Lola Amour is a Filipino

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from

Muntinlupa Muntinlupa, officially the City of Muntinlupa ( fil, Lungsod ng Muntinlupa), is a 1st class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Metro Manila, National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the ...

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that dabbles in the genres of

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, and pop. The band consists of Pio Dumayas on lead vocals and guitar, Martin Kim on background vocals and keyboards, Raymond King on background vocals and bass, Zoe Gonzales on lead guitar, Angelo Mesina on trumpets, Joxx Perez on saxophone, and Renzo Santos on drums.

History

''Formation (2013-2016)''

Lola Amour was formed in Muntinlupa from two rival bands, "Sinigang Na Baboy" and "Decaf", comprising students at

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School The De La Salle Santiago Zobel School, also referred to by its acronym DLSZ or De La Salle Zobel ( Filipino: Paaralang De La Salle Santiago Zobel), is a private Catholic basic education institution for boys and girls run by the Philippine Distric ...

. While the two bands always competed against each other in the annual school battle of the bands, they were friends as members of student music clubs such as the DLSZ Symphonic Orchestra and DLSZ Jammers. The two bands decided to merge and perform at their senior year

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. When the group moved on to college, they officially adopted the name "Lola Amour", after the grandmother of vocalist Pio Dumayas.

''Wanderland Music and Arts Festival (2016)''

Lola Amour performed at the fourth

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. The band won ''Wanderband 2017'', the annual battle of the local independent bands of the music festival.

''Don't Look Back EP (2017)''

Soon after performing at the

, Lola Amour released their first EP titled "Don't Look Back", which consisted of four songs: Fools, Maybe Maybe, No Tomorrow and Piece of Mind.

''Coke Studio Philippines (2019)''

Lola Amour was included in the third season of the

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, an annual music television program in the Philippines. Notable songs released in this collaboration were "Sundan Mo Ko" with rapper

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, cover versions of Pa-Umaga (original by Al James) and "Tuloy na Tuloy Pa Rin ang Pasko" featuring Al James (original by

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Band members

Current members

* Pio Dumayas - lead vocals, guitar (2013–present) * Raymond King - bass, backing vocals (2016–present) * Zoe Gonzales - lead guitar (2016–present) * Angelo Mesina - trumpets (2016–present) * David Yuhico - keyboards, backing vocals (2021-present)

Former members

* Mico Fernandez - guitars (2013–2016) * Nathan Domagas - keyboard (2018–2020) *Martin Kim - keyboards, backing vocals (2016–2021) * Joxx Perez - sax (2016–2022), bass (2013) * Renzo Santos - drums (2013–2022)

Other personnel

* Mika Ordoñez - general manager and booking agent

Discography

EPs * '' Don't Look Back'' (2017) Singles

References

External links

* Filipino rock music groups Filipino pop music groups Musical groups from Metro Manila Musical groups established in 2016 2016 establishments in the Philippines Warner Music Philippines artists {{Philippines-band-stub