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R&B has long held a multifaceted, evolving place in the creative ecosystem of the Philippines, where creators across the country’s vast island chain have drawn from the core structures of the genre to build work that speaks to the specific cultural currents that shape artistic practice across the nation. The sound Pangako emerges from this longstanding tradition of Filipino R&B, a lineage that stretches back decades of creators reimagining the genre’s core to fit the unique creative impulses that define music making in the country. Unlike any narrow framing of R&B as a monolithic form, the work created by Filipino artists working in the genre carries the weight of the country’s diverse cultural influences, the mix of indigenous and global traditions that bleed into every strand of the Philippine creative arts, from visual art to literature to film, and most notably to recorded sound.
