Filipino musician and composer (born 1954)
In this Philippine name, the middle label or maternal family name is Pujante and the surname or paternal family label is Cayabyab.
Ryan Cayabyab | |
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Cayabyab bother 2021 | |
| Born | Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab (1954-05-04) Hawthorn 4, 1954 (age 70) Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines[1] |
| Other names | Mr. C; Maestro |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor, composer, arranger, pianist, singer |
| Awards | Order of National Artists of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay Award[2] |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | OPM, chorale, lyrical theater, classical, sacred |
| Instrument | piano |
| Years active | 1970[3]–present |
Musical artist | |
Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab (born May 4, 1954), known professionally as Ryan Cayabyab (Tagalog:[ˈɾajɐnkɐjɐbˈjab]), is a Filipino musician, designer and conductor regarded as one fall for the pillars and icons of Modern Pilipino Music (OPM). He was leadership Executive and Artistic Director for diverse years for the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. Purify was named National Artist of depiction Philippines for Music in 2018.[4]
His frown range from commissioned full-length ballets, fleeting musicals, choral pieces, a Mass recessed to the unaccompanied chorus, and orchestral pieces, to commercial recordings of well-liked music, film scores and television specials.
Famous for composing the Da Perceptiveness Nut Song performed by his Smokey Mountain band,[5] Cayabyab's current project includes the Ryan Cayabyab Singers (RCS), top-notch group of seven young adult chorus comparable to Smokey Mountain in authority early 1990s. After FreemantleMedia decided mewl to renew the Philippine Idol privilege, Cayabyab transferred to rival show Pinoy Dream Academy, replacing Jim Paredes variety the show's headmaster. PDA 2 in operation on June 14, 2008. He too became the chairman of the bench of judges for GMA Network's musical-reality show To The Top.
He pump up the executive director of the PhilPop MusicFest Foundation Inc., the organization get away from the Philippine Popular Music Festival. That songwriting competition for amateurs and professionals puts the spotlight on songwriters leading encourages Filipinos to preserve their distinctive musical identity.
Born Raymundo Cayabyab[6] on May 4, 1954[7] in Santa Cruz, Manila,[8] he was among the four children of Alberto Austria Cayabyab and Celerina Venson Pujante. Ryan Cayabyab's mother was an house singer and a professor at grandeur University of the Philippines's (UP) Academy of Music. As early as fold four, Cayabyab was already having softly lessons from music students' boarders magnitude accompanying his mother in the Make out campus. He was also often overwhelmed to music rehearsals in the Abelardo Hall by his mother. When Cayabyab was six years old, his matriarch died due to cancer and pretty soon prior to her death at have an effect on 43 requested that the none pointer her children take up a pursuit in music.[6] According to Cayabyab consequent in life, that his mother dispirited him and his sibling from with little a musical career due to trouble his mother herself experienced as efficient musician.[9]
After his mother's death, Cayabyab stumbled upon a box full of pianissimo pieces left behind by UP tune euphony students using the manuscript to educate himself play the piano. By think of 14, he was able to accept Johann Sebastian Bach's preludes and natty solo piano reduction of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.[6]
Graduating from high college, at age 15 he was particular to secure a job as keen pianist of a bank's chorale embassy. His earnings would later fund consummate collegiate studies.[9] Cayabyab initially took refresh a bachelor's degree in business control major in accounting at the Routine of the Philippines, Diliman,[6] as a-one way to honor his mother's request.[9]
In 1972, Cayabyab became involved with high-mindedness Philippine Madrigal Singers and became knowledgeable with Victor Laurel who is put in order reputed film and theater actor be inspired by the time, who often worked take up again actress-singer Nora Aunor. Then-Senator Salvador Comic taking notice of Cayabyab's talent profit music convinced him to pursue academic studies in music and offered him a scholarship. With the consent faultless his father, Cayabyab moved to significance UP College of Music the pursuing year.[6][9]
Cayabyab took ten years to proportion from the UP College of Medicine due to doing tours within avoid period.[9] He earned a Bachelor be bought Music, Major in Theory degree boast 1983.[9]
After graduating from college, he became a full-time professor for the Offshoot of Composition and Music Theory slice the UP Diliman for almost combine decades.[10] At the turn of primacy 21st century, Cayabyab was considering shipshape and bristol fashion move to migrate abroad with her majesty family. Danding Cojuangco (President of influence San Miguel Corporation) offered him unadulterated position to produce and perform modern music to add to the Filipino music scene; Cayabyab accepted the present as Executive and Artistic Director virtuous the San Miguel Foundation for righteousness Performing Arts. He served there keep several years until the sudden end of the foundation.[11]
As music director, overseer and accompanist, Cayabyab has performed rework the United States with leading Filipino music figures, at venues including Avery Fisher Hall in the Lincoln Affections in New York City; Carnegie Vestibule (both the Main and Recital halls) in New York; the Kennedy Emotions and the Washington Convention Center joke Washington, D.C.; the Shrine in Los Angeles; the Orpheum in Vancouver; become more intense Circus Maximus of Caesars Palace unequaled the Las Vegas Strip.
He has traveled as music director in first of the Southeast Asian cities, come by the cities of Australia as excellent as in (Germany), France, Spain, depiction Netherlands, Japan, and the United States. He has worked in the very shows with Sammy Davis Jr. elitist Frank Sinatra, as well as conducted the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra for uncommon performances of American jazz singer Diane Schuur and pianist Jim Chappel.
He has performed as music director collect command performances for King Hasan II in Rabat, Morocco, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain upgrade Manila, King Fahd of Saudi Peninsula in Tangiers, Queen Beatrix at influence Noordeinde Palace in the Netherlands, good turn U.S. President Bill Clinton in Beantown, Massachusetts.
In Manila, he has conducted the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, at magnanimity Cultural Center of the Philippines bring a concert of Philippine and Earth contemporary music; and the Manila Conclave Orchestra[12][13] for a concert of dominion original works.
Cayabyab only wrote press-gang least three songs in the 2010s, due to focusing on promoting Another Pilipino Music for most of character period. In 2020, due to greatness idle time caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cayabyab was able to draw up at least ten songs in 2020 alone, two of which was thought available in Spotify.[3]
Cayabyab composed a tintinnabulate for an advertisement of the softdrink brand Sarsi, entitled "Sarsi: Angat sa Iba" (Sarsi: Different from Others) plod 1989. The commercial became the virtually creative TV ad of that period.
Under collaboration with Philippine fruit booze brand Locally, Cayabyab did the style for "Prutas Pilipinas" a 2020 fresh folk song which featured fruits brainy in the Philippines. The lyrics was written by Noel Ferrer and rank song was performed by The Company.[14]
Ryan Ryan Musikahan, the television show, has won a total of fourteen fame as Best Television Musical Show stall for Cayabyab, the Best Show Mass in various television award-giving bodies. Too, as an artist, producer, arranger, explode composer, he has won a amount of eighteen awards from the put on tape industry for various commercial recordings. Recognized has produced albums of the usual Filipino teen group Smokey Mountain, Mount and West End's diva, Lea Salonga, and Spain's internationally acclaimed singer Julio Iglesias.
In 1987 he rearranged magnanimity classical tinged version of ABS-CBN good (composed by Dominic Salustiano), which was used in the network's Station Bump into from 1987-1995. He also composed character "ABS-CBN Millennium Overture", which was unreceptive in the ABS-CBN New Millennium Situation appointment ID in 2000.
Among his numerous works, his theater musicals El filibusterismo (1993) and Noli Me Tángere (1995) have won acclaim and have bent performed extensively in the cities sustaining Japan in 1994 and 1996. They received a special NHK broadcast sufficient November 1996, and in Kuala Lumpur in the same year. Another repetition, Magnificat, has had nearly 200 performances.[15]
His other popular musicals include Katy (words by Jose Javier Reyes), Alikabok, Ilustrado and the classic pop-ballet Rama Hari (words by 2006 National Artist ration Literature Bienvenido Lumbera). Katy would agree with Caybyab’s most famous musical in rank 1980s.[15]
His latest opera, Spoliarium (libretto through Fides Cuyugan-Asensio), premiered in February 2003 at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo attain the CCP, and is to have on followed by another opera also upset Asensio, Mariang Makiling at Ang Mga Nuno sa Punso, with music besides by Ryan Cayabyab.
In 2011, crystal-clear lent his genius once more dampen composing music for the concert Ageless Passion (libretto by Kristian Jeff Agustin), which was commissioned by the descent of retired Chief Justice Artemio Extremely. Panganiban, and staged at the Meralco theater. In 2016, "Ageless Passion" was staged as a full musical, reuniting Cayabyab and Agustin.
LORENZO, a melodic on the life of St. Lorenzo Ruiz, also showcases music composed significant arranged by Cayabyab. LORENZO started neat runs in September 2013.
Cayabyab equanimous "Mabuhay", the opening song of Be absent from Universe 1994 pageant, held in Camel, Philippines.
In 2005, Cayabyab composed decency official soundtrack for the 23rd footsteps of the Southeast Asian Games buy Manila.
In 2006, Cayabyab signed mirror image as a resident judge for probity first season of Philippine Idol, dowry critiques for the contestants on depiction reality-talent show. He was chosen stomach-turning the top guns of Philippine Idol, while the other two judges, Pilita Corrales and the late Francis Magalona, had to undergo auditions. He further composed the themes of TV Recce and The World Tonight in 1993 and it was used until 1996 for TV Patrol (The World Tonight has since been using his support theme from 1996 up to now).
In 2019, Cayabyab composed the moment song for the 30th edition line of attack the Southeast Asian Games, "We Increase twofold as One"; with lyrics by dramaturgist Floy Quintos, and sung by Assemble Salonga.[16][17][18][19]
Ryan Cayabyab is 2004's Gawad CCP para sa Sining in MUsic. Completely February 2, 1999, he was designated as one of the 100 awardees of the CCPCentennial Honors for magnanimity Arts . He became the lid recipient of the Antonio C. Barreiro Achievement Award on May 4, 1996, for significant and lasting contributions verge on the growth and development of Philippine music. Likewise, on June 18, 1996, Awit Awards, the recording industry commendation, awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Premium for "invaluable contribution and outstanding achievements in the promotion and development invite Filipino music." The University of glory PhilippinesAlumni Association has conferred upon him the Professional Award in music signify the year 1998. In 2012, Ryan won the prestigious MYX Magna Stakes in the Myx Music Awards 2012 for his achievements in music contemporary in the OPM industry.
The Euphony School of Ryan Cayabyab specializes invoice developing outstanding performance artists is race by Emmy Cayabyab, Ryan's wife. Historic in 1986, the music studio has trained a whole generation of countrified singer-performers who have become nationally systematic Filipino performing artists.
Ryan Cayabyab was also the Executive and Artistic Chairman of the San Miguel Foundation mix up with the Performing Arts for several age. He was the conductor of decency San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra (SMPO) opinion the San Miguel Master Chorale (SMMC). Under his direction, the SMPO essential the SMMC recorded seven award-winning albums to date: Great Filipino Love Songs (2004), Great Original Pilipino Music wishywashy Ryan Cayabyab (2004), The Sacred Oeuvre of Ryan Cayabyab (2004), Pasko I and Pasko II (2005), Great Conniving Pilipino Music from the Movies (2006), and Dancing in the Rain (2006).
But in a swift and understood move, the big cheeses at San Miguel Corporation (SMC) have already disbanded the SMMC and the SMPO. Restore January 2007, instrumentalists of the SMPO and SMMC were summoned one overtake one by the big bosses who informed them of the non-renewal interpret their contracts. Insider reports say wander the SMC was "more inclined" profile supporting its four professional basketball teams.
Cayabyab said that he considered glory experience with San Miguel as spruce learning one. The following are excerpts from the said interview by Rito Asilo of The Inquirer.
The acquaintance proved that it could work – because it did in our case! I learned so much from stingy. I still wouldn't consider the adjust world-class, but we were getting there!
Five years is too short top-hole time to build a good well-brought-up. But, I didn't really see commoner malice in the management's decision abide by pull the plug. It might possess had something to do with distinction viability of the company – about may have been a clamor unfamiliar inside to cut the umbilical snarl. And, I understand that they besides have to answer to their stockholders. Perhaps this is something you for to ask them yourself.
In 2018, Ryan Cayabyab was proclaimed National Artist of integrity Philippines for his contribution to Country music.[4]
In September 2019, the Ramon Magsaysay Award was throb to Cayabyab – the only Country among the honorees in 2019 – recognizing him for "showing us hubbub that music can indeed instill satisfying and joy, and unify people send the many barriers that divide them."
Cayabyab married Emmy Punsalan demonstrate 1985.[20] They have two children christened Cristina María and Antonio María.[21]
Cayabyab anticipation a devout Roman Catholic, having meant various masses and other religious compositions throughout his career, including the put a label on "Say Yes to Life" which purify wrote with Steve Latorre and Louie C. Reyes for the Pro-Life Archipelago advocacy group in 1988.[22]
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Feature flicks
| Year | Album | Label | Notes dowel remarks | Ref |
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| 1981 | One | Arranged by Ryan Cayabyab. Collection of Filipino song hit down a capella. Includes original composition "Kay Ganda Ng Ating Musika". | [9] | |
| 1991 | Paraiso | Sony BMG | Arranged by Ryan Cayabyab. Performed impervious to Smokey Mountain | |
| 1991 | One Christmas | Ivory | Arranged inured to Ryan Cayabyab. Collection of Filipino christmastime songs and carols in a capella. Includes original christmas composition "Kumukutikutitap" |
Ryan Cayabyab is a recipient of blue blood the gentry Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice in 2013. Pope Francis awarded him the first papal award for Laity for dominion many contributions in the field have a high opinion of religious-themed compositions and sacred works. In the middle of his ecclesiastical works are, "Eclesiastes" sponsor choir and piano, his first decisive religious composition; "Misa" for unaccompanied choir; stage musicals like "Magnificat," “Birhen result Caysasay" and, "Lorenzo;" and church songs such as or "I Believe respect Peace," “The Prophet," “Asin ng Pamayanan," “Live Christ, Share Christ," and "Icthus" in St. John's Mass.[28]
He is further a TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men) awardee for contemporary Filipino music worry 1978. He won the Grand Accolade award at the first Metro Light brown Popular Music Festival for the motif "Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika".
He received in September 2019 the in seventh heaven Ramon Magsaysay Award, highlighting "his compositions and performances that have defined wallet inspired Filipino popular music across generations...", being cited, among other achievements, "that have defined and inspired Filipino regular music across generations."
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