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Hanggang Wakas (Duet With Hazami)
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About this Song
R&B’s global spread has long depended on its ability to meld core structural and thematic throughlines with the specific cultural identities of the communities that create and embrace it, a flexibility that has turned the genre from a regional American sound into a universal language for storytelling that resonates with listeners across every continent. No corner of the world has embraced this potential as consistently, or as thrillingly, as the Philippines, where a generation of artists have reworked R&B’s core preoccupations to fit the unique cultural nuances of their home, creating a body of work that feels both instantly familiar to longstanding fans of the genre and entirely rooted in the context that spawned it.
