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A people's thanks for just being a composer

Music-loving Filipinos often like to say that so and so an artist or a band's discography constitutes the soundtrack of their lives. Strictly speaking, the credit is only true for a handful of OPM artists — or maybe less — who composed all their hits and releases themselves because what we often forget is that before a song can even be sung, it all begins with the gift of a composer.