Lola Amour’s ‘Raining in Manila’ wins special award at Music Awards Japan

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Lola Amour‘S HIT Tune “Raining in Manila” was acknowledged through the Music Awards Japan, which introduced the particular prize for Filipino well-liked music house.

Amour’s latest milestone was introduced by the Awards group primarily based in Japan at a ceremony within the Rohm Theater in Kyoto, Japan, on Thursday 22 Could. The OpM band was the one Filipino act that received a prize through the occasion.

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Whereas Lola Amour was absent within the award ceremony, their supervisor, Mika Ordoñez, accepted the prize on their behalf in Japan.

The band’s vocalist, Pio Dumayas, however mentioned in a press assertion that they’re grateful for the possibility to obtain worldwide recognition.

“By no means in our wildest desires we thought we might obtain worldwide recognition and what an honor it was to obtain it through the Music Awards Japan 2025,” he mentioned. “” Raining in Manila “was impressed by the themes of the Stadskop from the 80s, so it will get even nearer to house. For all our associates everywhere in the world who ‘rained in Manila’, that is for you!”

Other than the Philippines, different nations that obtained particular prizes, Zuid -Korea (seventeen), Thailand (Jeff Satur), China (Zhou Shen), Indonesia (Salma Salsabil) and Vietnam (Tùng Dương).

“Raining in Manila” was launched by Lola Amour in June 2023, a couple of yr earlier than it was recorded of their debut studio album. As a result of the track was launched through the spotlight of the wet season, it was on the prime of the Spotify Philippines hit and it turned one of many largest hits within the nation on the time.

Among the outstanding recognitions of the track are Tune of the Yr, File of the Yr, Greatest Pop Recording and Greatest Parody Recording (for his or her Michael V. Collaboration, “Ready right here Sa Pila”) on the AWIT Awards 2024.

The band just lately dropped their single “Dance with my errors” and can launch their new track “Misbehave” on 30 Could.

In an interview with Inquirer.Internet, Dunayas mentioned that they launch their album that they regard them as a “overdue” venture.

“We have now postponed it sufficient to the purpose that Nagbabago after style Namin (our style modifications), not our complete coronary heart made it for the music. It felt as if there was additionally a sure diploma of, we owed ourselves to finish this, particularly earlier,” he mentioned. /ra