Jam Vhille Fernando Sebastian (20 March 1986 – 4 March 2015), better known as Jam Sebastian, was a Filipino actor and an internet personality. He is known for being in a

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with Michelle Liggayu, who was his fiancee in real life with the two collectively known as JaMich. He received significant reception in the Philippines as a

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Biography

Jam Sebastian was born at 7:37 PM on Thursday, 20 March 1986 at the

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and was the second son of Vilmo Flores Sebastian (born 28 August 1961, Santa Cruz,

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) and Maria Carmen "Maricar" G. Fernando. His older brother Yexel is a toy collector who owns three toy museums in the Philippines.

JaMich

Before JaMich, Sebastian had described his relationship with Paolinne Michelle Liggayu as puppy love. Sebastian had also confirmed during an interview with ''StarStudio Magazine'' that they aka "JaMich" have been a couple since 2008. JaMich became one of YouTube's popular

s in 2011. ''By Chance'' was their first uploaded video which gained more than seven million views with 543,163 accumulated subscribers. The duo joined Twitter in June 2011 and has since acquired over a million followers. After six years, the official engagement of JaMich was announced. It was Liggayu who proposed to Sebastian at the

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on 11 May 2014.

Illness and death

In January 2014, Sebastian was diagnosed with stage 4

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissue (biology), tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from tran ...

. He died on 4 March 2015, sixteen days before his 29th birthday. Jam was buried at the

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Parañaque.

Filmography

Short-films

Music videos

References

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