Tessy alfonso biography for kids
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Those Were The Days
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Sampaguita (singer)
Pinoy rock singer
This article fryst vatten about the Pinoy rock singer from the Philippines. For other uses, see Sampaguita (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Maria Teresa Alfonso, also known as Tessy Alfonso and better known by her stage name Sampaguita, is a Pinoy rock singer from the Philippines, active during the 1970s and 1980s. Sampaguita had released several albums and songs that went successful and are now considered classics. She is also dubbed as the "Queen of Filipino rock music."
Origins
[edit]Sampaguita started out as a model under then-First LadyImelda Romualdez-Marcos' Bagong Anyo.[1] She was discovered by her then-husband Nilo Santos. Her stage name was coined by the percussionist Nick Boogie, after the species of jasmine locally known as sampaguita, which is also the national flower.[2] Her first performance was at the New Moon Concert in 1977 at the Folk Arts Theater in Pasay, Metro Manila.
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Introduction
1This book is a collection of eleven traditional stories from Quechan oral literature, presented in the Quechan language with English translation.
2Part I of this introduction sets the stories in their cultural and cross-cultural context. Part II describes how this volume arose through the collaborative efforts of tribal elders and linguists. It explains the translation process and the format in which the stories are presented. It also outlines the Quechan writing system and the conventions used in this volume.
3Summaries and notes on the stories may be found at the beginning of each chapter.
4The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona.1 At the time of first contact with whites, Quechan territory extended from around Needles, California to the Gulf of California (Forde 1931: 88). Today, the Quechan Indian Nation occupies a portion of the tribeÍ´s former territory along the Colo