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Artist
Francis Magalona
12+ albums
rockalternativeOPMHip-HopFilipino
about
A sibling amongst nine brothers and sisters, Francis Magalona was the son of late Philippine movie screen legends Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran. Starting out as a breakdancer in the early 1980s, he followed in his parents footsteps and ventured out into acting, appearing in several Filipino movies; he branched out to emceeing and released the groundbreaking album Yo! in 1990 garnering the nationistic hit Mga Kababayan (My Countrymen), making Yo! the first commercially released Pinoy rap album in the Philippines.[1] While rapping politically conscious and thought-provoking rhymes in both English and Tagalog, the album was a total success and helped instantly catapult Filipino hip hop from underground to mainstream status and also marked the birth of Makabayang or Nationalistic rap in Filipino hip hop. Francis M. remains one of the most respected emcees within Pinoy Rap In 1992, Francis Magalona released Rap Is FrancisM (1992), which is highly regarded as one of the greatest Pinoy Rap albums. With tracks addressing the various cultural and social problems that plagued his country such as drug addiction in "Mga Praning" (Paranoia), political instability in "Halalan" (Elections) as well as the detrimental effects of a colonial mentality in "Tayo'y Mga Pinoy" (We Are Filipinos), the record's complexity and conscious message quickly earned it its classic status and became the standard by which future albums of the genre were to be compared.[2] The release of his third album, "Me
top songs
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Kaleidoscope World
7702Cold Summer Nights
6113Girl Be Mine
2414Cold Summer Nights (1997 Digital Remaster)
2255Tayo'y Mga Pinoy (1997 Digital Remaster)
2186Three stars and a sun
1877Superproxy 2K6
1828Man From Manila (1997 Digital Remaster)
1809Meron Akong Ano! (1997 Digital Remaster)
15910Tayo'y mga pinoy
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