Instituto Cervantes pays tribute to the Manila-born musician Luis Eduardo Aute

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On November 18, Instituto Cervantes and the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines will pay tribute to the Manila-born artist and musician Luis Eduardo Aute, with an online concert in which several Filipino singers will cover select iconic songs by Aute. The event, Con tu latido: Filipinas canta a Aute. A Tribute, will be streamed at 7pm on the Instituto Cervantes Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/InstitutoCervantesManila

 

 

A reputed artist and popular musician in Spain in the latter part of the 20th century, Luis Eduardo Aute was born in Manila on 13 September 1943. His father, a Catalan working for Tabacalera since 1919, married a Spanish Filipina. In his childhood, Aute studied at the De La Salle School, where he learned English and Tagalog. At an early age, he showed unusual ability as a painter and sketcher.

At the age of eight, he made his first trip to Spain, and in 1954, his family had eventually settled there. Living in Madrid, Aute initially planned to be an architect but left the university almost immediately to pursue a variety of career paths —art, film, and music. By the 1970s, he was creating soundtracks for films directed by Jaime Chávarri, Luis García Berlanga, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Angelino Fons, Fernando Méndez, among others. The 1970s also saw the consolidation of Aute as a singer, with hits like Las cuatro y diez, or Al alba. His successful career saw the following decades with other chart-toppers like Pasaba por aquí, Sin tu latido, La belleza, and Slowly.

A multi-talented creator, Aute passed away in September 2020, leaving behind a vast collection of works in several fields, in literature, music, cinema and painting. Now, seven Filipino singers are gathering to pay tribute to his musical legacy by covering some of his most iconic songs in Spanish.

 

Popular singer-actress Bituin Escalante will render one of the first Aute’s hits, Rosas en el mar, released in 1966.

 

Mark Anthony Carpio, choirmaster of the Philippine Madrigal Singers, will perform La belleza.

 

Toma Cayabyab, a member of the Ateneo Chamber Singers and the Villancico Vocal Ensemble, and leader of his own jazz sextet, Debonair District, will sing another famous composition by Aute, Libertad.

 

Julius Sinoy, who was a Tenor for the University of the Philippines Concert Chorus (UPCC) from 2013 to 2016, will offer his rendition of Aute’s piece Dos o tres segundos de ternura.

 

Fascinated by music at an early age, James Barbecho joined a relatively small church choir at 11 years old. Since then, his passion for music only grew and he has been performing everywhere, from cafés to college events. He will be covering Siento que te estoy perdiendo, a song made popular by Aute in 1981.

 

Sheila Ferrer is a Filipino soprano who has performed as a soloist in both local and international productions. She performed the role of Adina (L’elisir d’Amore), and Serpina (La Serva Padrona). Sheila will cover Slowly, a popular theme released by Aute in 1992.

 

Finally, Ella Castro, a graduate of BM-Music Education from University of the Philippines-Diliman, will render her version of Aute’s Sin tu latido. Ella is a composer, singer, conductor, and an actress who is currently taking her Masters of Music at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

The concert will be completed by Spanish singer Rosa León’s rendition of Mirándonos los dos, a song released by Aute in 1980.

 

The concert Con tu latido. Filipinas canta a Aute is organized by Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines and Intramuros Administration. Admission is free. For further information about the event, you may visit the website of Instituto Cervantes at https://manila.cervantes.es or Facebook page at www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila

ePLDT expands TIA-942 certifications to four data centers—most in PH

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ePLDT further continues to fortify the reliability of its data center services as it expands its TIA-942 Design Certifications to four data centers—currently the most number of the said global certification achieved by a data center service provider in the country.

 

The design certification means that ePLDT’s data center facilities conform to the stringent standards of TIA-942 guidelines ensuring that any data center component—including major apparatus and equipment—can be removed, replaced, or repaired without disrupting the operations of its customers.

 

ePLDT currently owns the largest telco-neutral data center network in the country under the VITRO brand, which are strategically located across the Philippine archipelago. To date, only five data centers in the country have received the said TIA-942 Design Certification rating, four of which are from ePLDT including VITRO Makati, VITRO Clark, VITRO Cebu 2, and the newly-accredited VITRO Parañaque. 

  

Nico Alcoseba, VP & Head of ICT Business for PLDT Enterprise, said that the new certification is a testament of ePLDT’s commitment to ensuring the availability and reliability of its customers’ critical data needs.

 

“Our customers rely on us for quality data center services for their mission-critical applications. And we at the PLDT Group are continuously fortifying our capabilities to meet the growing demands of our customers, and this latest certification is an attestation to our commitment of providing reliable data center services that will support their business resiliency and continuity,” said Alcoseba.

 

The TIA-942 Certification is a Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) program globally recognized as an industry benchmark for telecommunications data centers. It provides a detailed design specification for a highly available, secure, and well-connected facility to meet today’s IT assurance requirements.

 

The design guidelines set forth by ANSI/TIA-942 emphasize the redundancy design of data centers infrastructures to secure the highest availability during unplanned maintenance and infrastructure expansion without disrupting the services of colocation customers.

 

VITRO Parañaque is assured of achieving a minimum service availability of 99.99 percent uptime after its recently completed transformation program. This fortified the power efficiency, redundancy, and resiliency of the data center facility through power systems upgrades such as upstreaming of power redundancy and equipment modernization such as the upgrading of generator sets.

 

“As an end-to-end ICT service provider, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our infrastructure to better meet the needs of our clients. This new certification assures our clients of our commitment to always provide quality and reliable data center services,” said Dave Simon, ePLDT Chief Technology Officer and Cloud & Data Center Business Operations Head.

 

ePLDT has been aggressively growing its data center facilities since 2000, establishing itself as the Philippines’ premier data center provider. It is the largest telco-neutral data center in the country—maintaining 10 data centers and disaster recovery facilities with a 9,000-rack capacity and 26 MW of total IT capacity—ready for enterprise and hyperscaler needs such as colocation, cloud hosting, disaster recovery, managed servers, security, and network services.

 

For more information, visit epldt.com.

Get to know more about the founder of Wazzup Pilipinas

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He's been living a life full of rare perks and special privileges but all that in exchange of exerting extra effort in making a recognizable online presence not just for him but mostly for the personalities, brands, events and companies he is collaborating with.

Ross Del Rosario is the man behind Wazzup Pilipinas, a lifestyle and news blog  that has been around since 2013. Ross graduated from Mapua University, formerly known as Mapua Institute of Technology, with a course of Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) and after graduation had a career revolving around Information Technology, the last of which was with the United Nations World Food Programme before he decided to setup his own business during a time when being an entrepreneur was a cool thing to be. Being the boss of his own business, it gave him the time to also become active online when social media, such as Facebook, became a popular way to share your thoughts and reunite with acquaintances like distant relatives and childhood friends, former schoolmates and classmates and colleagues from his previous employments, got in.touch with relatives who are living in the provinces or have migrated to different countries, and even gained him new friends online. 

Social media also led him to extend his online presence into creating his own blog site, but Wazzup Pilipinas was not born instantly, it took him a lot of trials and experiments creating other blogs before he finally settled on making Wazzup Pilipinas his only blog.

Ross, also known as the Pambansang Blogger, originally intended his branding as nothing more but his fun or humorous way of attracting attention but later on decided to continue using it when he noticed it opened more opportunities for him. Thus he tried to embrace the "national blogger" gimmick into a reality by promoting more about Filipino products and Philippine destinations like his recent 5-day tour of Oriental Mindoro as part of the Department of Tourism's Philippine Tourism Influencers where they visited various parts of the province to serve as a campaign to revive tourism back to its former glory.

Formerly Pasig-based and a busy blogger covering mostly product launches, presscons, and other blogger events, he took advantages of the free time brought about by the quarantines due to the covid-19 pandemic to renovate their unused Montalban, Rizal home into a now useful "blogging studio" where he has more space or room to move around, and to also level-up his hobbies like being a Plantito growing edible plants like vegetables and herbs, doing baking experiments like their own sushi bakes, muffins, and pizza, plus other productive stuff to keep himself busy.

He firmly believes that together with the people we meet on our events coverage or travels, we should all proudly make noise and shout-out to the world. Never mahihiyang ipagsigawan ang pangalan ng ating bansang Pilipinas dahil tunay na maraming dahilan para ipagmalaki ito... 

As much as possible, Ross always make the shout-out part of his blogging tasks, to actively engage more people to join in and set aside all inhibitions. The laughter or smiles he gets from most people he interviews or interacts with after doing the shout-out is rewarding enough...and there have been many instances when they do remember the shout-out more than his name.