Anak

Hi everyone!!!

How are you all??

This is my first post in the year 2015!

I didn't know with which topic to start this year's blogging. And then my friend Jen Santos from Philippines asked me to listen to Gangnam Blues 1970's title song. The song was called Anak. So I just googled it and got some interesting facts for you!!


"Anak" (Filipino for child or more accurately my son or my daughter) is a Tagalog song written by Filipino folk-singer Freddie Aguilar. It was a finalist for the inaugural 1977 Metropop Song Festival held in Manila. It became an international hit, and was translated into 26 languages. The lyrics speak of Filipino family values. The current copyright holder of the song is Star Songs,Inc.

                                


Freddie Aguilar left home at the age of 18 without graduating from school. His father, who had wanted him to be a lawyer, was disappointed. Freddie traveled to faraway places carrying with him only his guitar. With no one to guide and discipline him, he got into gambling. 


Realizing and regretting his mistakes five years later, Freddie composed "Anak", a song of remorse and apology to his parents. He went back home and asked for forgiveness from his parents, who welcomed him with open arms. After his father read the lyrics of "Anak", the two became closer. 


The homecoming proved timely as his father died not long after. According to Felipe de Leon, Jr., an authority on Philippine music, the song was composed in a Western style but has aspects of pasyon, a form that many Filipinos can identify with and Elmer Estrera the co-composer.

"Anak" became a finalist in the first MetroPop Song Festival. It went on to become very popular in the Philippines and eventually abroad. The song generated a hundred cover versions, was released in 56 countries and in 27 different foreign languages, including Japanese, and has sold 30 million copies.Billboard reported that the song was the number one in the U.S. for two weeks and world hit of the 1980s. As of 2006 it was unsurpassed as the all-time highest-selling record of Philippine music.

A successful movie of the same name was released in 2000, with a plot inspired by the lyrics of the song.

Believe me friends, the lyrics are beautiful and thoughtful. Each and every person must read it and respect your parents!!!

Here are the lyrics:

When you were born into this world
your mom and dad saw a dream fulfilled
Dream come true; the answer to their prayers
You were to them a special child
You gave 'em joy every time you smiled
Each time you cried, they're at your side to care
Child, you don't know
you'll never know how far they'd go
to give you all their love can give.
To see you through and God it's true
they'd die for you, if they must, to see you here
How many seasons came and went
so many years have now been spent
for time ran fast and now at last you're strong
Now what has gotten over you
you seem to hate your parents too
Do speak out your mind, why do you find them wrong?
Child you don't know
you'll never know how far they'd go
to give you all their love can give
To see you through and God it's true
they'd die for you, if they must, to see you near
And now your path has gone astray
Child you ain't sure what to do or say
You're so alone, no friends are on your side
And child you now break down in tears
Let them drive away your fears
Where must you go, their arms stay open wide
Child you don't know
You'll never know how far they'd go
to give you all their love can give
To see you through
And God it's true
They'd die for you, if they must, to see you here
Child you don't know
You'll never know how far they'd go
to give you all their love can give
To see you through and God it's true
they'd die for you, if they must, to see you near.

Dear readers,

I got all the facts by googling.

Last but not the least, Thank you Jen Santos for letting me know about Anak. And readers try listening Gangnam Blues 1970 title song!!!