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Levi Celerio

Levi Celerio was a renowned Filipino composer born in 1910 in Manila. He showed early musical talent and received a scholarship to study at the prestigious Academy of Music Manila. Celerio had a prolific career as a composer, lyricist, and writer producing many famous Filipino folk songs. He was recognized for his unique musical style of creating music using only his mouth and a brown leaf. Celerio received numerous honors and awards throughout his career, including being named a National Artist of the Philippines and earning a Guinness World Record for his musical leaf invention.

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Levi Celerio

Levi Celerio was a renowned Filipino composer born in 1910 in Manila. He showed early musical talent and received a scholarship to study at the prestigious Academy of Music Manila. Celerio had a prolific career as a composer, lyricist, and writer producing many famous Filipino folk songs. He was recognized for his unique musical style of creating music using only his mouth and a brown leaf. Celerio received numerous honors and awards throughout his career, including being named a National Artist of the Philippines and earning a Guinness World Record for his musical leaf invention.

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  • Levi Celerio's Biography
  • Musical Style and Achievements
  • Lessons from Levi's Life

LEVI CELERIO

 Levi Celerio was born


on April 30, 1910, in
Tondo, Manila the
Philippines. His
parents hailed from
Baliuag in Bulacan.
As a boy, he injured
his arm while
climbing a tree, the
reason why he could not play for long. Levi attended
the University of the Philippines Conservatory of
Music for a violinist course. His talent impressed the
Conservatory’s Director, who recommended him for a
scholarship at the prestigious Academy of Music
Manila. Later, he enrolled at the Academy of Music,
becoming the youngest member of the Manila
Symphony Orchestra. Through this scholarship, he
began his climb to become a renowned Filipino
composer at home as well as abroad.

PAST AND PRESENT JOB’S

-Prolific lyricist

-Composer
-Writer

MUSICAL STYLE

Celerio was known for creating music with a mouth-brown leaf.


Celerio’s achievements include a citation the Guinness Book of
World Records for being the person to make music with a
mouth-brown leaf.

MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS

 Ang Pipit (music by Lucio D. San Pedro)


 Bagong Pagsilang (music by Felipe Padilla De Leon)
 Sa Ugoy Ng Duyan (music by Lucio D. San Pedro)
 Missa De Gallo (miusic by J. Balita)
 Itik-Itik (folk song)
 Tinikling (folk song)

LEVI CELERIO AWARDS

 1997’s National Artist for Music and Literature award


 The Guinness Book of Records Leaf Per Award
 In 1991, he earned an honorary doctorate in the
Humanities
 In the same year, he received the CCP Gawad Para Sa
Sing Award as well as the Gawad Urian Award in 1991
 The Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989

LESSON IN HIS LIFE

 Don’t give up and be creative seek for another unique


idea that people will remember you.

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