Bukas Palad Music Ministry

BUKAS PALAD is a community of young people who compose, record, and perform original Filipino religious music. Since 1986, Bukas Palad has recorded 15 albums under the Jesuit Music Ministry of the Ateneo de Manila University and has performed in over a hundred solo concerts across the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States.
Very few of Bukas Palad's members received formal musical training, but in its 24 years, Bukas Palad has grown to become an important force in Filipino music. Many of the most popular and well-loved praise songs in the Philippines were first sung and recorded by Bukas Palad. "Hindi Kita Malilimutan", "Tanging Yaman", "Sa 'Yo Lamang", "Anima Christi", and "I Will Sing Forever" are but a few of the songs Bukas Palad has sung and spread over its 24 years.

Bukas Palad Music Ministry

Bukas Palad has produced well over a hundred original liturgical and inspirational songs composed by Fr. Manoling Francisco, S.J., Norman A. Agatep, Jandi I. Arboleda, and other Bukas Palad members. Bukas Palad continues to create new religious songs because the heart of Bukas Palad's ministry is to give a voice to people's most fervent prayers. Bukas Palad hopes to put music to the desires and hopes that dwell in human hearts.
Bukas Palad ministers with music by singing in liturgy. Bukas Palad believes that voices raised in prayerful song add grace and fervor to life's pivotal moments. Masses, christenings, weddings, ordinations, and funerals are some occasions where Bukas Palad may be heard. Bukas Palad's ministry is a popular ministry as well. Bukas Palad is a highly acclaimed performing group in the Philippines. Bukas Palad and Bukas Palad's songs have been featured on countless occasions in concerts, on the radio, and on television. Bukas Palad has performed live in theaters, concert halls, convention centers, churches, and even shopping malls.
Popular Filipino artists like Lea Salonga, Regine Velasquez, Gary V, Basil Valdez, Jamie Rivera, Joey Albert, Cooky Chua, and Noel Cabangon have recorded and popularized Bukas Palad songs. "Tanging Yaman", "Hindi Kita Malilimutan", "Sa 'Yo Lamang", and other Bukas Palad songs have even become theme songs and titles of movies and television shows. Finally, Bukas Palad hopes that other people begin to write and sing their own songs of praise and prayer and find their own voices. To this end, Bukas Palad conducts liturgical music workshops for parish communities and choral groups. Bukas Palad also conducts outreach activities for the marginalized, the elderly, the orphaned, the sick, and the imprisoned.

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