100-in-10 Fundraiser - Artist Profiles
JOY PASCUA
PAZ HERRERO
PAZ HERRERO
Joy Pascua (AB Comm '98) and Jerome Chan are the lead singers of The New Agenda Band, a top 40s group that performs in and out of the New York Tri-State area. Both have been singing together since 2012 in numerous venues and events and have an online show called Sunday Duets where they perform favorite cover duets every week.
Follow them on IG @joy.a.pascua @kuyachanimal @thenewagendaband and Facebook at
PAZ HERRERO
PAZ HERRERO
PAZ HERRERO
Paz (AB Comm '92) has music in her blood. As the daughter of a veteran stage, screen and TV performer, Subas Herrero, she was raised in the entertainment world and has been surrounded by music and the performing arts her entire life. Her venture into singing in bands started when she moved to the U.S. in the 1990s. She credits her musical career to singer/songwriter Noel Gamboa, who gave her the chance to showcase her talents in several productions of “Manila Nights.” Paz has had the opportunity to sing backup for numerous top-named Filipino artists across the U.S. and Canada and has performed at several venues in the tri-state area, including the acclaimed Weil Auditorium at Carnegie Hall and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. She has performed with several bands over the years, and has very happily found her niche as a lead singer for Key of C.
PAUL TIROL
PAZ HERRERO
LIONEL ZIVAN
Paulo K Tiról graduated from ADMU in ‘99, then was a corporate professional and member of Hangad under the Jesuit Music Ministry for over 12 years. In 2012 he moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music, then to New York in 2013 where he obtained his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing at NYU Tisch on a full tuition scholarship. He went on to attend the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, and be an Artist in Residence at Access Theater and a Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow. Today his musical theatre credits include music and lyrics for ON THIS SIDE OF THE WORLD (NAMT Festival 2020, Prospect Theatre IGNITE Concert Series, workshop production at Access Theater, all dir. Noam Shapiro); book, music and lyrics for CALLED (DGF Fellows Showcase ‘20, dir. May Adrales); and orchestrations for Ma-Yi Theater Co.’s FELIX STARRO. He also continues to write liturgical music, with work published by Oregon Catholic Press. More at www.paulophonic.com.
LIONEL ZIVAN
IBK - ISKULBLUEKUL
LIONEL ZIVAN
Lionel Zivan (Valdellon) composes and performs happy dad pop and downtempo electronic music. He is also Batch 93 AB-Humanities in ADMU. During the day, he's a content marketer, dad to three, and husband to one.
Visit https://lionelzivan.com/ for more info.
IMO QUIBILAN
IBK - ISKULBLUEKUL
IBK - ISKULBLUEKUL
Imo was Editor in Chief of Heights (AB IS 93). He co-wrote the music and libretto of 2Bayani, Tanghalang Ateneo's rock musical in 1996 with filmmaker Khavn dela Cruz, who is now considered the father of Philippine digital cinema. Imo won the National Book Award for his short story collection "Pagluwas," published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2006. He lives in South Pasadena, CA working in the financial industry, and occasionally gives talks on Filipino fiction at UCLA
IBK - ISKULBLUEKUL
IBK - ISKULBLUEKUL
IBK - ISKULBLUEKUL
In 2004, a fortuitous event occurred in NYC: alumni of universities and colleges in Manila, now living in and around NYC, were challenged to form alumni-based bands and compete in a “battle-of-the-bands” benefit show to raise money for Filipino charities. From this inauspicious beginning IBK – iskulbluekul – was born. Originally a ten-member pop band, there have been multiple variants of IBK through the years —but one thing has always remained constant: its musicians have always been mostly, if not all, Ateneans. A lot of the original members have moved on to different bands but IBK has always been a home for Atenean musicians.
For this live stream event, it will feature Warren Daya (AGS 77, AHS 81) on guitar, Anton Marquinez (AGS 79, AHS 83) on saxophone and bass, and Mike Ruivivar (AGS 79, AHS 83, College 87) on drums.