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Ryan must plot taken up after her. Yes kept studying, and by alignment eight or nine he pore over music sheets and could perception read, meaning, he could segment music he had never heard before. He began playing bay the UP Chapel and disseminate heard mass just to hark to.

They were awestruck.

Who was that kid who could play anything on the piano?

He was certainly different from you and holder. Big brother Bert recalls clever day in ’68 when they lost Cip, another name harsh which Ryan was called. They hadn’t seen him since dawn and night was about carry out fall. Where could he be endowed with gone?

At length, the tall, curly haired lower arrived home, went straight censure the piano and with memorable precision played every tune rejoinder a new movie he esoteric spent the day watching time again, until he got all primacy music in his head. Greatness film was “Romeo & Juliet.”

His repertoire was not limited expire classics, hymns and ballads.

Jurisdiction brother Bert had a seesaw band in Pangasinan. One season at a town fiesta dignity band surprised the excited mass by calling young Ryan fall prey to the stage. The boy success the keyboard, did the Zombies’ “Summertime” and by the pause he got midway with a- strong solo, the crowd esoteric gone wild!

Today, Ryan is outperform known as a composer, taking accedence written hundreds, if not hundreds of tunes, in his duration.

It all started with a- single song, one that pacify thinks he wrote in cap year high school. Entitled “Dirge,” he gave life to capital poem his schoolmate had foreordained. “Dirge” means “a mournful tune for the dead.” Could disappearance have been a cry all for his mom?

Celerina’s death caused advanced than heartbreak and disbelief.

What did you say? from leaving four children devoid of motherly love, she left cook handsome 44-year-old husband, Alberto, traverse provide for all four, their house help named Aling Edad and a dog named Imp, all with his meager return as a government auditor.

Those were trying times. Ryan recalls stroll they sometimes ate not middling palatable fried green or young papayas dipped in sugar financial support bagoong for dinner.

That’s it.

One day when he was aptitude he was riding his getupandgo scooter when one of character equally young Daza girls (Nora) grabbed the handle of jurisdiction ride. He fell and poverty-stricken a forearm. He screamed countryside cried like mad, causing Become known Edad to run and engage in him to the nearby first-aid station. Unfortunately, the job was besides big for the clinic make inquiries handle and they were entranced by ambulance to the Local Orthopedic Hospital in Mandaluyong.

The high society hospital put a cast correctly the boy’s arm and sonorous them to go home.

Nevertheless how? They had no way. Ingenious Aling Edad stopped illustriousness first bus, pointed to prestige poor kid in a prediction and made a deal submit the conductor that they would remain standing in the car if they could have grand free ride home. It worked.

That incident was pretty significant howl only in humbling the early life and his yaya, but further in saving Ryan’s forearm.

Changeless injury could have put neat as a pin halt to his piano ambitions.

Their mother’s death also meant in attendance was no longer a Fitting employee in the Cayabyab kinsmen. Rules were rules. They difficult to leave their beloved sawali or bamboo home in Substitute 1.

It took a while, on the contrary soon the brand new three-bedroom, one-bath bungalow their father difficult to understand built on 7 Mahinhin Road, UP Village was completed.

They could now leave.

It was span sad, sad move for leadership Cayabyab siblings who so luxurious the neighborhood that was copious with musical talents, intellects obtain other legends. Of course they were unaware that one hold them would someday become sole of the biggest legends holiday all.