1st VisPop Winners to Rock the Cebuano Music Scene
The new voice of Cebuano music has finally arrived, thanks to VisPop!
The very 1st Visayan Pop Music Festival or VisPop was held at Benedicto College Artists Hall last May 18, 2013.
Out of the 80 entries that were submitted last year, 6 entries were chosen to join the finals.
Here are the VisPop Winners
The entry which emerged as the grand winner is “Duyog” which was written and performed by Jewel & Joe Edward Villaflores. Aside from bagging the top prize, they also received the Best Interpreter Award and the People’s Choice Award by MOR.
In second place is “Laylay” by Lourdes Maglinte, which also received the Bisayaa Uy Special Award as chosen by Artist Ko. This award was given to the song with the best lyrics in the competition.
In third place is the catchy and cute “Balay Ni Mayang,” a duet written by Marianne Dungog and Kyle Wong.
For having the most fierce song, “Historias” of Alphecca Perpetua received the Pinaka Fighter award as chosen by Fighter Wine.
VisPop made sure that the winners are deserving of the title so the organizers invited honored guests to serve as judges. The famous Gary Granada (board member of FILSCAP), multi-awarded Cebuana singer Anna Fegi, and Nelia Navarro (DTI Director) completed the panel of judges.
VisPop Tagline
Boasting the very catchy tagline “Bisayaa Uy!”, VisPop aspires to uplift the recent condition of Cebuano music as heard on the radio through the introduction of cultivated and polished playlists. The organizers also emphasized that VisPop is not like any other competition because it is also a songwriting contest.
The Organizers of VisPop
The people behind the successful 1st leg of VisPop are the Artists & Musicians Marketing Coperative or Artist Ko. The members of Artist Ko are Cattski Espina, Jude Gitamonodc, Insoy Ninal, and Ian Zafra. VisPop was also made possible with the help of Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers or FILSCAP.
To get more information, you may visit the official website of VisPop or you can like the Facebook Fan Page of Artist Ko.
VISPOP winning pieces and banner songs can be heard over the internet via SoundCloud.
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