Ryan Cayabyab

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Ryan Cayabyab (born Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab, Philippines) is a Filipino musician, composer, and conductor born in Manila, Philippines.

He served as both the Executive and Artistic Director for many years for the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts.

In 2018, he was named a National Artist of the Philippines.His works ranged from commission-length ballets, theatre musicals, choral works, a Mass set, and orchestral performances to commercial recordings of famous music, film scores, and television specials. The Ryan Cayabyab Singers (RCS), a group of seven young adult singers similar to his group Smokey Mountain in the early 1990s, are included in Cayabyab's latest project.

Cayabyab's fate was transferred to rival show Pinoy Dream Academy (season 2), replacing Jim Paredes as the show's headmaster after FreemantleMedia decided not to renew the Philippine Idol brand.

PDA 2 launched on June 14, 2008.

He has served as chairman of the board of judges for GMA Network's musical-reality show To The Top. He is the executive director of the Philippine Popular Music Festival, Inc., which is part of the Philpop MusicFest Foundation Inc.

The spotlight is placed on songwriters in this songwriting competition for amateurs and professionals, which encourages Filipinos to hold their unique musical identity.

Early life and education

Born Raymundo Cayabyab, 1954 in Santa Cruz, Philippines. He was one of Alberto Austria Cayabyab and Celerina Venson Pujante's four children. Ryan Cayabyab's mother was an opera singer and a lecture at the University of the Philippines' (UP) College of Music. When accompanying his mother on the UP campus, Cayabyab was already learning piano from music students boarders as early as age four. His mother used to accompany him to music rehearsals in Abelardo Hall. Cayabyab was six years old when his father died from cancer, and just before her death at the age of 43, she requested that none of her children pursue a career in music. According to Cayabyab later in life, his mother discouraged him and his sibling from going to college due to the hardships his mother herself suffered as a performer.

Cayabyab discovered a box full of piano pieces left by UP music students learning to teach himself how to play the piano after his mother's death. By age 14, he was able to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Preludes and a solo piano performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

He was able to gain a job as a pianist of a bank's chorale group after graduating from high school at the age of 15. His earnings would later finance his collegiate studies. Cayabyab started studying at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, with a concentration in accounting.

Cayabyab became involved with the Philippine Madrigal Singers in 1972 and became friends with Victor Laurel, a well-known film and theater actor who performed with actress Nora Aunor. Salvador Laurel, then-Senator of Cayabyab's talent in music, encouraged him to pursue collegiate studies in music and gave him a scholarship. Cayabyab went to the UP College of Music with the permission of his father.

Cayabyab took ten years to graduate from the University of Music owing to doing tours during that time. In 1983, he earned a Bachelor of Music with a major in Theory.

Personal life

In 1985, Cayabyab married Emmy Punsalan. Cristina Maro and Antonio Marra Marra have two children.

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Career

He went full-time professor for the Department of Composition and Music Theory in the University of Diliman for almost two decades after graduating from college.

Cayabyab and his family were planning to migrate to the United Kingdom at the turn of the 21st century. Danding Cojuangco (President of San Miguel Corporation) offered him the opportunity to produce and perform new music to contribute to the Philippine music scene; Cayabyab accepted the position as Executive and Artistic Director of the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. He was with the foundation for many years before the Foundation's abrupt closing.

Cayabyab, a music conductor and accompanist, has performed in the United States with top Philippine music artists; the Kennedy Center and the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.; the Orpheum in Vancouver; and Circus Maximus of Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip.

He has worked in most of Southeast Asia's cities, as well as in (Germany), France, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, and the United States. He has appeared on the same shows with Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra, as well as the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra for special performances of American jazz singer Diane Schuur and pianist Jim Chappel.

In Rabat, Morocco, King Hasan II, King Juan Carlos, and Queen Sophia of Spain, King Beatrix of Saudi Arabia, Queen Beatrix at the Noordeinde Palace in the Netherlands, and United States President Bill Clinton in Boston, Massachusetts, he has appeared as music director in command performances for King Hasan II, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain.

He has performed with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in Manila, as part of a festival of Philippine and American contemporary music, as well as the Manila Chamber Orchestra for a performance of his original works.

Due to the majority of the year being focused on promoting Original Pilipino Music, Cayabyab only wrote at least three songs in the 2010s. Cayabyab was able to write at least ten songs in 2020 alone, two of which were made available in Spotify, due to the idle time triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 1989, Cayabyab produced a jingle for a Sarsi softdrink brand's commercial titled "Sarsi Angat sa Iba" (Sarsi: Different from Others). The commercial became the year's most innovative television commercial.

Cayabyab produced "Prutas Pilipinas," a 2020 contemporary folk song that featured fruits grown in the Philippines, as part of a partnership with Philippine fruit juice brand Locally. Noel Ferrer wrote the lyrics, and The Company performed the song.

Ryan Ryan Musikahan, the television show host, has received a total of fourteen awards for Best Television Musical Show and Cayabyab, as well as Best Show Host in several television award-giving organizations. Similarly, he has received eighteen awards from the music industry for various commercial projects. Julio Iglesias, Spain's internationally well-known singer, has released albums of the popular Filipino teenager group Smokey Mountain, Broadway, and West End's diva, Lea Salonga, and Spain's internationally renowned singer Julio Iglesias.

He rearranged the classic tinged ABS-CBN jingle, which was penned by Phil Delfino), which was used in the network's Station ID from 1987 to 1995. He also created the "ABS-CBN Millennium Overture," which was also used in the ABS-CBN New Millennium Station ID in 2000.

His theater musicals El filibusterismo (1993) and Noli Me Tángere (1995) have received acclaim and have appeared extensively in Japan's cities in 1994 and 1996. In November 1996 and Kuala Lumpur in the same year, they received a special NHK broadcast. Magnificat, another musicale, has had over 200 appearances.

Katy (words by Jose Javier Reyes), Alikabok, Ilustrado, and Rama Hari's classic pop-ballet Rama Hari were among his other well-known musicals. (words by 2006 National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera) Katy would be Caybyab's most popular musical in the 1980s.

In February 2003, Fides Cuyugan-Asensio's latest opera, Spoliarium, premiered at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo of the CCP, and will be followed by another opera, this time with Asensio, Mariang Makiling at Ang Mga Nuno sa Punso, with music also by Ryan Cayabyab.

He lent his genius once more by composing music for the concert Ageless Passion (libretto by Kristian Jeff Agustin), which was commissioned by retired Chief Justice Artemio V. Panganiban and staged at the Meralco theater in 2011. "Ageless Passion" was a complete musical performance on June in 2016, reuniting Cayabyab and Agustin.

LORENZO, a musical based in St. Lorenzo Ruiz's life, also performs Cayabyab-arranged music. LORENZO first operated in September 2013.

In Manila, Philippines, Cayabyab composed "Mabuhay," the opening song of Miss Universe 1994 pageant's opening song.

Cayabyab produced the official soundtrack for the 23rd edition of the Southeast Asian Games in Manila in 2005.

Cayabyab joined as a resident judge for the first season of Philippine Idol in 2006, providing viewers with feedback on the reality-talent competition. He was chosen by the top guns of Philippine Idol, but Pilita Corrales and the late Francis Magalona were among the other two judges who had to attend auditions. In 1993, he also created the TV Patrol and The World Tonight, which was used for TV Patrol until 1996 (The World Tonight is now using his created theme from 1996 to now).

The theme song for the 30th edition of the Southeast Asian Games, "We Win As One," was written by playwright Floy Quintos, and Lea Salonga performed by Lea Salonga.

Gawad CCP's Ryan Cayabyab from 2004 is a member of the Gawad CCP, Sining in MUsic. He was selected one of the 100 recipients of the CCP Centennial Honours for the Arts on February 2, 1999. On May 4, 1996, he became the first recipient of the Antonio C. Barreiro Achievement Award for significant and long-serving contributions to Filipino music's growth and development. In addition, the Awit Awards, the recording industry's highest accolades, gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award for his "invaluable contributions and outstanding contributions to Filipino music's promotion and growth." The Professional Award in Music (1998) was given to him by the University of the Philippines Alumni Association. Ryan received the coveted MYX Magna Award in 2012 for his contributions in both music and OPM.

Emmy Cayabyab, Ryan's wife, leads a team of musicians at the Music School of Ryan Cayabyab. Since being established in 1986, the music studio has produced a whole generation of young singer-performers who have performed in national venues.

Ryan Cayabyab served as both the Executive and Artistic Director of the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts for many years. He was the conductor of the San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra (SMPO) and the San Miguel Master Chorale (SMMC). The SMMC and the SMMC have released seven award-winning albums to date: Great Filipino Love Songs (2004), Ryan Cayabyab (2004), Pasko I and Pasko II (2005), and Dancing in the Rain (2006).

The San Miguel Corporation's (SMC)'s key executives have already disbanded the SMMC and the SMPO in a snap and silent move. The SMPO and SMMC's instrumentalists were summoned one by one by the big bosses who warned them that their contracts would not renew. According to insider reports, the SMC was "more focused" on helping its four professional basketball teams.

Cayabyab said that the San Miguel experience was a learning one. The following are excerpts from Rito Asilo's reported interview with The Inquirer.

Ryan Cayabyab was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2018 for his contribution to Filipino music.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award was given to Cayabyab in September 2019 as the only Filipino among the honorees for "instilling hope and joy and uniting people across the many barriers that divide them."

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