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By the early s, Pinoy Rock and its mellower sibling Pinoy folk-rock have reached a saturation point of sorts. The mass market has shifted back to trite pop songs and a segment of the younger crowd was channeling its restless energies through the nihilistic attitude of punk rock. Coritha, with her angelic voice, soulful eyes, and accessible acoustic songs, gave Pinoy folk-rock an extended lease.

The song was heard on jukeboxes and radio stations, and played in rallies. Musical tastes again shifted, and Coritha disappeared from the public eye. No one seemed to know what had happened to her. Her songs endured, but where was the singer?

Coritha, with her angelic voice, soulful eyes, and accessible acoustic songs, gave Pinoy folk-rock an extended lease.

If it were not for broadcaster Julius Babao, we would not have known about her dire medical situation and the hard times she had lived through. Working musicians can identify with hard times. They live from gig to gig, even after reaching retirement age for most professionals; the pay is measly and the hours punishing to old bodies.

But this tight community has been staging benefit concerts to raise funds for Coritha, as they have always done for fellow musicians. Like Coritha, most of the beneficiaries of this unprompted generosity are elders in the trade who started out as working musicians before being signed by record labels in the late 70s. Pinoy Rock was then at its peak and the record labels were scouting for the next big thing.

Some of these musicians have been honored as legacy artists, respected for works that transcend time and tempest. Coritha, Asin, Heber Bartolome and other folk-rock musicians cut from the same cloth wrote songs that held a mirror to society and self. But beyond reflecting reality, their songs provoked and disturbed. They were potent antidotes to the despair and apathy prevalent in the years before the Aquino assassination in