Gary Valenciano
Gary V: On Higher Ground
Photos from the first night of the concert series at the music museum
6 shows left of @foreveron5spot @garyvalenciano1 in the music museum! Hurry and grab your tickets! U don’t want to miss this!😉 (photos by @karabodegon ) (Taken with instagram)
Iberry brats & the stubborns in the center. @paolovalenciano @indyvee @andyfriday @bjalbert @tsunami1040 @chiqui_okol lil manahan, Alex Guerrero (Taken with instagram)
so most people didn’t get my costume :l then i hear someone with a strong english accent ” ooooh thats frum the dawk knight !! “…….. im actually smiling here. too kilig to the bones.
rivermaya
50 years from now when i am old and gray, remembering the year 2011 will be one of those memories where after 5 decades , you still cant believe it. 2011 is the year i sang for Rivermaya. saying that i grew up listening to them is an understatement. while all my peers were listening to the heads and parokya ni edgar, there was just something about RM that hit the right buttons. there was something about the eccentric bald vocalist that intrigued me so much, i would study his odd moves , his facial expressions and wait, he’s bald?! i thought all rockstars had long hair?? (i was grade 4 give me a break) and the lyrics, oh boy the lyrics. i wasn’t a fan of OPM at that time , in fact, the first time i heard a RM song was when michael v sang the song Himala …. in english. i was singing it on the way to my classroom when all these kids started to laugh. they thought i was joking (thank God. i cant handle rejection. eye liner please). i fell in love with the song. a few weeks and cassettes later, i was hooked.
although i was never officially part of the band, it did feel like it for a few months. summer of 2011 was like a dream that i never even dared to hope for. i was the vocalist of rivermaya. wow… sometimes i would space out thinking “there is no way i could pull this off. no way”. i would spend entire nights watching videos on youtube and quite frankly, the responsibility scared the hell out of me. i didn’t have the charisma or the star power of the previous members and i knew that fans were not going to be pleased that some pop stars kid was going to mess up their legacy. but surprisingly, they seemed to like it. well, most of them (you cant avoid the trolls). i was singing RM songs along with thousands of people and i was getting paid to do it. i was actually getting paid. for singing in a band! it was surreal. AND. i have never ridden an airplane that many times in my life! i’ve been in a band for almost 8 years and although there is the “cool” factor in being in an underground band, what i experienced was what every purist band can only dream of… a taste of success.
now that my partnership with them is coming to an end, i will forever be grateful to them for letting me live my dream. even if it was just for awhile, the lessons i learned will shape the rest of my life. and like every RM fan i will continue to pray and beg God to convince them to do the one thing everyone is waiting for. A reunion!
