PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MASTER RAPPER HIMSELF
FRANCIS MAGALONA (4 October 1964 - 6 March 2009)
♦ He was the first Filipino rapper in the Philippines to cross over into the mainstream
♦ He was later awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Merit. The award's citation noted that it had been given “for his musical and artistic brilliance, his deep faith in the Filipino and his sense of national pride that continue to inspire us.”
♦ He was also a television host on MTV Asia and Channel V Philippines and on noontime variety television show Eat Bulaga!
FULL NAME: FRANCIS MICHAEL DURANGO MAGALONA
AKA: FrancisM, Master Rapper, The Man From Manila, Kiko, The Mouth, The Filipino King of Rap
DIED: March 6, 2009 (aged 44) Philippines
FAMILY AND EARLY CAREER
♦ He was the eighth of the nine children of actors Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran, popular film stars of the 1940s and 1950s
♦ He was introduced by co-actor Richard Gomez to Pia Arroyo at a party in a disco owned by film director Ishmael Bernal,and the couple got married in 1985.
♦ The couple had eight children, two of whom were Magalona's stepchildren:
•UNNA MAGALONA
•NICOLO MAGALONA
• CLARA MAGALONA
• MAXENE MAGALONA (TV PERSONALITY)
• FRANK MAGALONA JR. (TV PERSONALITY)
• SAAB MAGALONA (TV PERSONALITY)
• ELMO MAGALONA (TV PERSONALITY)
• ARKIN MAGALONA (TV PERSONALITY)
THE LEGACY STILL LIVES ON..