The Mabuhay Singers is a group of singers from the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 that was formed in 1958 and some the members became soloist like Cely Bautista, Raye Lucero, Naning Alba(and the late Rene Evangelista) and many others.

They were formed by the Villar Recording Company as a merged group from two vocal trios namely the Tres Rosas, composed of Carmen Camacho

Carmen Camacho

Carmen Camacho is one of Philippine Kundiman Diva of the 60s along with Norma Ledesma, Norma Balagtas, Pilita Corrales among others.Born in 1939, she recorded her first record on early 60s.Some of her recordings are Kapuspalad ng Isilang & Nagkamali Ako...

, Nora Hermosa, and Raye Lucero; and the Lovers Trio, composed of Chi Lucerio, Floro San Juan, and Ador Torres. Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 singers like Ruben Tagalog

Ruben Tagalog

Ruben Tagalog was a Filipino actor and musician, famous for his works in the Kundiman style. He was also a part of the Mabuhay Singers.-Career:...

, Cely Bautista, Ric Manrique Jr., Rita Rivera, Don David, Flor Ocampo, Noel Samonte, Betty Rivera,Phil Llamas, Robert Malaga, and Everlita Rivera joined the group for a time. The Mabuhay Singers recorded more than 100 album

Album

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s, which some released in the international scene. Those album contains traditional and modern Filipino music

Music of the Philippines

Music of the Philippines are performance arts composed in various genre and styles. The music of the Philippines is a mixture of indigenous, other Asian, European, Latin American, and American influences.- Traditional music :...

 in major languages of the Philippines

Languages of the Philippines

In the Philippines, there are between 120 and 175 languages, depending on the method of classification. Four languages no longer have any known speakers. Almost all the Philippine languages belong to the Austronesian language family...

 and some songs in English

English language

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 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

. In 1973, the Philippine Records Association awarded a citation for the group for their best-selling albums.