00:00So I'll be going, I'm going to tail and Mary Bottle could jump,
00:03pretending I was playing the piano on the podium.
00:04You got a lot of fun, baby.
00:06Oh, baby.
00:06I want this side of the glove.
00:08Yeah, baby.
00:09Woo, baby.
00:12When I'm on classical, oh, oh, hip hop.
00:31I learned the ukulele at age eight.
00:35I was in Baguio.
00:37We were living then with my grandfather.
00:40We had a condominium of four units there,
00:43and we shared it with some uncles.
00:46And I went to the garage, and this driver of my lolo,
00:51his name was Onorio, I still remember,
00:54was playing the ukulele.
00:57That's how I learned.
00:58I learned a few chords from him.
01:00Then I shifted to the guitar when I was about,
01:03I think about 11, 10, 11.
01:08And my first guitar had a very high action.
01:12You know, the action is the space
01:14between the string and the fretboard.
01:16I just bought a guitar from Raon,
01:19Lumano Guitar Yata.
01:22Lumano Guitar Yata.
01:25Nasusugatan ako.
01:27Lalaki ng mga strings.
01:29Wala pa ng YouTube, mahirap talaga.
01:31I don't really remember, I just,
01:33I guess just by looking at movies or whatever,
01:37people knew the chord A and D, so that was not too hard.
01:41But the real hard one was the technique.
01:44How could they bend the string like this?
01:48If the string was so large, you know,
01:51they invented strings that were very thin.
01:54First they used banjo strings dito sa,
01:57to bend, mga blues players.
02:00Anyway, that's another story.
02:02So we were not, kasi in the Philippines,
02:05you could not really learn from anybody rock and roll,
02:08because we were the pioneers.
02:10And even in the States, sila Elvis,
02:12yung mga gitarista ni Elvis ako.
02:14So wala kami, just no peers to look at,
02:17how do you do this?
02:19I don't know, I guess we developed slowly, you know.
02:22I would say that we were really the pioneers,
02:25like the Ventures, Shadows, yung mga gano'n.
02:27Yung full electric man instrumental.
02:30So I liked instrumentals,
02:32because you sounded like a foreign, a foreign band.
02:37Baiso hindi narinig ang boss mo, hindi narinig ang accent mo.
02:40So when they hear, ayan ba yung Ventures or something?
02:44Pero kami yun, maysa.
02:47So, I mean, it was our way
02:50on how to open up to the universal.
02:53I made my first hit when I was actually 15,
02:57because after my gig in Ateneo,
03:00which was December 5, 1960,
03:03at that time, the fever,
03:06the combo fever swept the country, garage bands.
03:10So everybody was putting up instrumental bands.
03:14The Ventures in America were the most famous instrumental band.
03:19Now they call it surf music.
03:22They called it surf music, but it was not like that.
03:26And then the Shadows in England.
03:38I made my first hit when I was 15,
03:41Weightless, instrumental number.
03:53Simple na.
03:55So Weightless, it sounded like space, so I called it Weightless.
03:58It became a big hit, released by Dyna Records, James D.
04:03So I had my first record when I was between 15 and 16, yeah,
04:071961, and my own composition pa.
04:10At that time, we were just recording sa bahay.
04:13Yung mga stereo sets ng parents ko,
04:16kino-convert ko sa recording studio.
04:18Pero it worked, no?
04:20But the first multitrack came out.
04:23Multitrack means maraming tracks, no?
04:25You saw that multitrack there upstairs?
04:27Yung tatlo?
04:28It was only first, it was mono-rall and then stereo.
04:31That was the first multitrack, patlo lang.
04:33The Beatles came, four track na.
04:36The Beatles recorded on four tracks,
04:38that was the first one.
04:40So I convinced my mother, you know,
04:44to buy me a recording studio.
04:47So I sent her a studio because she knew that it was my passion.
04:52And my father played piano, so he encouraged me.
04:54Like recording John Marie Chan, Sepulita,
04:57the advertising agencies.
04:59So we were, and then Cinema Ojo was already a good recording
05:04owned by John Jose Marie Gonzalez.
05:08But we were the first ones that had that multitrack.
05:17In the backyard of our home, near the swimming pool,
05:21there was a lanay.
05:23And in one of the dressing rooms,
05:25kino-convert ko into a radio station.
05:29At that time, pa nay AM pa eh.
05:31Walang FM.
05:32There were only about, I don't know, maybe 10 stations
05:35in the whole Philippines, AM.
05:38So wala pang FM noon.
05:41So I leased a station, a frequency.
05:45And then one or two years after,
05:49I got a franchise.
05:53Alone na, I went to the congressman,
05:55I said, can you sign my petition for a franchise?
05:58So, you're the son of Don Fernando Sinto?
06:02You're the son of Fernando Sinto?
06:04What are you doing here?
06:05Well, I want to put up a radio station.
06:07Can you sign my petition for a franchise?
06:09Yun.
06:11So eventually I owned my own station.
06:21I was grade 7, and my classmates,
06:24couldn't watch for a deal.
06:26One of my classmates texted me what happened.
06:28One afternoon, I was grade 7.
06:31I don't know how old I was, maybe 11.
06:34The teacher was late.
06:35It's noon time.
06:37High school kami ah.
06:394th year high school.
06:403rd or 4th year high school.
06:42All of a sudden, I find myself pounding on the,
06:46punta sa podium.
06:47Kasi we were milling around eh.
06:49So, they were there.
06:53Sabi ko,
06:55Pretending I was playing the piano on the podium.
06:58You got a lot of fun, oh baby.
07:01Yeah, baby.
07:03Woo!
07:04Baby.
07:06Gonna have some fun tonight.
07:09One ng mga klasiko.
07:10Oo, oo, okay pa.
07:1212 years old Yun.
07:14Because little Richard really hit me.
07:16Yun ang talagang malaking influence sa akin.
07:19He started me in rock and roll.
07:21Real rock and roll.
07:25I was, I finished college when I was 19.
07:29Yeah, I had a degree.
07:31Economics, yeah.
07:33B.S. economics.
07:34And then, I joined.
07:36I was also training in security bank.
07:38We owned security bank there.
07:40And also as into steel.
07:42The number one roof company.
07:46And then in legal steel,
07:48I became vice president for purchasing.
07:52About 20, 20 years old.
07:5420, 21.
07:56And I helped my father build the steel mill there in Iligan.
08:02We would purchase the, we purchased the, we built it.
08:06As the senior vice president for sales and operations.
08:11Under me were about 3,000 people.
08:14I was very young.
08:15I was 20, 22, 23, yeah.
08:18I left my music at that time.
08:20I could not, I could not do it.
08:22And my radio stations were run by, by my bandmates.
08:27Alan Oster, Double A.
08:29And that became the legendary Rajo Manila.
08:32And they were, we had this, the building in Santa Mesa
08:37where June Keith Lee called the people to EDSA.
08:41Mesa Santa Mesa, that's an iconic building now.
08:44That's a historical place.
08:46DCRJ was there in the, on top.
08:49There was a little, like a flying saucer.
08:51So, my DJs, while I was in the steel mill,
08:59while I was in the steel business,
09:01my bandmates ran the radio station and became DJs.
09:04And they made it famous.
09:07While I was gone and the radio stations were, or were sequestered,
09:16they, they, they made it Rajo Manila.
09:20And then they discovered Pepe's,
09:23Juan de la Cruz, Sampaguita.
09:26They gave way to, because my, my philosophy was always,
09:29I don't want to be played at other stations
09:31because it keeps repeating itself.
09:33And at that time, the payola business was still big.
09:37So I said, I'd like to set up a radio station
09:39that you don't have to pay for.
09:42Basta kung sino kukuha na o mahusay na music.
09:46Record them and give them the chance to be exposed.
09:50So that's how it became Rajo Manila, became very, very famous.
09:53We discovered marami, Maria Cafra and all these rock bands.
10:00We coined the word Pinoy rock.
10:03So, you see, we, we built the steel mill.
10:08In 1969, kumatakbo na yan, kumikita na ng pera.
10:14And in 1972, I was, I happened to be abroad.
10:20Marcello was declared.
10:22Kinuha sa amin. Kinuha sa amin.
10:25Marcello. So, ganun na niya.
10:28So, so from 1960, I guess 1965 to 70, mga seven years.
10:33We had restaurants in New York
10:36and joined venture with Mitsubishi.
10:39Pero mga maliit na negosyo.
10:41Maraming restaurants lang just to have some businesses.
10:44Yan ang puntahan ng mga, no, ng mga exiled.
10:56We had a lot of American executives then
10:59because it was a big organization.
11:02So, natrain ako in business talaga.
11:05And what I learned is walang libre.
11:13You only harvest what you plant.
11:16So, you have to go the extra mile.
11:18You have to be disciplined.
11:20You have to be a professional in anything you do.
11:24That's what I learned.
11:26So, ganun, it taught me work ethic.
11:29Because maraming nagtatunog, ano ba formula to be successful?
11:33E kung may formula, hindi lahat tayo successful.
11:35So, nabi ko, instinct at saka luck, I guess, timing.
11:38Because I followed what I wanted.
11:42And I saw a need.
11:44Kasi walang variety pinapatutog sa air.
11:48So, always find a need and see if you can fill it.
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