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Arnold Escobilla Zamora is a Filipino musician known in the national music industry as a singer, composer, arranger and conductor. As a seminarian... at the UST Central seminary, he founded the Psalterion Choir. At the University of the Philippines, he joined the Philippine Madrigal Singers and is the founder of the Chorus Paulinus. He is also the founder and music director of the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran. Zamora has also conducted the Philippine Consulate Choir of the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco, California, the Filipino Priests Concert in San Francisco, California, and FilAmusika, a group of Filipino and American young adults formed by Zamora. Arnold Zamora was born on February 10, 1961, in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines, to Andres Zamora and Ricarda Escobilla. He and his two sisters grew up in the outskirts district of Taloto. He went to the then-College of the Holy Spirit for his elementary education from 1966 to 1973.
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Yoyoy Villame born Roman Tesorio Villame, was a Filipino singer, composer, lyricist, and comedian. Villame was a native of Calape, Bohol and was the... father of singer Hannah Villame. He died of cardiac arrest at the Las Piñas Medical Center in Metro Manila on May 18, 2007. Roman Tesorio, youngest among ten children of a fisherman father and fishseller mother, Roman Tesorio started composing songs for the Boy Scouts in his elementary days. Dropping out after his second year in high school, Roman Tesorio enlisted to become a soldier-trainee of the Philippine Army. Being unhappy in his post in Pampanga, he asked for a discharge after the surrender of rebel leader Luis Taruc. Roman Tesorio would become a passenger jeepney driver plying the Baclaran-Pasay Taft-Santa Cruz-Dimasalang route. During the ten years of driving jeeps, he would compete in amateur nights held at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo but only to lose because of his strong Visayan accent. In 1965, Roman Tesorio went back to Bohol to become a bus driver of the MB Liner fleet, where he had a bus numbered 13 that plied the Tagbilaran-Ubay-Talibon route.
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