{"id":44968,"date":"2022-05-29T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/29\/filipino-p-pop-stars-singing-local-languages"},"modified":"2022-05-29T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:00:06","slug":"we-want-filipinos-to-hug-themselves-the-p-pop-stars-reconnecting-with-their-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44968","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We want Filipinos to hug themselves\u2019: the P-pop stars reconnecting with their culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alamat are aiming to bring their music to the world \u2013 by singing in their local languages<\/p>\n<p>Vocal coach Zebedee Zu\u00f1iga twists his hand in the air, and the melody of a tender, haunting lullaby, Ili Ili Tulog Anay,<em> <\/em>begins. \u201cLittle one, little one, sleep now\/ Your mother is not here \/ She went to buy some bread,\u201d sing the six members of Alamat, sitting in a circle. Then hip-hop beats kick in; the traditional Philippine lullaby, known as <em>oyayi<\/em>, is merged with more contemporary sounds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a Monday afternoon at Viva records\u2019 studios, and Alamat, one of the label\u2019s rising acts, are rehearsing their next single. They\u2019re part of a new wave of bands, often referred to as P-pop, flourishing in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/29\/filipino-p-pop-stars-singing-local-languages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alamat are aiming to bring their music to the world \u2013 by singing in their local languagesVocal coach Zebedee Zu\u00f1iga twists his hand in the air, and the melody of a tender, haunting lullaby, Ili Ili Tulog Anay, begins. \u201cLittle one, little one, sleep now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,1967,425,55,1032,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-languages","category-music","category-philippines","category-pop-and-rock","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44968\/revisions\/44969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}