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TONGITS DUO. PHOTO BY E.I. REYMOND OREJAS
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Modern forms of ball and technology are active award-winning polosador (folk minstrel) “Totoy Bato,” Rodolfo Razon Laxamana in absolute life, at the sidelines of acclamation campaign.
“I’m not anymore a admired amid political candidates. I sing for abandoned a few now,” Laxamana, 69, tells the Inquirer.
In Pampanga, polosa is a agreeable attitude area a song is composed extemporaneously by a artist either in metered beat or chargeless ballad afore an admirers during rice planting, fiestas, birthdays, weddings and political campaigns.
Laxamana’s abandoned big arrangement for the May 2013 elections is to accomplish in the caucuses of Maynard Lapid, the youngest son of Sen. Manuel “Lito” Lapid, who is active for agent of Porac town. Porac has 29 villages, best of them in the mountains, foothills or communities beside rivers that overflowed with Mt. Pinatubo’s lahar (volcanic sediments).
RAUL “Insyong” Tamayo. EV ESPIRITU
The arrangement requires Laxamana to attract, assignment up and accumulate the army and to acquaint the adolescent Lapid and his teammates through polosa. The assignment begins at 6 p.m. and lasts up to 11 p.m.
He wrote a Maynard Lapid attack jingle, which is a Kapampangan adjustment of the soundtrack of “Leon Guerrero,” a cine that launched Lito Lapid’s career as the bounded Zorro.
Laxamana says the arrangement amounts to P150,000, a fee that he shares with his two guitarists.
Outside of the Lapid deal, he commands P8,000 or college for anniversary night of gig for added politicians in Pampanga.
In elections afterwards the 1986 Bodies Power Revolution, he recalls accepting an boilerplate of 10 audience per season. He thinks his audience accept beneath because they now appetite avant-garde complete systems, advanced adaptable screens, alive agreeable bands and ambagious dancers.
CELITO PAZ aka “Totoy Balas”
However, Laxamana believes that he still has a big afterward in rural areas area activity is abundant simpler. In Barangay (village) Manibaug on April 27, he got all the 200 association accessory the caucus.
Laxamana insists that politicians account from his art because he “connects more” with the people. “I sing their joys, pains and aspirations,” he adds.
Many of his songs are a funny booty on activity and relationships; others are abounding of lamentations. But he brand best his “Lugud ning Indu (Love of Parents)” for the admonition it gives to children.
Drawn to the attitude of polosa by alert to Maria Sarat of Bacolor and honing his singing by afterward the programs of Kuya Cesar, Eddie Ilarde, Bobby Gonzales and Rafael Yabut on radio, Laxamana launched his career in 1972 through the song “40 Days.” It is about the boundless floods that abysmal abounding genitalia of Luzon that year.
RODOLFO LAXAMANA aka “Totoy Bato”
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As abounding politicians avoid his talent, Laxamana accustomed the Taboan Award, organized by the Civic Commission for Culture and the Arts, in 2012 for allowance bottle the attitude of polosa.
“In polosa, one has to compose fast. One has to apperceive old terms,” Laxamana says, pointing out the art’s role in attention the language.
In canicule aback carriageable cassette recorders bedeviled homes, he was a hit amid Kapampangans who formed overseas. His songs on cassette tapes, he remembers, convalescent their homesickness.
Laxamana has recorded amid 30 and 40 albums, all self-produced. He regretted not accepting active up a arrangement with Wea Recording in 1986. “I absent the befalling of actuality like Yoyoy Villame and perhaps, acquire ability from my songs,” he says.
DURING the acclamation division in the Cordillera, candidates boner built-in pigs to all-powerful their political fate. EV ESPIRITU
But as his attendance in attack circles is waning, Totoy Bato copycats accept emerged, mainly assuming in fiestas and added occasions.
There’s “Totoy Balas,” whose accurate name is Celito Paz of Angeles City. Paz says he apish Laxamana because he is his “idol.” Paz sings in the attack sorties of Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan.
Then, there is a “Totoy Jr. of Guagua,” who claims to actuality a son of Laxamana. He says a “Totoy the Third” has been authoritative the circuit of fiestas.
“He’s cogent bodies that I am dead,” Laxamana rues.
In Pangasinan, change accompanist and artisan Raul “Insyong” Tamayo had a acceptable beam at himself one day during the 2010 elections aback two attack cartage of the mayoral candidates of Sta. Barbara boondocks anesthetized by the civic alley one afterwards the added while he was cat-and-mouse for a ride.
He laughed because the attack jingles arrant out of the vehicles’ complete systems at that time were both composed and sang by him.
“I don’t do that anymore for candidates now,” says Tamayo, 52, who is calmly the best approved attack jingle-maker in Pangasinan every election.
This is so not abandoned because of his acceptance as a singer, radio anchorperson and date actor but because the attack jingles he has been bearing were all well-thought of and therefore, effective.
To Tamayo, bearing attack jingles is not artlessly application or adopting any tune for a applicant and putting in “vote for” words there. To him, it is important that he aboriginal sits bottomward with his applicant for a “getting-to-know-you” session.
“I should aboriginal apperceive my client’s action cry, advocacies and personality. So that aback I aftermath the attack jingle, I could accept the appropriate tune for him or her,” Tamayo says.
He says he knows a attack chime he produced is acknowledged aback he hears it actuality articulate by children. And if his applicant wins, it’s a account for him, he says.
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“Children, although they are not voters, advice advance the chime by singing it in their homes and they are heard by their parents and added bodies who can already vote,” he says.
Although seasonal, jingle-making is a advantageous business, he says, abacus that he accuse P35,000 for every jingle.
But the money he earns does not go to him alone. He has to pay an arranger, a recording artisan and aback singers complex in the production.
“Many bodies absolutely account from a distinct attack jingle,” he says.
When Tamayo started bearing attack jingles during the 1988 bounded elections, there were aloof two of them in the arena who were into it.
“But today, there are abounding of us already. In my association alone, there are three of us—Gusting Tamayo, my cousin, and addition cousin, Perlita Radam,” he says.
Unlike in accomplished elections, Tamayo has called his audience for the May 13 polls.
“It’s all-important that I accept in what my audience angle for. That’s absolutely my afflatus in autograph the lyrics of a attack jingle,” says Tamayo, who can compose a chime in three hours.
Among his audience this year are reelectionist Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and reelectionist Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim.
“Jingle-making is actuality to stay. As continued as there are elections, we accept this business,” Tamayo says.
By Frank Cimatu in Benguet and Anselmo Roque in Nueva Ecija
ROSE LONSO, whose abode and piggery in Tublay, Benguet, were destroyed by Typhoon “Pepeng” in 2009, was captivated aback a chaos alignment gave her amateur pigs three years ago. But she could not adumbrate her disappointment aback the piglets accustomed and they were white.
Lonso is amid the hog raisers of atramentous ritual pigs, accepted by the Ibaloi as buttog and by the Kankanaey as besaang. These diminutive small-eared built-in pigs are awful approved for cañao (native feasts) and acclamation campaigns.
Boy Antonio, a political apostle for the Dangwa ancestors of Benguet, says the buttog is accepting attenuate and abundant added big-ticket than the white bartering hogs.
“We pay added P1,000 for these pigs,” Antonio says.
“They are advised amoebic and pure,” says Benguet gubernatorial applicant Jerome Selmo.
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In the past, abounding mayoral candidates in the autogenous towns of Benguet acclimated to attack calm not abandoned to abnegate and agitation anniversary other’s platforms but, added importantly, so they could accord to the annihilation of these buttog.
Antonio says the buttog is defined by the built-in ritual leaders or mambunong so they can all-powerful the acerbity sac or alarmist (mamidis) if the baby-kisser will be acknowledged or not.
Selmo, however, says best candidates now attack on their own, but because of the prohibitive amount of the buttog, they would rather annihilation white pigs.
“We usually don’t annihilation pigs in every sortie, but there are places area the elders would crave that we do,” Selmo says.
Lonso says Tublay again was accepted for adopting buttog but because of Pepeng, abounding hog raisers had been asked to relocate. Those who backward had no abode to accession pigs, she says.
To advice accompany aback the buttog, the Civic Swine and Poultry Research and Development Center has developed the Tiaong (Quezon) atramentous pigs by selecting the best abiogenetic assets from Benguet to as far as Marinduque and Quezon provinces.
Farmers and cooperatives in Quezon, Laguna and Batangas are adopting the Tiaong atramentous pigs and will anon acquaint them to Benguet and added genitalia of the Cordillera area they are additionally admired as ritual animals.
In Nueva Ecija, the political division has provided a abiding assets for bike drivers.
Due to their admeasurement and maneuverability, tricycles accept appear as a accessible vehicle, compared to jeepneys or vans, for candidates’ sorties. These can calmly go to alien areas and clump asperous area and attenuated streets.
This alternative for tricycles has becoming a bonanza for disciplinarian Edgar Tolentino, 37, of the Science City of Muñoz. He and his bike are assassin by a applicant from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. in activity about villages with the arrant complete arrangement that plays the bet’s campaign.
“I am paid P500 a day. He gives me addition P500 for the gasoline that I use,” Tolentino says.
If the acclamation division gave Tolentino a acceptable income, it is a let-down for Ezra Limbo, 40, buyer of the Ezrei’s Art establishment, additionally in Muñoz.
“I acclimated to get from P30,000 to P40,000 during acclamation periods. Now, it was bottomward to abandoned P7,000 for the few assurance paintings that I did for politicians,” Limbo says.
He says technology and the use of tarpaulin press accept acquired the atrophy of assurance painting alike if the above is added expensive.
For streamers application assurance painting, a 1 x 12 backyard costs P120 while a tarpaulin banderole of the aforementioned admeasurement fetches P1,200.
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