page_title: Emil Sanglay
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Emil Sanglay / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: at DUTDUTAN XII
context_page_description: Emil Sanglay was a Filipino singer-songwriter. Emil Sanglay was also a neo-ethnic musical artist in the Philippines.
context_section_description: In the early 1970s, Sanglay was the bass and lead guitarist of Acid Tree Rock Band l & ll and Silhouette Band, and served as a choir director of FYM Choral Group at the Sta. Mesa Church in Manila, chord editor of Jingle Chordbook Magazine, researcher, author, and testing officer of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority for Overseas Performing Artists, and Philchime (Philippine Chamber of Industry in Music and Entertainment). Sanglay's professional music career started when Vicor Records released his song "Pen-Pen de Sarapen" in 1978. He was a recording artist for Ivory Records, CCP artist (Outreach and Exchange Program) and one of the main cast of Lapu-lapu, a multi-lingual neo-ethno classical-rock opera. Sanglay died of cardiac arrest in Baguio on December 17, 2015.
  Emil Sanglay received multiple awards for his compositions and singing. Together with Sanglay's group Penpen, they had been credited for many innovations and are considered experimentalists; Penpen and Sanglay are well known for their musical style that integrates the sounds of Filipino indigenous instruments with modern pop music.
  Most of the Filipino indigenous instruments Sanglay was known for using in his live performances were: "Sagaypo", "Tonggatong", "Gangsa", "Gabbang", "Kubing", "Balimbing", "Maraak", "Tambur", "Patting" or the bamboo guitar of the Cordillerans and the carabao horn "tambuli", stones, frog sounds, rain stick and birds caller. Sanglay and his band Bagong Penpen also used modern, Asian and Vedic instruments in his music, such as the electric guitar, bass guitar, flute, congga, djembe, sitar, tabla, mrdanga, harp, violin, marimba, Chinese gong, Udu drums, Doumbek, keyboard synthesizer and drums.
caption: Sanglay with "Pen-Pen Neo-Ethnic Rock Band" at Dutdutan XII
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