Manuel Kabajar Cabase

Manuel Kabajar Cabase aka as Mahnee Cabase or Manny Cabase is a Filipino composer, instrumentalist, and musical director for Visayan movies. Cabase was a singer, songwriter, musical director, computer musician, instrumentalist of at leastmusical instruments, arranger, conductor, bandleader and musical director. He is also known to his fans as Manny Cabase in the Philippines andor Mahnee Cabase in the USA. Cabase is the father of the nationallyknown singer, author, actress, Amapola. Cabases music is now included in the new Jose R. Gullas Halad Museum in Cebu City. The Halad Museum opened its doors and honoring Cabase and other awardees February 02, 2010

Cabase was born in San Nicolas, Cebu City, to Roman Catholic parents, Sonsa and Ireneo Cabase. His father was an accordionist and a traveling musician with a Vaudeville group. Cabase was a child prodigy, learning to play piano on his own atand learning guitar at age 6. Attending academic schools halted his selfeducation but at agehe was a guitarist, vocalist, and arranger for the local band of San Nicolas.

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