The Anthem Philatelist

      Ryan Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab is an icon in Philippine music industry and my idol since the Ryan Ryan Musikahan days in the 80's. He is one of the those who inspired me to continue learning and playing the  piano until the present.    I love his piano playing, arrangements, compositional style and the joy which he exudes while he is on his piano. I almost have his complete CDs (more than 20) which i started collecting since the first CDs came out in the 80s, including the instrumentals as rendered by the San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra and Master Chorale,  Roots to Routes Jazz album, Christmas Albums, A Capella Albums, Commercial CD he made for Dunkin Donut and rare works like his Sacred Music which won the Onassis International Cultural Competition for Original Music Composition for Dance and Spoliarium , an opera on Juan Luna with coloratura soprano and National Artist for Music, Fides Cuyugan Asencio .    I also collected a...

I have been buying and collecting CDs since the 80's until the stores stopped selling them around 2010. This collection started when my Dad came home from the US in 1984 bringing with him one of the first CDs to ever come out of the US market.  It was a CD of Pat Benatar from her Live from Earth Album with the hit song Love is a Battlefield and Yes Owner of the Lonely Heart 90125 album. Thirty years after,  I have collected around 2K CDs with complete Albums and sets (mostly 80's and alternative rock, up to the time when the the CD stores closed)  of The Beatles , Queen , U2 , The Police , The Cure , Madonna , Green Day , Duran Duran , Tears for Fears , Depeche Mode , Stone Temple Pilots , Dishwalla , Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins , and many more.  My two favorite Filipino Artists to collect are Ryan Cayabyab and Eraserheads . I completed the collection through buying the physical CD in stores, here and abroad, and when the stores disappeared- online. Nowadays m...