Name: Sabungan by Emil Sanglay and Pen-Pen
Duration: 4 min 22 s
Description: 1st Awit Awards Nominee for Best Folk Pop Performance

Ever watched the movie 'Cool Runnings' where a Jamaican bobsled team managed to bag a medal in the Winter Olympics? A similar story unfolded in 2013 when a group of Filipinos managed to beat the USA, Hong Kong and Japan, to place third in the most prestigious solar carting race, which was held in Adelaide in 2013. Listen to the interview by guest host Romy Cayabyab in this extract of the October 25, 2013 program. #samanakayo

Sandigan Flashback: Filipinos in top three of Solar carting Race

1st Awit Awards Nominee for Best Folk Pop Performance


Sabungan

is considered as the Father of Neo-Ethnic Music in the Philippines. His greatest contribution to the music industry is the introduction of the popularization of neo-ethnic rock in the late 1970s along with his band, Pen-Pen. Most of his compositions bear environmental protection, nationalism, humanity, good governance and promotion of peace as themes.

Sanglay's professional music career started when Vicor Records released his song "Pen-Pen de Sarapen" in 1978. He was a recording artist of Ivory Records, CCP artist (Outreach and Exchange Program) and one of the main cast of Lapu-lapu, a multi-lingual neo-ethno classical-rock opera. 
Emil Sanglay received multiple awards for his compositions and singing. Together with Sanglay's group Penpen, they have been credited for many innovations and are considered experimentalists; Pen-Pen and Sanglay are well known for their musical style that integrated the sounds of Filipino indigenous instruments with modern pop music.

Sabungan

Emil Sanglay and Pen-Pen

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