Ryan Cayabyab Info

Ryan Cayabyab

Music

-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.

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.

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