(Ninth of a series) Singer Lorna Cifra’s surname may have sealed her fate, but as any musician that’s ever had to make their own way in the gnarly terrain of music-making quickly finds out, a sound musical career is built on good and bad choices, a smidge of luck, and diligence of the sort that...
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Portraits in Jazz: At play with Lynn Sherman
(Eighth of a series) “…Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply…” To those lines of Huxley’s poetry from his novel Island, one readily conjures up the image of Lynn Sherman—singer, actor, animal rights activist, and, in her words, “frustrated model”—seamlessly gliding into any of those incarnations. She always...
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Portraits in Jazz: Quiet nights with Jeannie and Henry
(Fifth in a series) Fresh off the heady excitement of the Philippine International Jazz Festival (PI Jazzfest), which was revived in May after a six-year pause, and in which partners Jeannie Tiongco and Henry Katindig shared the stage with PI Jazz All Stars headliners and foreign jazz artists, the couple have returned to the dim...
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Cooky Chua and Joaquin Ignacio on making music and the changing times
For some time it was a familiar scene: Wherever the singer Cooky Chua and Color It Red performed, her young son Joaquin Ignacio would be doodling backstage. At one point, during a break, he strode onto the stage, strumming his small guitar. Not surprisingly, Joaquin would heed the same calling years later: He picked up...