Ryan cayabyab filipino composer biography
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Ryan Cayabyab
Early life and education
Born Raymundo Cayabyab on May 4, 1954 in Santa Cruz, Manila, he was among the four children of Alberto Austria Cayabyab and Celerina Venson Pujante. Ryan Cayabyab's mother was an musikdrama singer and a professor at the University of the Philippines's (UP) College of Music. As early as age four, Cayabyab was already having piano lessons from music students' boarders while accompanying his mother in the UP campus. He was also often brought to music rehearsals in the Abelardo Hall bygd his mother. When Cayabyab was six years old, his mother died due to cancer and shortly prior to her death at age 43 requested that the none of her children take up a career in music. According to Cayabyab later in life, that his mother discouraged him and his sibling from pursuing a musical career due to hardship his mother herself experienced as a musician.
After his mother's death, Cayabyab stumbled upon a box full of piano pieces left behi
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Cayabyab, Raymundo Pujante
In a country known for its rich musical culture and blessed with a surfeit of musical talent, to stand out as singular and indispensable is truly outstanding. In the Philippines today such a musical leader is RAYMUNDO “RYAN” PUJANTE CAYABYAB.
Born in Manila, one of four siblings, RYAN’s father was a government employee, his mother an opera singer and music teacher. Though the family’s circumstances were modest, theirs was a home filled with music, particularly since his mother took in music students as boarders. Everyone in the house seemed to be either singing or playing an instrument, and RYAN grew up listening to classical music, opera arias, and traditional native songs. Heeding his mother’s admonitions to shun the musician’s financially unrewarding career, RYAN took up a business management course, but to help pay for his university studies he took on side jobs as pianist or accompanist for musical artists. The parents of one such artist were s
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Ryan Cayabyab
Filipino musician and composer (born 1954)
In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Pujante and the surname or paternal family name is Cayabyab.
Ryan Cayabyab | |
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Cayabyab in 2021 | |
| Born | Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab (1954-05-04) May 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, musical 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, composer and conductor regarded as one of the pillars and icons of Original Pilipino Music (OPM). He