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Birth name
  
Tessy Alfonso

Record label
  
UNKNOWN

Role
  
Singer

Name
  
Tessy Alfonso

Labels
  
Unknown

Years active
  
1977–1994, 2010


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Occupation(s)
  
Musician, songwriter, composer

Albums
  
18 greatest hits sampaguita, The Legends Series: Sampaguita Greatest Hits, Sampaguita

Awards
  
Awit Award for Dangal ng Musikang Pilipino

Genres
  
Pinoy rock, Music of the Philippines

Similar
  
Mike Hanopol, Juan de la Cruz Band, Asin, Wally Gonzales, Coritha

Sampaguita


Tessy Alfonso, better known by her stage name Sampaguita, was a Pinoy rock singer from the Philippines during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Sampaguita had released several albums and songs that went successful and now considered classics. She is also dubbed as the queen of Filipino rock music.

Sampaguita bonggahan live


Origins

Sampaguita started out as a model under then-First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos' Bagong Anyo. She was discovered by her then-husband Nilo Santos. Her stage name was coined by the percussionist Nick Boogie, after the species of jasmine locally known as sampaguita, which is also the national flower. Her first performance was at the New Moon Concert in 1977 at the Folk Arts Theater in Pasay, Metro Manila.

Present

In 1994, Alfonso retired from the Philippine music scene when according to her own words "[Life became] too dangerous, with sex, drugs and rock and roll, rock until you drop."

On December 3, 2010, she went onstage again at the Ugat, The Legends of Pinoy Folk Rock concert held at the Araneta Coliseum. She performed along with other Filipino rock artists from the 1970s and 1980s.

Personal life

Alfonso is the mother of three children: Dolly and Kowboy Santos (with Nilo Santos), and Jacinta Romero (with Miguel Romero). Kowboy Santos, is also a musician, and is the frontman of the band Generation. Alfonso currently resides in Parañaque City with Romero and their daughter, Jacinta.

Albums

Sampaguita (1978)
Vol. 2 (1980)
Beatwave (1984)
Sa Ngayon (1992)

Music

  1. Salamat
  2. Tao

References

Sampaguita (singer) Wikipedia


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