Ang Dekada
The Dé Kada profile and its members:
Dé Kada believes in music and work collaboration. The product of their music is a harmony that blends the intrinsic qualities of each member not a part but as one.
They’d like to be known as Innovative Filipino Music Composers. Coming out with their own Album this Year, “De'Kada”
Their brand is a Fusion of Filipino and World Music Sound with a touch and influence of Blues, Ballad, Jazz, Pop, Reggae and Ska.
MEMBERS
- LITO CRISOSTOMO
- DENG SILORIO
- ERWIN GALANG
- MERIC MARA
- JAYMER HERNANDEZ
- MADZ VELASCO
- DINDO TAJONERA
- NOWIE FAVILA
- ROLDY MABBAYAD
- CHOX CAL
- LAZER DE GUZMAN
- PAUL B. REBURIANO
- LESTER CAPISTRANO
- RONALDO BANAAG
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LITO CRISOSTOMO
Lead Guitars
With 20 years of plucking and strumming experience doing lead guitars for The Blank, Ang Grupong Pendong, Asin and Yano.
He currently teaches Music Appreciation classes at Community of Learnes at San Juan
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ERWIN GALANG
1st Keyboards
Erwin, in his 15 years in the music biz has played, sang with and accompanied Patatag, Tropical Depression, Reggae Mistress, Brownbeat All-Star and Badjao Roots. Infamous for his "fast fingers" doing scales after of scales musical notes.
By day, he is a technical consultant and application developer.
He says he has a big heart and aspires to be famous and loved by all.
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NOWIE FAVILA
Drums and Percussions
Currently the Band Leader of Upnext and Drummer for Firefly, Nowie still finds time to session with De Kada.
He had played and recorded with Yano, Ang Grupong Pendong, The Jerks, Tropical Depression, Buklod, Jess Santiago, CocoJam and Sinaglahi.
Type of music played: Blues, R & B, reggae, soul, latin, pop, jazz, retro, rock, rock and roll, mellow/standard, etc
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JAYMER HERNANDEZ
Drums and Percussions
Jaymer, a musician from Angono, Rizal, took up diploma in music major in percussion in the university of the Philippines diliman. He became a member of manila youth symphony orchestra and manila symphony orchestra II. He was also a former member of Angono national symphonic band, which was formed by the late maestro Lucio San Pedro, and the Rizal Provincial Capitol Band. Jaymer is one of the founding members of the ska band Neighbors and became a part of the brownbeat all-stars. Jaymer is now a drums teacher at Music Wizard, Angono.
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ROLDY MABBAYAD
Bass Guitar
R&B, Rock, Jazz, Pop, Hip Hop, Acoustic, Ballad, Club, Dance, Techno, Disco, House, Retro, Reggae, Acid Jazz, Heavy Metal, etc.
Roldy is currently playing with Colored Soul Band. He also had been with Emanate Acoustic, X2C Band, Indigo, Livewire, Systems Band, and Metamorphosis playing Bass Guitars in R&B, Rock, Jazz, Pop, Hip Hop, Acoustic, Ballad, Club, Dance, Techno, Disco, House, Retro, Reggae, Acid Jazz, Heavy Metal, etc.
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CHOX CAL
2nd Keyboards
Your typical wedding singer is Chox. Young and spunky and can play almost anything.
Now just in his early 20s, this gifted young talent has played with Chalk at Muzikahija and performed at Club Indios, Syncopado and Kubooze Bar.
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Dindo with his sax will lure you. He has played with bands like Put3Ska and Ding Malazo Orchestra.
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Madz has been the bass player of the Ska Band "Neighbors" since 1995.The latest cool addition to our group is a quick learner and gets his beat easily.
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DENG SILORIO
Vocals / Composer / Lyricist
A true-blooded musician. She had Had been in singing groups even before starting school. She had been a member of the group called Patatag in the late 80’s and early part of 90’s and had been a UP Concert Chorus trainee.
Deng is a BA Philosophy graduate dabbling in social and inter-disciplinary studies in arts such as Solfeggio, Music Composition & Arrangement, Technical Writing, Sound Engineering & Video Editing.
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MERIC MARA
Lyricist / Composer
Meric is the Group’s very promising lyricist and composer; most of the songs in the album are his original compositions.
As an Open Source practitioner he spends most of his time with KahelOS Linux and Asterisk.
http://mericmara.wordpress.com
Saro is also among the young blood in the group. Has displayed his skills in Redhorse Musiclaban in 2001 and Jam Sessions released by BMG Records
The soft spoken bass guitar player has been touring with some bands for the last decade; 1999 at Renaisance in Legaspi City; 2000 at Palance Inn Hotel in Bahrain; ,2001 at Ritz Palace Hotel in UAE; 2006 at Hauf Brauhaus in Jianyin China Garden.
Quiet but watch out for Lester. Our trumpet player who have been with the company of Brownbeat Allstars & Angono National Symphonic Band
Naldo was able to hone his skills with the following group: Angono Youth Band, Angono Concert Band, Pasig City Band, Taguig City Band, Agaw Agimat, Ding Malazo Orchestra, UP College of Music, Brownbeat, Neighbors.
