I find it exciting to hear and read about the accomplishment of Pilipino heritage and what they have done and being noticed and awarded for their efforts. I am truly blessed to say that I am proud to be a filipina born to wonderful parents whose heritage goes back to Spaniards, German and Irish roots. Today we have grown to multitude that its impossible just to have a get together, but we need a huge park or even maybe the Yankee or Wembley stadium to accommodate all of us! Thanks again goes to Good News Pilipinas for this article!
Acoustic singer Apryle Dalmacio is shining in America’s music industry. She is not only talented but also a big winner after recently bagging two major awards at the 2009 Inland Empire Music Awards.
She took home the Best Country and Female Artist Award at the 5th Annual Inland Empire Music Awards that took place at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside.
According to the music critics “It is her powerful, dynamic, and expressive voice that has successfully brought her this far.”
Apryle is currently working on her Debut Album “On The Other Side” with Indepth Music.
Apryle is a self taught singer/songwriter who has been on stage all her life dreaming that some day her music will inspire and captivate listeners and viewers across the world.
She has had the opportunity to be a guest, and have her music air on radio stations such as KUCR 88.3fm with DJ Tina Bold, IE Coffee Radio KCAA 1050am with Ralph Torres, and Inland Empire’s talk radio KTIE 590am with Coffee General Cliff Young, Cut N Dry Talent Radio with Chris Kalt and has even starred in her own radio show as a DJ for Cal State San Bernardino’s Coyote Radio.
She has performed at the opening celebration of the “Musical Instruments Fall Folk Fest” sponsored by Best Buy at Riverside Plaza, the “Acoustic Rock Fest” sponsored by America’s Automobile Company Fritts Ford, and has had the honor to humbly perform for charity events including The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life!
In 2007, she came home as a third place winner from a “Battle of the Bands” held in one of L.A.’s most famous venues BB Kings Blues Club at Universal City Walk. In 2008 she performed with several awarding female artists from across Southern California in the Female Acoustic Showcase and competed as one of the top 7 finalists for the Upland Lemon Festival Idol.
Apryle has had a wide experience performing and singing all her life. At the tender age of eight, Apryle received her very first guitar handed down from her mother who also played in her youth.
“She has been singing since she was born,” Apryle’s mother says, “Apryle was the loudest baby. You could hear her across the hallway. The surprised nurse asked me if that was my baby crying and I replied ‘yes’. But she was not crying, she was singing.”
It was not until Apryle’s thirteenth birthday when playing the guitar became a passion. Wrapped up in a ribbon was a beautiful vintage acoustic Aspen awaiting her arrival from school. Since then, Apryle has been writing songs and expressing her inner-self through the gift of music.
From elementary school through college, this young musician has been involved in choir and has developed a great amount of intelligence in music. She has passionately been involved in various music groups throughout her life: The multi-award-winning JVHS Chamber Singers in which Apryle co-student directed, Sweet Adeline, the CSUSB Vocal Jazz Show Choir, and world touring CSUSB Chamber Singers. At age seventeen she was one out of 2,000 students chosen to sing in the Southern California Vocal Association Honor Choir and received a music scholarship her senior year of high school.
Now in her early twenties, Apryle continues to share her talents as she and her music progress.
I love Black Eyed Peas – and Apl songs that has been recorded with their album is ROCKING! I can’t wait to see the next video…So in looking for news about pilipinas – I came across this story that I thought it was great to share.. so if there any talented artist out there, and if would like your music heard – go to NAB RADIO – we are an independent internet radio station that supports ALL Indie artists and you never know, you might just great music you didn’t you liked! Thanks to Pocholo Concepcion for the story…
apl.de.ap, the Fil-Am member of the internationally famous hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, has always been proud of his Pinoy roots.
In BEP albums, the 34-year-old apl (Allan Pineda Lindo) contributes songs that reflect the
culture he grew up with as a child in Sapang Bato, Angeles, Pampanga.
“Elephunk,” BEP’s third release (2003) and first commercially successful album, contained “The Apl Song”—whose recollection of living in hard times starts off with the first stanza of Asin’s “Balita.”
Two years later, “Monkey Business” yielded the upbeat “Bebot,” Apl’s first attempt to write and rap with all-Tagalog lyrics.
The group’s current album, “The E.N.D.,” which is riding high on two chart-topping singles (“Boom Boom Pow,” “I Gotta Feeling”), has a deluxe edition containing another apl tune, “Mare.”
Recently, apl hooked up with Department of Tourism Secretary Joseph Durano to discuss how music could help enhance DOT’s promotional campaigns.
The result is “Take Me to the Philippines,” a music video that apl wrote, recorded and produced—and which the DOT is launching on MTV.
Members of the media, including the Inquirer, is getting a sneak preview of the video this morning at the Ascott Raffles Place. Apl is in Singapore with BEP for the “F1 Rocks” music festival which also features ZZ Top, No Doubt and Simple Minds, among others. (A full story on the video, including an interview with apl and Durano, will follow.)
Apl has also set up Jeepney Music, his own talent management outfit which currently handles DJs in the US, but is also on the lookout for local acts.
(Story courtesy of the Philippines Daily Inquirer)
There was a bad storm that hit the Philippines and there were alot of people killed or hurt by this storm and there heroes too! These group of individuals helped to get some of the people that were victims of the flooding that was caused by this storm. It was a typhoon called “Ondoy” that wreck havoc to many lives and just want to congratulate these members of the Dragon Boat… THANK YOU! Well done! The story was published Good News Pilipinas!
The Philippine Coast Guard called in the services of their 12 personnel who are members of the country’s dragonboat team.
“We need strong people who could row… against the strong flood currents in order to reach the people in distress,” PCG spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Armand Balilo said.
He admitted that the floodwaters and the devastation brought about by typhoon “Ondoy” proved to be a challenge for them.
“This was the first time that we had to load rubber boats on the Light Rail Transit trains in order to get to Marikina,” he said. The rescue team could not travel on the ground because many vehicles and other obstructions littered the roads.
PCG commandant Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo ordered that lifeboats hanging on PCG vessels be used. The PCG Auxiliary and the Aboitiz Transport Service Corp. also lent equipment for rescue operations.
The PCG, in going to Cainta, Rizal, utilized Maritime Environmental Protection Command (Marpol) trucks and their military M-35 trucks to transport PCG personnel to the area.
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