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Artist
Bullet Dumas
12+ albums
OPMphilippinessinger-songwriterfolkFilipino
about
Influence is a funny thing. Generally, it is what defines you as a musician and forms part of your DNA. You listen to the blues, for example, and you end up either a blues musician or there will be blues licks in your playing, singing or writing. So what happens when you count Broadway and Disney musicals, classical, jazz, world, rock, and everything else you fancy as qualifiers for your creativity and decide to just use your voice and an acoustic guitar? You become Bullet Dumas, and you distill all that information into something that is absolutely unique: propulsive strummed open tunings, odd metered rhythms, and catchy melodies delivered with a soaring vocal timbre. You are different, and the audience always knows it’s you. “Once I like a particular song/sound, regardless of the genre, then that’s it I would love the song/artist. Although I pretty much diverted from the trend all the time.” Bullet started out at age 12 learning Rivermaya’s “Elesi” and the Eraserheads’ “Pare Ko” through a friend KC Tan who would eventually become his high school bandmate. “Music was a pastime, “ he says, “The usual thing: you steal a time of your day playing the guitar and learning music. I started writing songs when i was in 3rd year HS. In 4th year college, KC invited me to be a vocalist for a band called Pruweba; i started writing decent songs from thereon.” He found himself in Dumaguete for the first ever 7101 Music NAtion Elements Singer/Songwriter Camp in 2009. “They let me perfor
