MANILA, Philippines — National Artist and Original Pilipino Music (OPM) icon Ryan Cayabyab is among the recipients of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, considered as Asia’s Nobel Prize. Cayabyab was chosen for “nurturing the gift and unifying power of music,” the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation said in its website. “In electing Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab to receive the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the board of trustees recognizes his compositions and performances that have defined and inspired Filipino popular music across generations; his indomitable, undeterred confidence to selflessly seek, mentor and promote young Filipino musical genius for the global stage; and his showing us all that music can indeed instill pride and joy, and unify people across the many barriers that divide them,” the foundation said. Born in Manila as 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… Read full this story
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