Love of Community Through Songs
Dante Beriong |
TEDxYouth@PSHSWVC
• September 2018
If there’s a festive-sounding Kinaray-a or Hiligaynon song in your head, chances are that Dante Beriong was the one who wrote it. Aside from the Kinaray-a classic “Mauli Gid Ako Sa Antique” and the Iloilo Dinagyang Festival’s “Hala Bira Iloilo!”, Beriong is also known for having written the 1997 Philippine Centennial Independence Theme entitled “Mabuhay Ka, Pilipino!” He currently classifies himself as an OKM artist -- Original Kinaray-a Music, the language of Antique, his home.