Marga Jayy Returns With Comeback Single “Buhol-Buhol”
The Bulacan-raised neo-soul artist makes her comeback with a new single mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Gerard Hairston.
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Courtesy of Marga Jayy
Filipino neo-soul artist Marga Jayy returns with her comebackComebackA comeback refers to an established artist or group's highly anticipated new release following a period of relative inactivity, a term borrowed from broader Asian pop industry convention. P-pop groupsGo to Comeback Glossary single, “Buhol-Buhol,” out November 13, 2026.
A decade in the making, the Bulacan-raised artist’s latest release enlists Grammy-winning engineer Gerard Hairston for mastering and Enrique Santamaria for mixing.
Inspired by Australian jazz, funk, R&B, and soul outfit Hiatus Kaiyote, Jayy wrote the track in 2015 while contemplating resigning from her corporate job to pursue her first love: music.
“It took over a decade to finally get the song to where I wanted it to be,” she says in a press statement. “Gabe Dandan has been a longtime friend and has played guitar on some of my previous releases, but this is our first time working together with him as a producerProducerThe person who guides the creative and technical process of making a recording, shaping its sound, arrangement, and overall quality. Producers can write, compose, engineer, and direct performances, and aGo to Producer Glossary. It’s also the only track we’ve co-produced that I’ll be releasing so far, so hopefully there’ll be more to come!”
The track explores the idea of meeting people and encountering familiar experiences time and time again across different lifetimes and universes. Coming from a conservative, Catholic background, Jayy initially did not believe in reincarnation.
However, after reading Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss, she had a change of perspective, which eventually influenced her musical craft. “It opened me up to the idea that some experiences and connections might go beyond what we can explain logically,” she says.
During the pandemic, she dealt with anxiety and started exploring holistic approaches to health. “My doctor, Dr. Homer Lim, practices past-life regression, and I watched his videos sharing stories of clients who were able to resolve their depression and other personal struggles through the process,” she explains.
This experience led her to become more open to the idea, with hopes of exploring it further someday. Additionally, the cover art for her comeback single was also created by hand by Filipino artist RS08.
At a time when AI continues to have its handprint on the art world, Jayy further emphasizes her love for and dedication to her craft, extending that appreciation to the cover art, saying, “I’d love to highlight that part of the release as well and give the artwork and the person behind it some love.”
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Marga Jayy’s comeback single “Buhol-Buhol” arrives November 13, 2026, a decade after she first wrote it in 2015.
It explores meeting people and encountering familiar experiences across different lifetimes and universes, shaped by Jayy’s openness to reincarnation.
Gabe Dandan produced the track with Jayy; Enrique Santamaria mixed it and Grammy-winning engineer Gerard Hairston mastered it.
Hiatus Kaiyote inspired the track, which Jayy wrote in 2015 while weighing whether to leave her corporate job for music.
Filipino artist RS08 hand-created the single’s cover art, which Jayy highlighted amid AI’s growing presence in the art world.
