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Ethnic Faces

Filipino rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ126164181 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ethnic Faces is a Filipino alternative rock band from the 1980s. The band members are Jack Sikat on vocals, Rhany Torres on bass, Boyet Miguel on guitar, and Jayvee Torres on drums. They have 17 songs, including "Love", "Balikbayan", "Back Home" and "Golden Boy", and two albums, New Wave: 1986-1987 Recordings and Dekada. Their record labels are PolyEast Records and Grey Market Records.

Ethnic Faces gained national attention after winning a punk band contest on a noontime TV show.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ethnic, Faces and Filipino is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ethnic Faces” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.