Aired (September 25, 2024): Mula sa pagiging direktor, visual artist, skulptor, at marami pang iba, bakit naisipan muli ni Raymond Lauchengco na bumalik sa pagkanta? Alamin ang kanyang sagot sa video!
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00:00And talking about the work, wow, great times when you were just starting out.
00:10You entered the industry, you had a film with Sharon, you were the leading man of Maricel Soriano,
00:16you had a hit, your songs were being composed by the best composers here in the Philippines.
00:22How can you be luckier?
00:25Right?
00:26Yes, that's true.
00:27Who are the contemporaries that we're talking about?
00:31In acting or in singing?
00:32I mean, you know, I know in the theater, Sound of Music.
00:35Sound of Music, yeah, Lea Salonga, my sister Menchu, Senator Ontiveros.
00:39And even your sister Menchu, and then Monique Wilson was there.
00:44Anyway, so aside from the theater, when you say musical contemporaries, who are these?
00:51Martin.
00:52Martin started a few months ahead of me, and then I came into the picture.
00:55And then if I'm not mistaken, Gary a few months later.
00:58But aside from them, there were others, right?
01:01And I'm talking about Gino.
01:04Yes, Gino, Randy, Kino.
01:07Those were happy times.
01:10But since you mentioned Gary and Martin, when you were starting in the career of Raymond
01:15Blauchenko, the singer, did you watch them?
01:18Yes.
01:19They were some of the biggest names.
01:20And some people would even say that, you know, Raymond is there, you know?
01:25You know, those two guys are my idols.
01:27Martin is the concert king, and Gary is, well, he's like the ultimate performer.
01:31I really look up to these guys very, very much.
01:34But, you know, we're all different from each other.
01:37One of the things that I admire most about Martin and Gary is that they saw the goal,
01:41they saw the destination, and they went straight for it.
01:44For me, I had this creative restlessness in me that I saw the destination, but the journey
01:50was just as important.
01:51So, if I was going down the highway, I'd see something interesting on the right, professional
01:56photography, I would stop.
01:58That's what you did.
01:59I saw directing.
02:00You went there.
02:01I stopped for years, because it takes time to get good at these things.
02:04And then I really forced a stop in the pandemic because everything stopped for all of us.
02:08So, I went into visual art.
02:10So, for me, the journey has been just as exciting as the destination.
02:14Wonderful.
02:15You know, and of course, in the industry, when you watch the journey, the trajectory
02:20of your journey, Raymond was there, and then suddenly, he's not so active.
02:27Now, that explains it.
02:28Because you went to directing, you went to visual art.
02:32I directed over 500 events.
02:33I remember that.
02:34I had a studio.
02:35Correct.
02:36I became a sculptor.
02:37Are you happy?
02:38Oh, yes.
02:39It's beautiful, right?
02:40Yes, yes, yes, yes.
02:41I wish I had more time for all of my dreams.
02:44But, you know, life is short, so you got to choose the dreams.
02:47What are the dreams that are not fulfilled?
02:49Well, now, I'm pretty much satisfied.
02:51You are?
02:52I can say I've achieved or I've dabbled into the major dreams.
02:58I can't achieve them all because there's little time.
03:00So, now, I want to concentrate on singing.
03:03I think it's time to go back.
03:05Time to say thank you to the audiences who have, you know, supported me for the last 40 years.
03:10This is the time to say thank you?
03:11This is the time to say thank you.
03:12Okay.
03:13But, since you're going back to singing, are you going to go back to what?
03:16Maybe you're going to go into producing.
03:18You're going to go into directing.
03:19No.
03:20I will leave that headache for others.
03:21My wife.
03:22My wife can produce.
03:23Me, I will sing.
03:24You just want to sing.
03:25I just want to sing.
03:26And, Just Got Lucky is also considered to be the song of your life.
03:31It is.
03:32Why?
03:33Because I've been blessed.
03:34Correct.
03:35Using the word blessed.
03:36I've been blessed.
03:37But, in the theme song of the movie Baguettes, where you were with William Martinez, Aga,
03:42JC,
03:43JC Bonin,
03:44William,
03:45Herbert Bautista,
03:47Herbert Bautista,
03:48and the girls, of course, Sina Yula, Sina John, Sina Cheska.
03:50Right.
03:51How did the life of Baguettes change?
03:53Oh, it changed terribly, because after that movie, I was like, oh, my God.
03:58Anything else that I do will forever be second to being a Baguette, you know?
04:03I go out sometimes.
04:04Even now, right?
04:05Oh, yeah.
04:06Even now.
04:07A few months ago, I was in Australia.
04:08I saw someone.
04:09They go, hey, Raymond Lauchenko, Baguettes, Baguettes.
04:11And, they do this, you know?
04:13And, so, I do this also, you know, just to be polite.
04:16You're at the mall.
04:17What are you doing?
04:18I'm on the escalator.
04:19How are you, Raymond?
04:20How are you doing?
04:21Yeah.
04:22Okay.
04:23So, for a while, I didn't know how to react to it, because I was like, you know, I've
04:29done other things.
04:30But, now, you know, boy, it's really about gratitude.
04:33I just embrace it.
05:01Bye.
05:02Bye.