Kuerdas Lead Vocals: Up Close & Personal

I have already introduced Mark in my previous post. He is no less than the charm of the band. He wasn’t born a singer. In fact, we haven’t imagined in my family that he could have that talent in singing one day. He is the youngest of three siblings. I saw him grow up and even sang him to sleep when he was 2 years old and I was 6. I’m no good at baby-sitting chores but I was left with no choice because I am the eldest.

Mark, Yayan, Utog are one and the same person. His friends love to give him different names. This brother of mine can be well awarded for being the most accommodating person in the world. Even if he haven’t got enough sleep because of successive shows, this wouldn’t come as a barrier for him not to entertain his friends. I think he got this trait from my father.

Oh speaking of my late father, when Mark was born, he looked a little different. His skin color is different from the 3 of us especially his nose. He got a fine nose (unlike ours, haha) and very nice color. He would even always tease me that my face is just the color of his bum, hahaha! Forgive my father but he doubted his fatherhood with Mark. He wanted to be sure. Off they went to the nearest hospital and took lab test to know if they had the same or different blood types. And guess what they’ve found out? They both got the same type of blood!

While Mark was growing up, my family haven’t had any inkling at all that he would take center stage one day. He used to be his big brother’s back up, just bringing the musical intruments for him because he was never part of any musical group unlike his Kuya. But one day, his Kuya was able to see his potential and encouraged him to practice and he was given a big responsiblity when Kuya decided to put up a separate band together with our cousin Allena as the female lead singer. That’s when we’ve discovered he has some talents hidden within him. It’s no joke having to perform along side with premier bands here in the city more so to front act for big artists like Bamboo and MYMP.

Aside from singing, he is a computer “something” graduate, haha but haven’t put to good use because his attention was diverted to singing and some other things. He loves to “butingting” gadgets with the intention of fixing them but damage them in the process, haha! And he’s one very naughty lad. While I was waiting for my team to play in Game 1 of the Championships, he announced to everyone that maybe there was a storm in Manila because “NO signal” was indicated in the TV channel. I was so disappointed until I’ve discovered that he detached the TV antenna so I couldn’t watch my favorite team playing in the Finals. Really naughty, huh! There’s more tell-tales about him but I will be doing more of them as I try to regularly update this blog (my fingers crossed, hehe).

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