The only way for Filipino musicians to break into the global music industry is by writing songs in their own language, National Artist and Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Ryan Cayabyab has said.
Cayabyab has begun collaborating with songwriters in the islands of Visayas and Mindanao and lately Luzon to compose pop songs in their own language, and the results have been awe-inspiring.
“We’ve discovered a lot more creative and beautiful songs coming from the Visayas using the Visayan language, coming from Mindanao using Ilonggo,” he told 33 young leaders from Asia during the NextGen Leadership Program organized by the Ramon Magsaysay Transformative Leadership Institute.
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