Maybe you have to be in your mid-20s to mid-30s to be affected about Francis Magalona "going home".
To today's teenagers, he may not even ring a bell. Except if you have a crush on her daughter, Maxene = )
Old school? But he is cool!
He is cool because he stood up and did something about what he saw. He wasn't satisfied in being just a critic. He became one of the answers to the problems he saw. He made people care. He made people remember. He made people dance. He made people sing. He made people better.
If you listen to his music and get pass through the sound experience and get to the heart of the songs, you'll hear that he is reminding us of a truth. A truth that we are a great race! A much greater race than what the colonizers wants us to believe! And if you go to his blog, www.magalona.com, you will read in some of his entries what you hear from his songs that this man is a Man from Manila. And proud to be one!
The Man from Manila and to sing about that fact and to be proud, full of spunk and attitude in belting it is a song why songs are written.
I went through similar emotions when I heard Bamboo's "Hoy, Pinoy ako!" for the first time. Both songs came from the same inspired truth. Both songs are siblings in intent, in attitude and in heart!
Lord, may you raise up more Filipino artist from the same inspired line of Francis M.
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