Ka Freddie Aguilar, or simply Ka Freddie, is a Filipino folk musician and singer-songwriter. Regarded as one of the pillars and icons of Original Pilipino Music (OPM). He is best known for his rdition of Bayan Ko, which became the anthem of the opposition against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos during the 1986 People Power Revolution,
Freddie Aguilar's musical beginnings started wh he was young. Wh he was 9-years-old, Aguilar played his first guitar. By the time he was 19-years-old, Freddie Aguilar performed on stage with Joshua Alcantara for the first time.
Aguilar studied Electrical gineering at De Guzman Institute of Technology but did not finish the degree program. Instead he pursued music, became a street musician, and th a folk club and bar musician.
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At the age of 18, Aguilar parted ways with his family and quit college. After realizing and regretting his mistakes five years later, he composed the song Anak.
He is also heavily influced by his Filipino heritage, nationalist feelings, and tries to constitute a musical exploration of the Filipino ethos.
Aguilar first began performing in public in 1973, wh he auditioned and was hired to play folk songs at ₱500 per gig at the Hobbit House in Ermita, Manila.
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Aguilar's Anak not only broke the Philippine record charts in 1979, but it also hit the no. 1 spot in Japan and achieved considerable popularity in other countries as Angola, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and parts of Western Europe.
The song has become so famous that, by some counts, it has be recorded in as many as a hundred versions in 23 languages throughout the world.
Billboard reported that the song was the number two world hit of the 1980s. According to Billboard, Aguilar was the second best-selling recording artist of 1981 in Europe.
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Ev before Aguilar's rdition of Bayan Ko, Aguilar created and performed songs targeted at social injustices. His album, Magdala included songs about a girl forced into prostitution as a result of poverty and the Christian-Muslim clashes in his song Mindanao. After the album, Freddie Aguilar also sang about the injustices suffered by the powerless, poverty, and the arrogance of superpowers in a song about the U.S. and Russia.
Five years after the composition of Anak, Freddie Aguilar joined protests against the Marcos regime and began writing and performing songs that criticized the excesses of the governmt.
Some of the songs that caused him to be banned from mainstream media include: Kata-rungan or Justice (speaking for the unjustly accused), Pangako (Promise) (a leader's unfulfilled pledges to an abandoned people), and Luzvi-minda (an acronym for Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, calling on Filipinos to wake up to the reality of oppression). One of the songs he was most remembered for during that time was his interpretation of Bayan Ko (My Country), in which he added a verse to the original piece.
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In 1978, Aguilar first recorded Bayan Ko in a patriotic effort to, in his words, jolt back those who were starting to forget who we really are.
The song was originally composed in 1928 by Constancio de Guzman, with lyrics by poet Jose Corazon de Jesus, during a time of struggle for Philippine indepdce from US occupation.
It emerged once again during the Marcos regime as the unofficial anthem of the emergt people of the People Power, the new democratic nation opposed to authoritarianism that is widely credited with the deposing of Ferdinand Marcos.
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In 1983, the assassination of Bigno Ninoy Aquino triggered massive demonstrations against the Marcos dictatorship, and Aguilar's rdition of Bayan Ko was blared on the radio and speakers mounted on jeepneys throughout the streets of Manila and the provinces of the Philippines.
At the funeral of Sator Aquino, Freddie Aguilar sang Bayan Ko and felt that Aquino was a man of action who ev gave his life for the freedom of the Philippines.
Aguilar, along with APO Hiking Society and other Pinoy pop musicians who took a stand against dictatorship, joined other protest singers in music and street performances as part of the anti-Marcos rallies.
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A few years later, Aguilar campaigned for the presidtial candidacy of Corazon Aquino in the national election that would lead to the 1986 revolt.
Aguilar mtioned in an interview with ABS-CBN News that the lyrics of the song combines the love the Filipinos have for their country, commemorate the Aquino family, and commitmt to the country.
Aguilar still lives in the Philippines, and continues to perform. He has moved to his own place dubbed Ka Freddie's.. He still has a strong following in the Philippines and among many Filipinos living overseas.
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During the campaign and the Inauguration of presidt Rodrigo Duterte, Aguilar performed “Para sa Tunay na Pagbabago”, which is one of Duterte's campaign jingles to the tune of Ipaglalaban Ko.
That he is in a relationship with a 16-year-old girl, Jovi Gatdula Albao (Muslim name Sittie Mariam), with plans to marry and ev have childr, as his partner insisted that she is willing to have a baby.
On January 3, 2018, Aguilar's residce in North Fairview, Quezon City was destroyed by a fire, which was reported to have started at his music room.
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The fire destroyed most of Aguilar's valuables estimated at around ₱15 million, including his art collection, awards, musical instrumts, records, and other personal memorabilia. Aguilar was at Ka Freddie's, his bar & restaurant along Tomas Morato Avue, during the fire. His wife, son Jonan, and mother-in-law were all inside his residce during the fire, but were able to escape unharmed with the help of their neighbors.