Ben&Ben beyond soaring melodies, crowd-pleasing musicality

What started out as light rain quickly deteriorated to a heavy downpour as the nine-member pop-rock/folk-pop band Ben&Ben, the Philippines’ most-streamed artist since 2020, was gearing up for its six-song set at The Island in Uptown BGC last July 30.

But Paolo and Miguel Guico (lead vocals and acoustic guitar) and their colleagues, Poch Barretto (lead guitar), Jam Villanueva (drums), Agnes Reoma (bass), Andrew de Pano (percussion), Toni Muoz (percussion, vocals), Keifer Cabugao (violin) and Patricia Lasaten (keyboard), refused to let the gloomy weather rain on their music-making parade.

After a slight delay, the group took center stage and brought the house down with a clev…

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