When you can't afford vocal lessons, singers resort to mimicry to form a benchmark. Then you build on that.

Why Filipinos are good in mimicking? Because most Filipinos don't have a proper lesson when it comes to singing. We learn how to sing by listening to songs and singing along with the tune. Thus, we ended up copying the original singers even their tones and pronunciation. Filipinos are resilient people and our ability to adapt really fast is quite remarkable.

The thing I learnt growing up as a filo. When listening to a song we like we first copy how the original singer sings their songs and copy their high and low pitch. To me, it's like having OCD on singing... We must get every part of the song perfectly. And after mastering it, we add our personality onto it to make it sound a bit more unique but not too much away from the original. Then another song we like, we rinse and repeat the same thing. Also, we deeply hate auto tunes 😅 (but maybe add some echoe in karaoke 😁)

The thing about Filipinos is that it is in our culture that almost all Filipino kids immediately get exposed to music. Kid's below the age of 6 is the developing state of a brain when what they learn or listen to gets inpirnted in their mind for a lifetime, this theory is usually associated with Perfect Pitch. That being said, music already gets imprinted in young Filipino's mind once they get so much exposure to it. With a little vocal practice, they can eventually sing.

I think it's because a lot of Filipinos who are good at singing aren't actually privileged enough to take formal vocal lessons that would have taught them to find their own style and use techniques so the good singers initially just pick up on songs by listening and sing it the way the singer originally sang it. That, itself, is still a talent though because it's hard to sing at the original key of some songs esp if you're actually not trained. The talent then is still innate.

Singing lupang hinirang evrymorning monday to friday 😂😂 I miss my elementary days..

That's how we become Greta singers. We mimick first to learn the originals artist's style. Then as we grow, we find our own voice. But at least we don't rely o. AUTOTUNE not like those western singers lol

I remember how my sister mimic a song from an opera, it's from the phantom of the opera. She really has a similar voice or wrange with the actress, she also mimics the pronunciation and diction😭😭😭 very clarooo

It’s actually true. Although I take that as a compliment, sometimes I also get tired of it. That’s why I appreciate those Filipino singers who has a really good originality. Aiza, KZ, Yeng, etc. Like you can tell that they were the one who is covering the song because they apply their own style on it.

That just sounds like a great alternative way to practice singing

Everyone mimics at some point,it's not just a Filo thing but if we mimic,we choose the hardest ones to showcase our vocal range.Do they even know we also produce our original songs?i say your teacher is lowkey looking down on us.

Filipino mimics and sounds better than original😌😂

Weird the teacher would say that as if that were some revelation. People learn everything via mimicking. We learn through copying them once we get good with it we add our own interpretation of what we copied. We copy sounds and movements of writing utensils to learn words. We copy techniques to sing and play instruments. We copy movements to walk, run, and swim.

I basically learnt singing japanese and korean without reading the romanized lyrics. I mostly imitate. Lmao

This is NOT a bad thing As matter of fact, this is a huge compliment in your singing ability. Singing by itself is already hard enough.... Now singing while imitating someone's tone, range and phonetics, that is MUCH harder. And that is what makes Filipinos great singers -- vocal versatility and adaptability

Ok I’m Filipino and I absolutely love singing like every other Filipino probably. And yes I have noticed I mimic the singer and I think I finally developed a singing style for me and know my range so then I tune it to myself and it’s really fun :)

It simply shows filipinos can do what foreign artists can, and sometimes even better

It’s true. Because of western influence in our country. If anything we’ve learn to speak better English because of it. Filipinos are adaptive people.

look the truth of the matter is filipinos love singing ! most of us can sing reasonably well. yes some can imitate great singers but that's not the point - singing for us is a way of life- with all our struggles in life - we find comfort in singing not so much of being great or popular ( that just a bonus) what is more impt and the great reason behind Filipino why most filipino are singing is because we know how to sing with different emotions - we sing when we are happy we sing when we are sad, we sing to give glory to our Lord and lastly we sing with HOPE that we can endure everything coz we are Filipinos who can make still be ok as long as we can sing and we believe in God. because God is love and hope. thats the deeper meaning of our singing. we do it coz we enjoy it and we thank God coz we are alive to sing. And as long as you are alive then there is hope of better tomorrow! popularity or trying to be the best are not the main point of why we sing!

We're told that Filipinos are also good with copying accents (this was during a communications training for a bpo) something to do with our facial built.

As a Filipino, I grew up only listening to the radio. Also, at every family reunion, there should be a karaoke and I just imitate my relatives how they sing. I don't know anything about vocal lessons since my parents don't enroll us in summer classes. Listening to the radio and imitating the singers is how I learned how to sing. It was only after years of exposing myself to music was I found my own style in singing. Having formal vocal lessons here in the Philippines is a privilege.

Coz we close to perfect the song from the original singer. We listen, listen, listen and give the best performance and emotions like no other. Our passion for music is immense.

That is always the goal,singing exactly the original singer/song and then master it and then experiment around the song,then sing it better,its always the aspect of continues challenge..

I often heard that growing up even Filipinos in local TS station , that we are great imitators. Nothing wrong with that

Well, there's a saying that goes: "the best way to admire is to imitate" that's what makes Filipinos great in singing. We love mimicking at first then later on find our own like most people say( I'm lucky I got it from both parents who loved music❤ may they rest peacefully in heaven🙏🏼missing you Papa❤Mama)

According to a Research Filipinos are good at imitation because the Tongue is Flexible unlike other

It is God given talent to the Filipinos......they are trained since they were 5 years old and up.....they just listen and from the bottom of their hearts...they sing!...with a golden voice....Praise God!...

When i was young, I can mimic the voice of every member of every boyband..every lead singer of every band.every male singer that came out. We dont have voice lessons, so we emulate styles that we hear.

I love Filipino culture!

A long time ago The famous Johnny Mathis visited Manila and heard a few Filipino singers,his comments was yes you’re a good singers but can you create an original songs! That was a profound statement by him.

Great info, and good comments. Personally speaking, I have performed with Filipinos (as part of my backup bands) in 50+ cities across the Philippines (plus 300+ cities in other countries using local Filipino singers), and I’ve never encountered one who didn’t have a very good voice. It’s amazing. Surely gifted by God! Plus it helps that every child in school years sings Lupang Hinirang (the Philippine national anthem) which has a crazy range of 1.5 octaves with key changes, that helps them develop a good ear early in life. Filipinos of every age love singing Karaoke, it’s a staple in their lives and a huge part of their culture, and typically the Karaoke machines grade them after each performance, helping them to continually get better and better.

ofcourse we only rely on hearing and mimicking what we are hearing on the radio. videoke and karaoke is the key to polish our voices

I am really grateful to my mom since we are baby together with siblings my mom keeps singing to us until we fall asleep so now 3 of my siblings are singers ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

As a fellow Filipino, definitely resonated with this. When I was younger it was a compliment to be able to sing and sound the same as the original singer but even now, I still don't know what my real singing voice is. Whenever I try NOT to sound like the original artist, I end up struggling so I eventually switch back to mimicking coz that's the easiest way to go.

🎉Yess, that is what makes it so good ❤

It's called *_low-key _**_#backhanded_**_ _**_#compliment_* from that teacher . . . for whatever it's worth. It's true. That's it. No arguments.

when I was young I love zac efron in his highschool musical era 😂 so me and my friends always roleplay highschool musical but no one wants to be troy bolton so I kept mimicing his voice even tho I am a girl 😅 now I can only sing in low register voice 😂😂😂 like dua lipa's voice

It also applies to learning language mostly we filipinos are good in learning other language because aside from learning the language itself, we also mimick the way the native speaker talk.

That’s true.

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Its ok to be a humble person!

The other day I've been watching the bird that singing in the tree almost 1/2 an hour and does different sounds of songs --- I was so mesmerized. THAT'S THE FILIPINO FOR YOU LIKE THE BIRD NIGHTINGALE

We open and listen to music almost 24hrs. from morning until the nxt day even while on bed or doing house chores. we always listen and sing with or without karaoke machine

Facts!

She is so beautiful 😍

Because all you have to do is listen. You start from there.

We do have a good hearing… and this is true.

im a Filipino and this is true

We're good at mimicking bcos we listen a lot to music, that's why we learn vocal techniques that we're not even know of growing up.

" we lowkey kinda are!" lol love the way she said it..

Yes, we sure are!

i wish we can apply this logic to our transportation system. please mimic other nations so I dont have to sit in a car for an hour to travel 3 km.

That's very true.

This is true! Di lahat pero karamihan mimic talaga including myself din kasi yung technique magaling ang Pinoy or I guess Asians in general. Opinyon ko lang po 🙏🙏🙏 Di po ako singer, pero gusto ko rin kumanta pag badtrip lang kumbaga stress-relief Thank you po for sharing!

The Truth is because when we were at Elementary School we sang Lupang Hinirang every morning before we study. Just imagine how hard for us singing Lupang Hinirang. 😂😂😂 I mean it's a very high note

Mimicry, if you know the Philippines' history and culture, is something that Filipinos are sharp at.

that's why in our competition the standard is to put your personality in the song. because most can copy the original version it became normal😂

Bs to the max!! Real talk&Nuff Said!!

Yes it’s true ever since panahon ng spanish mini mimic lang natin yung ginagawa nila hanggang ngayun kung ano nakikita natin sa TV

Because Filipino sings extremely well 😂

Truth about Filipino the way they pronounce the word is so perfect.

My mum took me to some singing lessons in middle school when she noticed i showed some interest in musical theater. On the first day, our voice teacher made us pick a song to sing to gauge our style and test our range and I think I did well because my teacher said my performance was beautiful. But during the actual exercises, I sucked. I can't identify the notes or match them and when I was made to sing along to a melody I've never heard of, I was so bad my teacher was getting frustrated. Also, the teacher noticed my singing style and voice quality change depending on the song I picked. he tried to help me find my raw "unadulterated" singing voice but when we found it, it was not as good as my mimicking. In any case, the interest in musical theater was just a phase and I discontinued the lessons and gave the teacher some peace. I wasn't heartbroken about having boring raw vocals. besides, my mimic singing is always a hit at karaoke.

Great Artists learn & perfect singing excellently with their own unique style by copying different artists/singers before they can formulate their own thing. 😂

It’s been like that since time immemorial. Though our ancestors already have musical instruments and traditional chanting, or folk music being shared to the younger generation, formal music training only started when the Spaniards brought Western church music and solfegge to the islands, and mostly learned by creoles and peninsulares (Spaniards born in the islands and Spaniards who came from Iberian peninsula), mestizos, principales (rich native families who are Spanish subjects), and few natives.

The term was used back in the 70s. There is that mentality that anything foreign is the best. Forward to 2024 nope, Filipinos are great natural singers, very versatile and mimicry is one of the assets.

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Trueeeeee

Another reason why i like bamboo mañalac ... He's different!

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Mimicking journey is not easy kudos to Filipinos

We sing with songs so yeah we imitate them because we love how they sing and slowly become better

That’s true. Many are not originals they can belt but not really create their own signature

Yes...exactly what i been saying for a long time. Filipinos does not just good mimicking in singing, but also with accents

Country singer Luke Combs sang Tracy Chapman's '88 Fast Car. It went Platinum in July. Sang it the way it was except his voice.

Yup 100%

That was a backhanded compliment.

I thought I was the only one thought about this, cause I realized it as well when I sing I always hear the original singer voice and I started mimicking it 😅

Once you have a good heart it means mimiking and imatating

Life is imitating art

Actually now that I think about it Gigi De Lana did sound EXACTLY like Hayley Williams in her Paramore cover of "Decode" to the point it was low-key scary.

Yup true

Ms.Teacher was on yall azz 😂 Really did the science on the math.

Well nothing wrong if you can copy the original, some foreign singers create their own rendition of songs oftentimes because they cannot attain the note/pronounciation of the orginal song, many filipino beats the original singer especially when it comes to live singing

yeah even known singers in Philippines can imitate the singers within and outside the Philippines, some of them are singing comedians do that as well

AND THATS HOW YOU DO IT. YOU MIMICK THE ORIGINAL. THE TONE. THE VOICE. THEN AS YOU GROW OLDER, THATS WHEN YOU FIND YOUR OWN VOICE.

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The land of singers… Pilipinas!

Filipinos have a good ear.... a lot of us didn't go to music school our teacher is the karaoke, that's why we tend to mimic what we heard but if you actually learn in the process or be prof. Singer in long run singer will have their own style... that why you have that teacher in the 1st place isn't? 😅 so you can find your own style

It has something to do with the complexity of the native twang of the Filipino dialects... Even Cebuano singers are different than Southern tagalog singers. It's not just because of the mimicry.

Well that hiw versatile we are, i guess our tongue are flexible to even mimick different accent

True we prefer dominating than leading.

Filipinos are very adaptable, not just in singing.

I learned in high school that we are cslled anf tittled us Filipinos are the"Great Imitators"🎉😊😊😊😊

It lowkey spot on... When I sing, I always have this instinct to recreate the voice of whoever the singer is... Even if the song if pitched up, I'll try to do it

yes that's true.

it got me thinking deep 😂 but it's true. i try to mimic the style and voice of the og singer when i sing their song lmao

Yes we are good in mimicking from voice, accent, style that’s why whatever language we sing we can copy it like we are actually speaking their language. We are good in mimicking in the good way.

My first thought was the fact that we all have a karaoke machine😭

There is a saying that practice makes perfect

Mimicry is talent.