Fast Talk with Boy Abunda: Raymond Lauchengco, babalik na sa pagiging singer! (Episode 432)

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Aired (September 25, 2024): Mula sa pagiging direktor, visual artist, skulptor, at marami pang iba, bakit naisipan muli ni Raymond Lauchengco na bumalik sa pagkanta? Alamin ang kanyang sagot sa video!

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00:00And talking about the work, wow, great times when you were just starting out.

00:10You entered the industry, you had a film with Sharon, you were the leading man of Maricel Soriano,

00:16you had a hit, your songs were being composed by the best composers here in the Philippines.

00:22How can you be luckier?

00:25Right?

00:26Yes, that's true.

00:27Who are the contemporaries that we're talking about?

00:31In acting or in singing?

00:32I mean, you know, I know in the theater, Sound of Music.

00:35Sound of Music, yeah, Lea Salonga, my sister Menchu, Senator Ontiveros.

00:39And even your sister Menchu, and then Monique Wilson was there.

00:44Anyway, so aside from the theater, when you say musical contemporaries, who are these?

00:51Martin.

00:52Martin started a few months ahead of me, and then I came into the picture.

00:55And then if I'm not mistaken, Gary a few months later.

00:58But aside from them, there were others, right?

01:01And I'm talking about Gino.

01:04Yes, Gino, Randy, Kino.

01:07Those were happy times.

01:10But since you mentioned Gary and Martin, when you were starting in the career of Raymond

01:15Blauchenko, the singer, did you watch them?

01:18Yes.

01:19They were some of the biggest names.

01:20And some people would even say that, you know, Raymond is there, you know?

01:25You know, those two guys are my idols.

01:27Martin is the concert king, and Gary is, well, he's like the ultimate performer.

01:31I really look up to these guys very, very much.

01:34But, you know, we're all different from each other.

01:37One of the things that I admire most about Martin and Gary is that they saw the goal,

01:41they saw the destination, and they went straight for it.

01:44For me, I had this creative restlessness in me that I saw the destination, but the journey

01:50was just as important.

01:51So, if I was going down the highway, I'd see something interesting on the right, professional

01:56photography, I would stop.

01:58That's what you did.

01:59I saw directing.

02:00You went there.

02:01I stopped for years, because it takes time to get good at these things.

02:04And then I really forced a stop in the pandemic because everything stopped for all of us.

02:08So, I went into visual art.

02:10So, for me, the journey has been just as exciting as the destination.

02:14Wonderful.

02:15You know, and of course, in the industry, when you watch the journey, the trajectory

02:20of your journey, Raymond was there, and then suddenly, he's not so active.

02:27Now, that explains it.

02:28Because you went to directing, you went to visual art.

02:32I directed over 500 events.

02:33I remember that.

02:34I had a studio.

02:35Correct.

02:36I became a sculptor.

02:37Are you happy?

02:38Oh, yes.

02:39It's beautiful, right?

02:40Yes, yes, yes, yes.

02:41I wish I had more time for all of my dreams.

02:44But, you know, life is short, so you got to choose the dreams.

02:47What are the dreams that are not fulfilled?

02:49Well, now, I'm pretty much satisfied.

02:51You are?

02:52I can say I've achieved or I've dabbled into the major dreams.

02:58I can't achieve them all because there's little time.

03:00So, now, I want to concentrate on singing.

03:03I think it's time to go back.

03:05Time to say thank you to the audiences who have, you know, supported me for the last 40 years.

03:10This is the time to say thank you?

03:11This is the time to say thank you.

03:12Okay.

03:13But, since you're going back to singing, are you going to go back to what?

03:16Maybe you're going to go into producing.

03:18You're going to go into directing.

03:19No.

03:20I will leave that headache for others.

03:21My wife.

03:22My wife can produce.

03:23Me, I will sing.

03:24You just want to sing.

03:25I just want to sing.

03:26And, Just Got Lucky is also considered to be the song of your life.

03:31It is.

03:32Why?

03:33Because I've been blessed.

03:34Correct.

03:35Using the word blessed.

03:36I've been blessed.

03:37But, in the theme song of the movie Baguettes, where you were with William Martinez, Aga,

03:42JC,

03:43JC Bonin,

03:44William,

03:45Herbert Bautista,

03:47Herbert Bautista,

03:48and the girls, of course, Sina Yula, Sina John, Sina Cheska.

03:50Right.

03:51How did the life of Baguettes change?

03:53Oh, it changed terribly, because after that movie, I was like, oh, my God.

03:58Anything else that I do will forever be second to being a Baguette, you know?

04:03I go out sometimes.

04:04Even now, right?

04:05Oh, yeah.

04:06Even now.

04:07A few months ago, I was in Australia.

04:08I saw someone.

04:09They go, hey, Raymond Lauchenko, Baguettes, Baguettes.

04:11And, they do this, you know?

04:13And, so, I do this also, you know, just to be polite.

04:16You're at the mall.

04:17What are you doing?

04:18I'm on the escalator.

04:19How are you, Raymond?

04:20How are you doing?

04:21Yeah.

04:22Okay.

04:23So, for a while, I didn't know how to react to it, because I was like, you know, I've

04:29done other things.

04:30But, now, you know, boy, it's really about gratitude.

04:33I just embrace it.

05:01Bye.

05:02Bye.

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