In Bisaya, there’s a word called puhon. It’s a word that’s hard to translate directly, so you look for approximates — someday, maybe even somehow. It was a word that was founded on hope; a declaration to the world that something, by the grace of God or a higher being, will happen. When you have a word as potent as puhon, it finds its way into the nooks and crannies of the culture that surrounds it. It was a word for the dreamers. Those who trusted the process. I’d like to think that that was the case for Urbandub. They were dreamers in the truest sense of the word — Gabby Alipe, Lalay Lim, John Dinopol and even former members like Jerros Dolino, JanJan Mendoza, and Jed Honrado — all people who wanted to cling onto music by any means possible. Formed at the start of the new millennium, Urbandub..
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