A few years ago, Johnny Marr picked the three guitarists who influenced his playing the most: Bert Jansch, Nile Rodgers and ...

Ahead of the Miss World 2025 coronation night, the Philippine representative dropped a cover of “Rainbow,” a classic OPM song originally by South Border. Krishnah put her own twist on it, turning the ...

Filipino singer-songwriter Freddie Aguilar ... often tackling social issues through song. In the 1980s, he lent his voice to the People Power Movement that overthrew then-dictator Ferdinand Marcos, ...

It is also the only Filipino song translated into 51 languages. His rendition of "Bayan Ko" became the anthem of the opposition during the 1986 People Power Revolution, cementing his place as a ...

Performing in folk clubs and bars, he developed a style influenced by Western artists like Cat Stevens and James Taylor, blending it with Filipino folk traditions. In 1978, Aguilar wrote "Anak," a ...

Aguilar rose to global fame in 1978 with his song “Anak” (meaning child), a heartfelt ballad about family and regret. It quickly became a massive hit — not just in the Philippines, but across the ...

Fans around the world are in shock over the news that Freddie Aguilar, the legendary Filipino folk singer-songwriter ... and shot to international fame in the late 1970s with the iconic song “Anak” ...