![]() In 2016, South Korean entertainment company ShowBT branched out in the Philippines and opened a talent audition for Filipinos aspiring to become professional performers. After graduating, Santos worked as a computer technician and a call center agent prior to auditioning as a talent. Santos and family struggled financially leading to his intermittent schooling, and graduated high school at a later age. In the same tell-all vlog, Santos revealed that he was a victim of domestic violence by their nanny while their mother was at work. He revealed on a YouTube vlog that a single mother raised him and he never met his biological father. He is the youngest in the family along with two sisters. Josh was born on Octoin Las Piñas, Metro Manila, Philippines to Aldrene Stephanie Santos. He is the lead rapper and sub-vocalist of the Filipino boy band SB19 managed under ShowBT Philippines. A K-pop fan account using the handle tweeted a video of the group practising the dance to the single in September, 2019 and the clip picked up almost 4.5m views.Josh Cullen Santos (born October 22, 1993), sometimes known by his stage name Josh, is a Filipino singer, producer, songwriter, dancer, and a professional gamer. It was with the 2019 follow-up, Go Up, that things really took off though. In finest K-pop fashion, once selected Josh, Pablo, Stell, Ken, and Justin were then put through almost three years of rigorous training in how to be the perfect pop stars by their mentor agency and were connected with Korean writers and producers before being unleashed on the world with their debut single Tilaluha at the end of 2018. The band were created by the newly formed Philippines branch of Korean entertainment agency ShowBT after an extensive talent search in 2016 – their name comes from the SB of their agency, and subtracting the Philippine’s international dialling code, +63, from Korea’s +82. SB19 are perhaps the most obviously K-pop-influenced of the current crop of Pinoy stars. All photos: Antonie Robertson / The National SB19įilipino boy band SB19 performed at Expo 2020 Dubai on March 16, 2022. Here are some of the key players in what may come to be looked back upon as something of a golden era for Pinoy pop. Over the past decade or so, however, as K-pop and J-pop have become increasingly popular across the Philippines and rapid economic growth has allowed for better production and glossier stars, Pinoy pop has undergone something of a metamorphosis, shaking off many of the western influences that had underpinned its musical output for so long in place of something distinctly Asian, but also unmistakably Filipino. P-pop, or Pinoy pop, may not have achieved quite the same global status as its Pacific cousins K-pop or J-pop, at least not yet, but if the adoring crowds packed into Expo 2020 Dubai’s DEC Arena for Filipino boy band SB19’s show on Wednesday night are any indication, it may be not too far behind.įor much of the 1990s and early 2000s, the Filipino music scene was largely dominated at one end of the spectrum by gnarly, in-your-face rock outfits, as any frequent visitor to Bur Dubai’s sadly missed Music Room venue could confirm, and at the other by schmaltzy love songs performed by the latest “love team” sensation from the movies. ![]()
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