Visayan Pop Songwriting Campaign
also Visayan Pop Music Festival
Visayan Pop Songwriting Campaign, also known as Vispop or Visayan Pop Music Festival, is a Cebuano national songwriting campaign and competition for pop music compositions launched in Cebu City, Philippines on 2012. The competition is under the auspice of Artists and Musicians Marketing Cooperative (Artist Ko). From 2013 to 2017, it was staged in cooperation with the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (FILSCAP). The 2019 edition was organized with the partnership of Sacred Heart School for Boys - Batch 1985 Foundation, but the project was later shelved.
The campaign's winning entries became hits in various regional FM radio stations, even those that were in non-Cebuano speaking localities. The word "Vispop" also developed into an umbrella term to refer and describe songs produced from the contest and contemporary Cebuano music.
History
In 2009, Jude Gitamondoc and Philip Landicho, an enthusiast in Cebuano music, proposed the idea of forming a Cebuano songwriting campaign and contest to help artists in songwriting and music production. The goal was to produce songs that could be aired as part of radio playlist. Gitamondoc and Landicho then joined Artists and Musicians Marketing Cooperative (ArtistKo), a local artist cooperative, where they presented the idea. The first Vispop was scheduled for 2010, but it did not push through due to inadequate funding.
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