Sk8 or die

She looked up Kapwa and her heart woke up.

It squashes then stomps on it then boosts the sub frequencies and squashes it all again

Aga Mayo Butocan trained a generation’s worth of kulintang players coming from UP Diliman. She developed cypher notation still used by many today and does not let a student get away with bad habits especially in posture. Her playing style is lively, smooth, & melodic.

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Tusa Montes is the go-to session musician in Manila when a project calls for quality kulintang, working with artists like Nadine Lustre and Mishka Adams. As an educator she has trained a generation of World Music practitioners at UP Diliman or from workshops far and wide.

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Brubeck lived in the region I grew up

Titania Buchholdt may be the most prolific kulintang player in America, studying, performing, teaching, and touring kulintang music since the beginning of the contemporary Filipino American arts movement. Her style is commanding & she holds an unmatched depth of stories.

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Leslie Damaso introduces kulintang kundiman jazz to the Midwest with her double album Sirena which was also considered for a Grammy.

She reflects on her experience developing her sound on the frontier before performing to the Filipinx community at #GongstersParadise

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I didn’t whip or nene

Motivated to find the same misfortune

Caroline Julia Cabading keeps kulintang, jazz, blues, and Kalinga music alive on the streets of old Manilatown in San Francisco.

Her album Sugilanon weaves all these music styles together wrapped around a Filipina American story and was considered for a Grammy.

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Kim Kalanduyan holds a family tradition of kulintang music despite living thousands of miles from kulintang country.

Received with joyous ovation, she non-verbally announces her homecoming in Mindanao and pledges herself to the Kalanduyan tradition of master musicianship.

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That’s pretty much where this current interest exploded