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"Dahil Sa Iyo"

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Title

"Dahil Sa Iyo"

Description

Sheet music for a song titled, "Dahil Sa Iyo." This sheet music is from Archie Lopez's collection of songs he often played at Filipino community organization events with his band, "Archie and the Islanders." "Dahil Sa Iyo" is a Tagalog phrase for "Because of You." It is a popular Filipino love song. The song is commonly associated with the manong generation among Filipino American communities on the West Coast.

Creator

Mike Velarde, Jr.

Date

1938

Contributor

Rosario Lopez
Tony Tapiz

Rights

Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-driven public history initiative to preserve and uplift stories of Filipino migration and labor in the city of Watsonville and greater Pajaro Valley. Images were donated and digitally reproduced from private collections of individuals and families. Copyright remains with original owners. All images included herein are intended for personal or educational use only. Any reproduction, redistribution, publication, or other use, by any means, without prior written permission is prohibited. Please note that the images on this website are not included at their full resolution. For permission to publish or reproduce and for higher resolution files, please contact the project director at wiith@ucsc.edu . If you are the rightful copyright holder of this item and its use online constitutes an infringement of your copyright, please contact the project director to discuss its removal from the archive.

Language

Tagalog and English

Type

Text

Identifier

LOP.2022.15

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Original Format

Sheet Music

Files

LOP.2022.15.jpg

Citation

Mike Velarde, Jr., “"Dahil Sa Iyo",” Watsonville is in the Heart: Community Digital Archive, accessed December 18, 2024, https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/items/show/841.

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