Juan de la Cruz Band
The Juan de la Cruz Band was a Filipino rock band formed in 1968.
In December 1970, the band was featured in the first open field rock
festival in the Philippines, the Antipolo Rock Festival. The band's
popularity gained momentum in September 1971 when it backed up the
production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Cultural Center of the Philippines
(CCP). Then in December of the same year, the band garnered its
crowning glory when again, for the first time in the Philippines, a rock
group on its own, backed by a full symphony orchestra (the National
Philharmonic) was presented in concert at the CCP.
The band originally had six members: Wally Gonzales (guitars and
vocals), Rene Segueco (organ and vocals), Clifford Ho (bass and vocal),
Romy Santos (wind instruments), Bobot Guerrero (drums), and Sandy
Tagarro (lead vocals). Sandy Tagarro left the band before the band's
first album "Up in Arms" was released. Wally Gonzales, in an interview
later credited Edmund "Bosyo" Fortuno of having coined the band's name
though Bosyo's collaboration with the band was not until 1981 with Juan
Dela Cruz Band's 6th Album in which he was the drummer along with Joey "Pepe" Smith.
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