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Did you know?
-Ryan Cayabyab's mother was an opera singer and a professor at the University of the Philippines's (UP) College of Music.
-Danding Cojuangco (President of San Miguel Corp.) offered him a position to produce and perform new music to add to the Philippine music scene.
- he became a full-time professor for the Department of Composition and Music Theory in the UP Diliman for almost two decades.
-Cayabyab composed a jingle for an advertisement of a softdrink brand Sarsi, entitled "Sarsi: Angat sa Iba" (Sarsi: Different from Others) in 1989.
-his theater musicals El filibusterismo (1993) and Noli Me Tángere (1995) have won acclaim and have been performed extensively in the cities of Japan in 1994 and 1996.
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Awards
-Awit Award for Best Ballad Recording (2016)
-Awit Award for Best Musical Arrangement (2007)
-Awit Award for Best Christmas Recording (2006)
-Awit Award for People's Choice Favorite Artist (2005)
-Awit Award for Best Song Written for Movie/TV/Stage Play (1998)
His musical output consists of several masses, award winning film and television scores, short symphonic works, ten full-length Filipino musicals, a major opera, full length ballets, solo and instrumental works, orchestrations of Filipino folk, popular and love songs, three one-man (he provided all 16 voices) a cappella song albums, and scores of popular songs sung by top Filipino recording artists.
-Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab
-May 4, 1954
-Manila
-at age 15 he was able to secure a job as a pianist of a bank's chorale group. His earnings would later fund his collegiate studies. Cayabyab initially took up a bachelor's degree in business administration major in accounting at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, as a way to honor his mother's request.
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Ryan Cayabyab
