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Willie garte biography

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WILLY GARTE—THE FIRST ESTEHANON MALE COMPOSER-RECORDING ARTIST In the world of music, today’s current war on drugs calls to mind the song, “Bawal na Gamut”, easily identified with Willy Garte. No less than PNP Chief Bato de la Rosa sang it in PTV4’s “So Ano Na?” in July, last year. Who is Mr Garte? JOEL LAGARTIJA in real life, Willy is the first Estehanon with disability to make it to the national scene both as pop composer and recording artist. As evidence of his talent in pop music, his first album, “Nasaan ang Liwanag,” on November 15, 1992, got a Gold Record Award, and by December 11, 1994, earned a 9th Platinum Record Award from Universal Records, that is to say, it achieved a sale of more than 360,000 units. He was popular among the “masa” music buffs in the 1990s, especially in AM and FM stations, in jeepneys and in the provinces. Among his best known songs, in addition to “Bawal na Gamut,” were “Nasaan ang Liwanag” and “Kay Lupit ng Tadhana.” Willy Garte was born to Juan Lagartija and Matilde Lucana Pombo on April 2, 1962 in Bgy Ne

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Willy Garte (2 April 1962 – 6 September 1998) was a Filipino singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the 1990s. He was a blind singer who popularized the songs "Bawal na Gamot", " Where is the Light", "Kay Lupit ng Dodhana", and others. Biography [ edit | edit wikitext ] Willy Garte was born to Juan Lagartija and Matilde Lucana Pombo on April 2, 1962 in Barangay Nena, San Julian. He contracted measles at the age of five and soon became blind. Although he had no formal education due to his disability, he learned to play a locally made guitar at a young age. As a child, he put together what is known in Eastern Samar as "kumbatchero" (from the Spanish "cumbachero"), a puerile version of a pop band, using recycled junks such as tin, soda bottles and cans of gas and indigenous materials. The group, often called "Combuta" ("combo"+"blind", no doubt, because of his blindness), is usually active during the Christmas holidays. But soon people recognized his talent. Career in Music [ edit | edit wikitext ] In the mid-1980s, with the help of a "Kababayan" (from Nena) who worked abroad, he

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