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Caracola peñera - La música de esta danza pertenece a Eduardo Méndez Benítez. La letra de la danza es de José Abrodos y su coreografía de Salvador Diego Nigro con colaboración de Raúl Correa. Esta danza se presentó en los estudios de canal 8 de televisión de Mar del Plata el 26 de Octubre de 1980 en el programa de Ganadores de Mar del Plata. Bailan la danza un grupo de alumnos de la profesora Angel Ferri bajo su dirección.

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Chicago music duo IVORY SONG (Michel Domingue-vocals & violin, and Bong Peñera-piano & arrangements)interprets a Michel Legrand classic, "What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life". More music and info on the duo's site at: www.ivorysong.com

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BONG PEÑERA: O PATO --Live! From the Bong Peñera Recording archives, this Silva-Texeira Brazilian hit (also called 'The Duck") is here performed live, and intimately with no band but just Bong's piano and his voice. The concert was held at a private event in Chicago, IL, December of 2010. What is it exactly? Is it Bong Peñera's voice -- his syncopated singing of the Portuguese lyrics? His pulsating and sensual samba piano? Even with no bass or drums, I found myself dancing or involuntarily swaying to the beat of this song, cunningly seductive, I must say. You think you're only listening to it but moments after the opening lyrics you're either tapping your fingers or singing along or moving your head or dancing quite discreetly. This track shows that samba is such a natural thing for Bong, and he does it effortlessly. It was no wonder that when he played and sang at Calesa Bar of the Hyatt Regency around 1977-80, the Brazilian ambassador spoke to him in Portuguese thinking Bong...

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Chicao music duo IVORY SONG (Miguel Domingue on vocals and Bong Peñera on keyboards) interprets a Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill hit, ON BROADWAY. Guest drummer is Tom Tedrahan. Recorded 11/08/08 at Chris Brown Studios, Oak Park, IL. Recording Engineer: Chris Brown. More info and music on the duo's new website coming soon! Stay tuned.

Tags: Bong Peñera  Jose Penera  Lorenzo Katigbak  Jr.  Jun Katigbak  Rosito Penera  Diane Espejo-Velasco  Diane Velasco  Peter Molina  Joe Trekles  Samba Chicago  Scott Steinman  Studio Media in Evanston  IL 

This song"Samba Chicago" won 2nd place in the Latin category of the 1989 TDK-Billboard Songwriting Contest held in the US This 5th album of original songs by Bong Peñera was produced by Bong and his friend Lorenzo Katigbak, Jr., (simply "Jun" to his friends). It has some very welcome surprises: foremost of this is the English vocals contributed by UP Concert Chorus singer, Diane Espejo-Velasco (soloist featured in the title track). The other surprise was the song "The Heart is A Lonely Hunter" that departs from the bossa nova, but had a very Bacharach/pop-like flavor. As in his third album, this particular song is from a poem, this one written by gifted Chicago poet/artist, Jorge Rodriguez-Florido. There is another song in the album Bong wrote, again, for a girl, or containing the name of a girl or a muse, this time "Andrea." (Who can forget Bong' earlier songs entitled "Amanda", "Imee" "Luisa", "Imelda" "Rosita Maria", etc? Even early on during his CEU Conservatory of Music days,...

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Chicago music duo IVORY SONG (Michel Domingue on vocals & Bong Peñera on keyboards) dish a great Stevie Wonder hit, ISN'T SHE LOVELY. Guest drummer is Tom Tedrahan. Recorded 11/8/08 at Chris Brown Studios in Oak Park, IL. Recording Engineer: Chris Brown. More info and music on the duo's new website coming soon! Stay tuned.

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Chicago duo IVORY SONG (Michel Domingue-vocals and Bong Peñera-keyboards) interprets a great Bart Howard classic, Fly Me to the Moon, Guest drummer is Tom Tedrahan. More music and info on the duo's site at: www.ivorysong.com.

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Ivory Song Quartet version of a great Jobim classic, One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota So). Portuguese lyrics by Newton Mendonca. Jobim wrote the English lyrics sung here and as interpreted by Michel Domingue-vocals, Bong Peñera-piano and arrangements, Phil Gratteau-drums and Ross Lahlum-bass. Recorded October 21, 2009 at Steve Yates Recording, Morton Grove, Illinois, Steve Yates-Recording Engineer. More music and info on: www.ivorysong.com. Full CD to come soon! Bong Peñera's own and official website is at: www.bongpenera.com.

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BONG PEÑERA: AFTER THE STORM (Music by Bong Peñera ©2011) This is an instrumental number, a welcome one, and another original by Bong Peñera, written just recently, this month of May in the year 2011. It will be included in Bong's upcoming CD of original works. Originally titled "Soundtrack" Bong changed it to "After the Storm" as it was really written during the Easter Season, and in May, when spring converges with the joy of Easter. The storm consisted of the Passion of our Lord, but after three days, after Good Friday came the peace and joy of Easter Sunday. "We all are withering some kind of storms in our lives" muses Bong. "And we go through them, but with God's grace there is always the peace and the calm that comes after every storm." This track is another study or demo for the project. Bong still has in mind an acoustic guitar doing the principal melody line and a lush movie-like-soundtrack orchestra in the background. We'll see. Bong himself picked the still clips for...

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Chicago duo IVORY SONG (violinist and vocalist Michel Domingue & pianist and arranger Bong Penera) interprets a beautiful jazz standard and classic, Body and Soul. More music and info the duo's website at: www.ivorysong.com

Tags: Bong Peñera  Jose Penera  A Samba Song  Paul Candelaria  Al Iglesias  Edgar Avenir  Koyang Avenir  Nestor Torre  Elvira Manahan 

It's a long title above I know, but as a journalist, I feel the subject or headline should tell it all. If YouTube will allow this, then kudos to YouTube. But more importantly, to you and me, and to whoever will watch this clip, kudos to you and me. "How lucky can we get?" This is the first ever video clip of the great artist in action, telecast before millions of Filipino viewers then, in 1984, and then now, probably even billions, after the release of this clip. Bong had just returned from a three year stint in Hong Kong (1981-1984), and Manila celebrities like Nestor Torre and the late Elvira Manahan (she frequented Calesa Bar to watch Bong), fans themselves of the great artist, were in into telecasting a welcome reunion for Bong. And here, right before you, is the magic of that telecast: Bong -- playing and singing his original composition "A Samba Song" that debuted in his maiden LP of the same title in 1976. Believe it or not, this is from a crude Betamax tape. Bong handed me...

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Beautiful rendition of a Louis Armstrong classic, "What a Wonderful World" performed by Mike and the Friendlies. The Friendly kids sing while Mike plays violin and Joel plays the piano and arranges. Recorded January 3, 2012. More info on the following link: www.mikeandthefriendlies.com

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Chicago music duo IVORY SONG (Michel Domingue-vocals & violin and Bong Peñera-piano & arrangements) interprets a George Shearing and George David Weiss hit, LULLABY OF BIRDLAND. More info and music from the new and upcoming website of the duo. Stay tuned!

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BONG PEÑERA: ADORE TE DEVOTE It has been said before, Manila jazz legend, Bong Peñera, has a uniquely haunting, singing voice. And this very rare and recent track shows it all. One may be reminded of Astrud Gilberto's rendition of "Manha de Carnaval" with just Luiz Bonfa's guitar accompanying her. But, in this track, it is a notch higher as Bong sings the beautiful classical Gregorian hymn, "Adoro Te Devote" (Humbly, I Adore Thee), attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, and chanted traditionally during Holy Thursday of Lent and every Thursday in honor of the Holy Eucharist. He sings the song in Latin, and he accompanies himself with just his left hand on the piano as if it were a guitar. I have heard many version of this hymn before, choirs, monks, new age artists. But none has the stunning simplicity of this track, the haunting innocence, the tender and sincere depth! It's like he is singing a lullaby to God, consoling Him, and which is what prayer, in essence, is. Many have noted...

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BONG PEÑERA: LIKE A LOVER (O Cantador) 1985. Summer. Bong Peñera had just returned from Hong Kong, completing a 3-year stint at the Royal Garden Hotel, playing piano solo. Word was out that while there he had mastered 'world" music: playing French, Russian, Spanish, Arabian, and even Chinese music. It had most fans of his worried: "Will he ever play samba again?" -- was the question foremost. After all when he suddenly left in 1980, the year he was voted Jazz Pianist of the Year, his band Jazz Band of the Year, and his third album as one of the top five albums of the year by nation-wide polls conducted by Jingle Magazine, then the only legitimate Philippine music magazine, there was a void. And no one or nothing filled that void. Till he came back in 1985 for a brief stint. And the whole Manila jazz scene breathed a collective sigh of relief when the jazz legend showed and proved he not only has he not forgotten the samba of which he is made of, but even took it a higher level....

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As in the past Bong Peñera has always had "non-samba" songs from his albums of all-original compositions. In the maiden, "A Samba Song" two standout: the poetic "Afraid to be Known" and "Rosita Maria", both lyrical ballads that cut through the smoke. The rest of the tracks were these beautiful Jobim-like tunes, so beautiful that a Brazilian diplomat he met through another friend, Maria Dulce Soares da Silva ("Dudu" to friends) offered to translate the title song to Brazilian Portuguese. But Dudu, like most Brazilian women, loved to sing and sang quite well. Bong heard her singing the song in Portuguese and decided to include her track in the maiden album. In the second, "Batucada Sa Calesa" there's the "Lullaby", the "Valse Nova" (composed for his father), and "Imee" which he dedicated to his friend Imee Marcos. And in the 3rd, recorded in 1980, there is the now famous "Love Notes", a swing work featuring the commendable singing of Pat Castillo, for whom he wrote this song. Though...

Tags: Longing  Bong Peñera  Jose Penera  Norma Ramirez  Ram Ramirez  Paul Candelaria  Jun Salvame  Cesar Yumping  Boy Aspiras  A Samba Song  UP Abelardo Hall 

It was called "old-time high" when Bong Peñera and his group of talented musical artists regaled almost every entertainment circuit in Manila, Baguio, Bacolod, and other Philippine cities, the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, school campuses, radio stations, TV stations, etc., Every conceivable environ where there was good music -- Bong was there with his music team, his beat, his Batucada (Brazilian word for "beat'). One of the more unforgettable live and packed performances was the UP (University of the Philippines) Abelardo Hall concert, circa 1977. Bong was then managed by Boy Aspiras, then son to the Tourism Secretary. He had just come from two SRO (standing room only) concerts at the TJCC, and the highly acclaimed concert at the Phil-am Life Auditorium with tenor saxophonist Lito Molina, vocalist Jacqui Magno, guitarist Sonny Nicolas and Bong's mainstays: drummer Cesar Yumping, bassist Paul Candelaria and flute/sax/trumpet genius, Jun...

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Chicago music duo IVORY SONG (Michel Domingue-vocals and Bong Peñera-electric piano & arrangements) render Mel Torme's work with Bob Wells, "The Christmas Song". More info and music on the duo's new website coming soon! Stay tuned.

Tags: Bong Peñera  Jose Penera  Chris Zamora  Dong Zamora  Dede Sampaio  Ross Lahlum  Rogeo's Live Performance 

April, 1994. The scene was Rogeo's in Chicago, one of the then leading local jazz bars and pubs. It was one those packed shows that the Manila jazz legend held. But this 2 night gig was special. Bong was flanked by the cream of the crop: talented Filipino guitar phenom, Chris "Dong" Zamora on guitars, Ross Lahlum on acoustic bass, and Brazilian genius Dedé Sampaio on drums and percussion. This track is by Antonio Carlos Jobim, entitled "WAVE" and it is culled from a Live CD of Bong entitled "Live at Rogeo's". That this clip should be released now is nothing more than fortuitous. The Filipino music scene has just had a big loss: that of Dong Zamora who had passed away on December 10, 2011, just three months after Manila lost its own, Edgar "Koyang" Avenir, who also played with Bong. There are 13 other tracks including: "Lady Madonna", "Bluesette", "My One and Only Love", "A Samba Song", "O Cantador", "Satin Doll", "Take Five", and many more. More details about the availability of...