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Fresh Revival New OPM Albums

If you love Original Pilipino Music, especially the 90’s and 80’s songs as well as the Foreign 80’s and 90’s songs, expect a fresh revival of these songs on your favorite leading music store nationwide through a fresh OPM albums dedicated for them made by the singer-composer Ogie Alcasid, Nonoy Zuniga and Ms. Kyla.

Mr. Ogie Alcasid’s album is dedicated to the Filipino composer George Canseco, whose work as a great Filipino composer brings light to the Filipino music industry then. Most of his compositions which Mr. Ogie ALcasid’s revive, are Basil Valdez’s “Kastilyong Buhanging” and “Hanggang Sa Dulo Ng Walang Hanggan”; Kuh Ledesma’s “Dito Ba?” and “Paano Kita Mapasasalamatan?”;Sharon Cuneta’s “Kahapon Lamang,”Langis at Tubig” and “Ikaw”;and Junior’s “Yakap”

Nonoy Zuniga’s album includes “All The Way”, “I Don’t Wanna Love You”, “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”, “Smile” and other songs.

While Kyla’s album includes “Say that You Love Me”, ”Hangganng Ngayon”, ”One Day In  Your Life”, and “I Don’t Want You To Go”, and many other compilation of songs because her album contains 28 tracks.

These are just three of the famous Filipino singers that try to revive the old music then through their revival albums. For there are already Filipino singers which has revival albums like Jed Madela, Erik Santos,Rachel Ann Go, and many young Filipino singers doing a revival album. Actually, before the albums of Ogie Alcasid, Nonoy Zuniga and Kyla hits the music stores, Jed Madela’s revival albums already rules the top seller list of OPM albums.

Has Original Pilipino Music Died?

For me Original Pilipino Music or OPM never died or whatever dying state some Filipinos who illusion it or as they trying to imply. Actually, it evolves and become revolutionary only from its one note tone into variety of music genre: ballad, jazz, rhythm and blues, pop, rock, and alternative.

Perhaps, these Filipinos who illusion when they said Original Pilipino Music have died is the arise of English Pilipino Songs in the Pinoy Music Industry to compete with foreign English songs in the music market or the absence of all Tagalog songs or the absence of proudly multi-language songs of Pilipino like Cebuano songs, Kapampangan songs, Visayan Songs, etc. in the music market.

Yeah, there is an absence of these kinds of songs in Philippine Music Industry as well as in the Pinoy music market today virtually, but any Pilipino composer could make it anyway in the music market if one composes like Cebuano songs or Kapampangan Songs. Actually, there are some songs like these in the music market today like the Kapampangan songs:” Atin Ku Pung Singsing” and “Oh Jo Kaluguran Daka”, which in fairness becomes a hit though it has Kapampangan lyrics.

The only problem why some Pilipino composers doesn’t preoccupied much of composing songs like pure Cebuano, Chavacano, etc. because sometimes they do not click on Pilipino masses and their investment in composing and making an album for such Pilipino songs does not have a good rate of return neither a breakeven profit.

Actually, the only thing that will make Original Pilipino Music or OPM succumb to death is if the composers do not concur to the present day music needs and preferences of modern day Pilipino by eliminating the English Pilipino songs in the music market and replace them with all Tagalog or multi-language Pilipino songs like Cebuano, Kapampangan, etc.