Fast Talk with Boy Abunda: Dulce reflects on her iconic song ‘Ako Ang Nasawi, Ako Ang Nagwagi!’ (Episode 429)

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00:00This song, you signed this in?

00:08The second Metro Pop.

00:10That's right.

00:11Yeah, in 1979.

00:12All right.

00:13And then, we did not quite make it to the top, but I was sent to represent our country

00:19to the Asian Singing Competition, that time, Tony Barrero and Cadre Valencia, their reason

00:27is that we need to send a singer to compete in a singing competition, and we won the grand

00:34prize.

00:35Of course.

00:36So, I decided to sing at home, but it really worked out.

00:49How was that relationship, professional relationship, between you and the great George Canseco?

00:54Well, of course, towards the end, it was really okay, because when he got sick, I took him

01:01to the hospital.

01:02He surrendered his life to the Lord, and after a week, he passed away, and I was sure that

01:09he was really safe, that he was in paradise.

01:12But the times after that, actually, they were really mad at me, because my head was hard.

01:19I was, I'm a rebel, because they were already planning for an album, the album was already

01:25signed, that's why I didn't agree to do my face.

01:30So, you didn't want to do your face, because they were already planning for you to be beautiful.

01:37To be a beauty queen.

01:38Yes.

01:39I really didn't want to.

01:41They brought me to Mahati Medical Center, they measured my nose.

01:45I didn't know this.

01:46Yes, I didn't tell you this.

01:47Yes, I didn't know this.

01:48Then, they brought me there.

01:51You know, you're not really prepared.

01:53Even, maybe, because I didn't want to give up, so they brought me to the clinic.

01:57They have a ruler, because back then, it was just a computer, right?

01:59Now, it's a computer, you just have to choose which nose.

02:01So, now, they have a ruler like that.

02:04Then, they said, what's that?

02:06Then, drawing, drawing.

02:07Then, they said, they'll fix it.

02:09No, I ran away.

02:10I really ran away.

02:11I said, no, I really can't move.

02:14Because I really believe, boy, that even if I came here, I reached Manila, it's because

02:19of the voice that God gave me.

02:21Now, I have a fear that if I move my nose, it will really change, or anything will happen.

02:27That was your personal belief.

02:29How do you take care of your voice?

02:32Because for a long time, since we've known each other, the brilliance is still there,

02:37everything is still there.

02:39Really?

02:40It's true.

02:41Praise God.

02:42But, what about the technique?

02:43How did you learn how to use your voice?

02:45Actually, I don't know what technique you're talking about.

02:47You know, I remember, Menchu Lauchenko, our very dear Menchu, this was in 1996, I remember.

02:52When she asked me, she said to me, Dulce, you know, with the way you sing, your style

02:59of singing, at this time, in 1996, from the time I started, she said, you shouldn't have

03:05a voice.

03:06She said, what technique do you use?

03:08At that time, the sound was new to me.

03:11What technique do you use?

03:12Because I didn't know what technique.

03:14So, I just sing.

03:15Whatever comes out, that's it.

03:18My first vocal coach was actually the mother of Cecil Azarcon, Minda Azarcon.

03:24I was brought to her so that she can teach me how to lower my voice because I was too

03:31loud.

03:32Everything was belting, belting, belting.

03:35I said, I don't know if there's a need for soft, soft.

03:41But maybe because I was in the fields at that time, I just wanted to hear people.

03:46You just sang in the fields?

03:47I just sang in the fields.

03:48I practiced in the trees of Bayaba, on top of a tank.

03:52We didn't have a TV, radio, whatever.

03:59Where was this, Dulce?

04:00Just for the youth.

04:01In Villa Bulsita, Bulacau, Pardo, Cebu.

04:04We were close to the river, to the foot of the mountain.

04:08So when my younger siblings would put me to sleep on the hill, I would sing.

04:13I would sing in front of the window so that I could have someone watching me.

04:17And because I thought, all the people back then were really singing.

04:22That's what was on your mind?

04:23That's what was on my mind because everyone was singing, especially in Visayas, especially

04:27in Cebu.

04:28So I felt like I needed to do something good or be loud so that they can hear me and notice

04:33me.

04:34You wanted to be with people and you wanted an audience.

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