Song
Manila, I Love Manila
About this Song
The Philippines’ longstanding folk music tradition carries the layered identities of its thousands of islands, weaving together narratives of home, belonging, and the intimate connections people forge to the places that shape their lives. At the heart of many of these narratives, for communities across the archipelago and far beyond its borders, is Manila, the nation’s capital and a space that holds multitudes of personal and collective histories for every Filipino who has called it home, visited it, or carried memories of its streets through years of travel and resettlement. This folk sound, titled Manila, I Love Manila, emerges from that long lineage of Filipino folk expression that centers place as a character, a loved one, and a repository of all the small, meaningful moments that bind a person to the geographic space that shaped them.
Manila, I Love ManilaChrist Olessongo
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