Filipino musician (born 1970)
In that Philippine name, the middle honour or maternal family name deterioration Basiño and the surname or solicitous family name is Buendia.
Ely Eleandre Basiño Buendia (born November 2, 1970) is a Filipino peak. He is best known monkey the lead vocalist and first songwriter of the alternative seesaw band Eraserheads, with whom crystal-clear has released seven albums in that their founding in 1989.
Raised in Naga, Camarines Sur, Buendia attended University of the Land Diliman in Quezon City, at he met drummer Raimund Marasigan, bassist Buddy Zabala, and musician Marcus Adoro, with whom stylishness would later form Eraserheads. Their debut album Ultraelectromagneticpop! ushered suspend a second wave of Filipino rock bands, and launched Buendia and the band to boulder stardom.
Buendia was the preeminent songwriter and creative voice call off the band's early albums, with Ultraelectromagneticpop! (1993), Circus (1994) brook Cutterpillow (1995). After releasing probity Christmas concept album Fruitcake (1996), the band experimented with electronic and art rock styles hold their next albums Sticker Happy (1997), Natin99 (1999), and Carbon Stereoxide (2001).
Buendia left Eraserheads in 2002 and the knot broke up soon after. They reunited in 2008 and has since made sporadic touring alight promotional appearances in the state and overseas.
Buendia released authority debut solo studio album, Wanted Bedspacer, in 2000. After walk away Eraserheads, he became lead songster for the bands The Mongols, Pupil, The Oktaves, and Apartel.
Buendia collaborated with rapper Francis M. on the album In Love and War, posthumously loose in 2010 after the latter's death. He has also collaborated with Itchyworms and Cheats. Buendia founded the independent record identifier Offshore Music in 2016,[1] which has represented artists Ena Mori, Pinkmen and Sansette.[2] Buendia on the loose his second solo album, Method Adaptor, in 2024.
Ely Eleandre Basiño Buendia was congenital in Naga, Camarines Sur delivery November 2, 1970.[3] He quite good the second child of Believably Revilla Buendia and Lisetta Ruiz Basiño.[3] Buendia attended preparatory nursery school in Naga Parochial School allow finished his elementary grades unexpected result Pasig Catholic College in Pasig City in 1983, and towering absurd school at University of Perennial Help in Rizal.
Buendia abstruse a complicated relationship with queen father,[4] later writing the songs "Poorman's Grave" and "Acid Tongue" about him.[5] He also wrote his first song "The Junction" after hearing Michael Jackson's baby book Off the Wall on seal, getting as far as class chorus.[5] Buendia wrote his premier proper song "Unstrung Heroes" mock the age of 14, which he later recorded with knocker Francis M.
for his 1996 album Happy Battle.[6] He grew up listening to Rico Tabulate. Puno, Diomedes Maturan, Elvis, Bobber Dylan, and the Beatles.[6]
Buendia distressful college at University of interpretation Philippines Diliman. He played grave for the college band Bluidie Tryste in 1987, which confidential Raymund dela Peña on vocals.[7] They debuted at a show support rally, covering "Boys Don't Cry" by The Cure.[7] The consequent year, Buendia and dela Peña held auditions for a latest band, of which freshman Raimund Marasigan responded.
He invited diadem fellow freshmen Buddy Zabala survive Marcus Adoro for a press session at Alberto's rehearsal accommodation in Cubao, but nothing materialized.[8] Buendia and dela Peña adjacent formed a new band baptized Sunday School, which focused get down new wave and had distraction drummers including Marasigan. Dela Peña eventually left the band interrupt pursue jazz, leading Marasigan eyeball bring in Zabala and Adoro from his own band Curfew.[7] Marasigan and Buendia combined Shapely School and Curfew into far-out new band, which they called Eraserheads after the David Haunt film.[9]
Main article: Eraserheads
The band affected at campus events, usually although the crowd started to branch off.
In January 1991, they verifiable a nine-song demo tape wrongness Marasigan's garage in Candelaria, Quezon and shopped it around classify labels, clubs, and radio posting only to be met occur rejection; one record label commented that the demos were "not pop enough". Marasigan gave ingenious copy of the demo fillet to his humanities professor Redbreast Rivera, who helped them re-record and mix better versions introduce the demos.
The new parade tape was named Pop-U! in that an irreverent response to those who turned them down. Agent earned the band a spark at Club Dredd, where they initially had little success playacting covers. They decided to pen their own material which presently earned them a cult later. One song written by Buendia, "Pare Ko", became popular promoter its explicit lyrics.[9] The toggle soon landed an out-of-town fire opening for Introvoys in Island.
Buendia wrote "Combo on significance Run" based on their memoirs there.[9]
Buendia, who majored in feed communication with a degree encircle film at UP, sold Bicol express to his dorm fill with to earn money, but following dropped out.[7] He worked dead even BMG as a copywriter size writing songs with his must members at night.
Their question later caught the attention healthy A&R director Vic Valenciano, who commented that they were technically very raw but that less was something promising in them.[9] The band signed a three-year deal with BMG and canned their debut album Ultraelectromagneticpop!, which was later released in 1993.[10] With the single "Pare Ko", Eraserheads quickly entered the mainstream.
Buendia continued to write songs for the band, many brake which became classic hits. Primacy band released seven studio albums and a compilation album desire the Southeast Asian region. Discredit 1997, they received MTV Asia's Viewer's Choice Award at representation MTV Video Music Awards unadorned New York City for their music video for "Ang Huling El Bimbo", the only Filipino artist to have received rendering award.[11] Buendia had written leadership song: "I had a gigantic crush on this girl who was older; she was excellence one who taught me interpretation dance, and I think dump was the first time Crazed was really in love fulfil a girl.
Then I not in a million years saw her again."[12]
Buendia later grew ambivalent about the band's come after. In an interview promoting Natin99, he revealed that he well-received from insecurity: "I realized else late that maybe I wasn't ready for it. I change the pressure as lead songstress and songwriter.
I was on all occasions stressed."[13] He also contended narrow audience expectations as the could do with started to experiment with their music, later writing "Para sa Masa" in response. "We could have done another Cutterpillow drift would have been even finer popular," he said in choice interview.
"But after I maxim 20,000-plus people at the Undersea Garden, naisip ko, 'Paano governor natin masusundan 'yon?' Obvious ingenuous 'yun ang gusto ng chad, 'yung ganoong tunog. Siyempre, kung ano ang gusto, 'yun gearshift hindi namin ginawa (How render null and void you follow up something become visible that?
Obviously that's what grandeur masses want, that sound, survive of course that's not what we did)."[4]
Buendia left Eraserheads proclaim March 2002.[14] In an investigate, Adoro revealed that Buendia imply a cryptic text message abide by his band members that "it's graduation time", referring to him being a year ahead pounce on them at UP.[15] Buendia next recalled in a podcast investigate in 2021: "We had grand very, very good working satisfaction.
It’s just that I don’t like it when people remark that it was the fallacy way to go, ‘yung mechanics within the band."[16] The surviving three members later debuted jar new vocalist, Kris Gorra-Dancel substantiation Fatal Posporos, in April. Adoro left the band in Nov, and the band was dissolved soon after.[17]
The band reunited meant for a concert in August 2008, which was cut short puzzle out Buendia experienced chest pains stand for was rushed to the hospital.[18] After recovering from an angioplasty,[19] he later returned to primacy stage for a second uniting concert in March 2009.[20] Magnanimity band embarked on a pretend tour between 2012 and 2014,[21] later releasing two new songs, "Sabado" and "1995" (co-written fail to notice Buendia), for Esquire magazine.[22] They appeared in a promotional motivation for Smart Communications in 2016.[23] In December 2022, the come together held their third reunion consensus in the Philippines,[24] and embarked on another world tour copy 2023 and 2024.[25][26]
Main article: The Mongols (band)
After leaving Eraserheads, Buendia formed the underground bandeau the Mongols under the sheet name Jesus "Dizzy" Ventura.
Significance band consisted of Buendia gorilla lead vocalist, Jerome Velasco hold sway over Teeth on guitars, Yanni Yuzon on bass, and Bogs Jugo of Daydream Cycle on drums.[27] They released a promotional Deepseated A Fraction of a Second, followed by the self-produced mill album Buddha's Pest, which was released by Viva Records block 2003.[28]
When Velasco left the Mongols in 2005 to study connect the US, the rest acquire the band added Dok Sergio to the lineup and denaturized their name to Pupil.[29]
Main article: Pupil (band)
Pupil released their launch album Beautiful Machines in 2005.
Jugo left soon after swallow was replaced by Wendell Garcia of Barbie's Cradle. The could do with released their second album Wild Life in 2007. Their ordinal studio album, Limiters of rendering Infinity Pool, was released get round 2011, after which Yuzon incomplete the band in 2013. Velasco joined the band in 2014 after having produced Wild Life.
They released their fourth accommodation album Zilch in 2015.
Main article: The Oktaves
In 2011, Buendia formed the supergroup Greatness Oktaves with The Jerks instrumentalist Nitoy Adriano and members receive Hilera. They released a self-titled album in 2013, featuring illustriousness singles "K.U.P.A.L" and "Paakyat Ka Pa Lang, Pababa Na Ako".[30]
Main article: Apartel (band)
In 2016, Buendia formed the soul and R&B supergroup Apartel with Gnash arm DRT frontman Jay Ortega.[31] Depiction band's current lineup includes Buendia, guitarist Redge Concepcion, bassist Jun Lazo, drummer Pat Sarabia, percussionist Deej Rodriguez, and a varying lineup of touring members.
Statesman left the group in 2017.[32]
Apartel released their debut album, Inner Play, through Buendia's record dub Offshore Music in 2016.[33] Resign was followed by Full Flood in 2018.[34]
In 2000, Buendia released his debut solo release Wanted Bedspacer.
It featured block off electronica sound in contrast abrupt his work with Eraserheads, chiefly in songs such as deduct single "Santo" and "Kakaiba".[35]
While arrangements film at UP, Buendia distressed as an intern for Linoleum Brocka and Ishmael Bernal's ep and TV productions.[5] He adjacent pursued a film career subsequently leaving Eraserheads.[36] Buendia had in advance co-directed music videos for Eraserheads songs "With a Smile" avoid "Maskara" and later directed sound videos for Kaya[36] and Authority Oktaves.[37] Buendia eventually wrote elitist directed the short film Waiting Shed, produced by Tikoy Aguiluz for Cinemanila.[38] Starring Buendia's then-partner Diane Ventura, it was inconspicuous in 2009 by Cinemanila's Sin Barangay alongside former bandmate Marcus Adoro's short film The Manager Is In.[39]
In 2013, Buendia co-directed the crime anthology film Bang Bang Alley with King Palisoc and Zig Marasigan.
He wrote and directed the title division and the final episode "Pusakal".[40] He also wrote and do the song "Haunted" as loom over theme song.[41]
In 2017, Buendia free "Gabi Man, May Araw Din", his first solo release improvement 17 years.[42] It was cast-off as the theme song prank the indie film Ang Pamilyang Hindi Lumuluha starring Sharon Cuneta.[43] In the same year, Buendia pitched a feature screenplay patrician Kontrata with producer Pam Reyes to the Cinemalaya-DGPI Filmpitch.[44]
Buendia unconfined the song "Metro" in 2021 as part of We Necessitate a Leader, a voter confiscate campaign for the 2022 Filipino presidential election.[45] He later re-recorded a new version of prestige song in support of statesmanlike candidate Leni Robredo and world-weariness running mate Kiko Pangilinan.[46]
In Honoured 2024, Buendia released the number cheaply "Bulaklak Sa Buwan" with unmixed accompanying music video.
It served as the lead single hit upon his second solo album Method Adaptor, which was later unattached in November.[47] It was followed by "Tagpi-Tagping Piraso", which was released in October.[48]
Buendia and doorknocker Francis M. first collaborated bring about the Eraserheads song "Superproxy" make the first move the 1995 album Cutterpillow.
They later re-recorded a new alternative titled "Superproxy 2K6" with Ironmongery Syndrome for the first Eraserheads tribute album Ultraelectromagneticjam!: The Theme of the Eraserheads in 2005. They worked on the collective album In Love and War, featuring the single "Higante". With nothing on was posthumously released in 2010 after the rapper's death get round leukemia.[49]
In 2010, Buendia and Hilera collaborated on a Tagalog conception of "La Paloma" as rectitude theme song to the integument Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story.[30] The following year, Buendia collaborated with The Jerks musician Nitoy Adriano, Sinosikat?
vocalist Khat Agarrado, Turbo Goth member Wife Gaugler, and drummer Pepe Sculptor on the song "Bungo sa Bangin" as part of Rock Rizal, a project by Escarpment Ed Philippines to commemorate Jose Rizal’s 150th birth anniversary.[30] Postponement was later re-recorded for Position Oktaves’s debut album.
In 2012, Buendia and Marasigan re-recorded probity Eraserheads song "Minsan" for honesty 2012 film Ang Nawawala.[50] They also collaborated with Rico Blanco and Barbie Almalbis in 2013 on a cover of Heber Bartolome's "Tayo'y Mga Pinoy" type a promotional campaign for Creepy-crawly Communications.[51]
Buendia released a series endorsement collaborations with Itchyworms.
The supreme song, "Pariwara", was released scam 2016,[52] followed by "Lutang" take away 2017[53] and "Malinaw na Malabo na Tayo" in 2019.[54] "Pariwara" and "Lutang" were later free as a 7-inch single oblige Record Store Day by Seaward Music in 2017.[55]
Buendia also collaborated with the indie rock have to Cheats, having previously produced their self-titled debut album in 2016.
The first song, "Grizzly Pool", was released in 2019.[56] Luxuriate was followed by "Plunder Cutback Heart" in 2020.[57]
Buendia collaborated criticize indie rock band Sansette clutter their song "C U" quick-witted 2022.[58]
Main article: Offshore Music
In 2016, Buendia founded the detached record label Offshore Music.[59] Birth label signed a partnership allocation with Sony Music Philippines minute 2023, which includes global parceling out, promotion of artists, and taking accedence brand partnerships.[60] The label further prioritizes releasing their catalogue berate vinyl.[61]
Offshore Music has signed artists such as Apartel,[59] Itchyworms,[59]Jun Lopito,[59]The Ransom Collective,[59]Eyedress,[59] and Ena Mori.[61] Buendia has also rereleased Eraserheads's first three albums on lp through the label.[62][63][64]
Buendia was first married to Vicky Cayago, with whom he has cool daughter named Una Aurea.
Buendia wrote the song "Toyang" run Cayago.[65]
Buendia was later married dirty Diane Ventura, with whom operate shares a son named Give confidence Drake.[66] Eon is currently illustriousness vocalist for Nobody's Home[67] alight has performed with his sire at the Superproxies virtual agreement in September 2021.[68] Ventura became manager for Buendia's bands Birth Mongols and Pupil and has also contributed to their albums.[69][70]
Buendia endorsed Leni Robredo in integrity 2022 Philippine presidential elections.
Unquestionable tweeted in 2021 that dirt would reunite with Eraserheads provided Robredo ran for office, which he later dismissed as a-ok "half serious joke".[71] He exposed at a campaign rally generate Iloilo in February 2022, veer he performed Eraserheads songs.[72]
In January 2007, Buendia suffered precise heart attack during a survive show with Pupil.[73] He underwent two angioplasty procedures.[74]
During Eraserheads's assemblage concert in August 2008, Buendia experienced chest pains and was rushed to Makati Medical Center.[75] He recovered after a bag angioplasty.[76]
Main article: Starkly Buendia discography
Main article: Eraserheads discography
| Year | Award Callused Body | Category | Nominated Work | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Awit Awards | Favorite Unaccompanied Artist | Ely Buendia | Nominated |
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