennials. His manager, also a songwriter, Joel Mendoza penned the ditty.  

He is also one of the artists in Star Music YouTube channel’s OPM Refreshed, featuring his live rendition of the OPM classic “Sana Ay Ikaw Na Nga.” The Basil Valdez original by Cecile Azarcon Inocentes is also in Ryan’s five-track compilation. 

Other must-hear tracks in the album are new material, like “Ikaw Ang Panaginip” and “Ako’y Minamahal Mo Pa Rin,” also by Mendoza, and “Since You Went Away” by Mendoza and Vehnee Saturno.   

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Tamondong is the first Asian to join and win the prestigious Euro Pop Berliner Perle grand prix championship in Germany. He eventually became the International Achievement Awardee of the 29th Awit Awards for this milestone.  

You can listen and download Ryan’s songs from digital music portals. 

For more details, visit starmusic.ph, like Star Music on facebook.com/starmusicph, and follow on Twitter and Instagram @ StarMusicPH.

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Pinoy Playlist 2018 launched

For six days – Oct. 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20, the BGC Arts Center will hold a landmark festival: Pinoy Playlist 2018, Ito ay Atin, Sariling Atin.

Made possible with the support of Sun Life Foundation, it will be the first of an annual Music Festival curated by Ryan Cayabyab, Moy Ortiz, and Noel Ferrer. 

The festival gathers great music being generated and appreciated in pockets of ages and places, showcase them, and hopefully serve to inspire the collective rise of Filipino music.

Pinoy Playlist will reinvigorate the tradition of Filipino music by exposing the breadth and range of Filipino musicality across time, from vocal groups, solo, bands, classic, indigenous, pop, and collaborations in between these forms of musicality, to celebrate the evolving nature of Filipino music. The matrix of Filipino music will shine in its variety and blaze with the talent of artists across generations.

Pinoy Playlist 2018, Ito ay Atin, Sariling Atin is a labor of love of the Pinoy Playlist curators of whom the BGC Arts Center is immensely proud and grateful to be working with. 

BGC Arts Center Head of Content, Maria Isabel Garcia maintains this would not have happened without those who care for Pinoy music with their lives: “The BGC Arts Center is passionately committed to create and celebrate Filipino stories of creativity and there is nothing like music to inhabit those stories. We applaud the passion and work of our curators and the over 100 Filipino musicians and production teams who finely tuned into the Pinoy Playlist idea and contribute to the evolving tapestry of Pinoy Music.”

Tickets ranging from P375 to P2,250 are now available at all TicketWorld outlets and website: www.ticketworld.com.ph.

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Student films to vie for first ORMIN IFF prize

Four short films from the Far Eastern University Department of Communication will compete in the student division of the inaugural Oriental Mindoro International Film Festival from Nov. 15 to 17.

Trisha Marie Antonio’s Dama (Checkers), Angela Aguila and One Carlo Diaz’s Kumari, Juan Pablo Pineda III’s Pua Iyam (Coming Out) and Daryll Jameson Apaga’s Retrospektib (Retrospective) will compete along with other short films from the Philippines, Brazil, France, Iran, and Russia.  

“Joining this contest means a lot to me since Oriental Mindoro is my mom’s birthplace, so the possibility of being given the privilege to visit the place after a decade away from it thrills me. Of course, the fact that our film has been shortlisted is another thing, more like an honor to my whole group and to the people behind it,” Antonio shared.

Dama, which tells the story of a father (Rolando Inocencio) who adopts a stray child (Kyle Kaizer Almenanza) to cope with his son’s death in a crisis-ridden world earlier bagged the Best Production Design and Best Actor for Inocencio at the 15th annual DLSU Indie Un-Film Festival.

Meanwhile, Diaz, who also co-wrote Kumari with Aguila, said that it’s a huge honor to have it shown on a bigger platform. “It’s done with so much passion and hard work, so for every opportunity, it gets outside university, I’d always feel very fulfilled and proud.”

In Kumari, Anna (Arjelyn Apolonio) comes from a family of ballet dancers and her mother (Fe Saligumba) is her avid supporter. Caught in the middle of tradition, fear, and love, she makes the biggest choice that she will ever make in her life.

In Retrospektib, three activists try to escape the atrocities of the narkos regime at the height of Martial Law. Jay (Julio Garcia) persuades Boyong (David Paul Farma) and Ramon (Renz Silverio) to travel in time with the help of a faith healer, Mang Jun (Kuya Bata). Little do they know that they are in for a big surprise in the present era. The satirical film previously won third prize at the Active Vista short film competition.

Finally, in Pua Iyam (Coming Out), a Filipino-Chinese student (Rowi Du) discovers his true identity and feelings for his childhood friend (Raphael Cruz). The film won at FEU’s Sinepiyu 2017, CineSB 7, Piling Obrang Vidyo XIV, CineMapúa 2018 and 9th Largabista, and was cited at the first Palawan International Film Festival.  

The first ORMIN IFF, which features ecological, sociological, and anthropological films that are focused on indigenous people and cultures, gender equality, and issues on environmental awareness, is organized by Dr. Carl Balita Productions and the Provincial Government of Oriental Mindoro in cooperation with the Commission on Higher Education.

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