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WHO IS FEDERICO?
Epic Chanter
Sulod-Bukidnon
Calinog, Iloilo
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Awarded Gawad ng Manlilikha ng Bayan for the year 2000
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Born on December 25,1938
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Comes from a long family line of Epic chanters and learned epic from his mother as she lulls him and his siblings to sleep by chanting an episode timed with the gentle swing of the hammock.
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He began his works when both his anggoy and mother passed away.
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Also known as Nong Pedring
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His works contain traditions, lessons, daily life of their community, teaches lessons applied in real life, and how we interact with the environment.
The Epic Chanter
federico
caballero
Sources:
https://press.up.edu.ph/project/amburukay-sugidanon-epics-of-panay-book-2/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28139693-tikum-kadlum
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0080/3546/7343/products/Tikum_Kadlum.Sugidanon_900x600.jpeg?v=1561661668
more about him
Federico “Tuohan” Caballero
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Birth: December 25, 1938
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Federico Caballero was born seventy-six years ago near the stream of the river Pan-ay at the border of Masaroy, Calinog, and Tapaz, Capiz. A Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) Awardee for the year 2000, he comes from a long family line of epic chanters. Such exposures harnessed his skill and love for epic chanting (sugidanun) at an early age. In SY 2000–2001, together with Dr. Alicia P. Magos, he helped pioneer the first School for Living Tradition (SLT) in the Visayas located in Barangay Garangan, on the border of Tapaz, Capiz, and Calinog, Iloilo. In that informal weekend schooling, he is helped by his siblings and relatives in teaching epic chanting together with the other arts.