Michael Negapatan better known as Cursebox, is a young music producer, DJ from the Philippines. He found out his niche in music production when he was 15, He has worked with several artists and recently landed a big track with ABS-CBN actress Alex Gonzaga titled “Chambe” He has produced for several artists and groups such as Jake Zyrus, Loisa Andalio, SB New Gen, Andrea Brillantes, Vice Ganda, Angeline Quinto, Ella Cruz, Julian Trono, Bendeatha of Salbakuta, Ryan Bang and many more. and also commercial works for companies such as Abs Cbn, Philtranco, Insular Life, Security Bank, Inquirer and Resorts World. Also the Battle Of The Beats Philippines Champion of 2015 and currently with the production team Panty Droppaz League, and currently doing freelance work, arrangements and music production for Star Music. Cursebox has a very bright future ahead and is ready to take on anything with his passion and dedication.
Dan Wilkins Diaz (Born 1 May 1991), better known by his stage name Gat Putch – primarily produces Trap, Trap soul, RnB, and Hiphop Music. He is also the leader of the group named “Yellin Speech”
Gat Putch grew up and began his career in La Loma, Philippines. He never had any formal schooling for Music Production. He is really in-love with music since grade-school. Way back 2013, Putch works as a DJ on a resto-bar and that is where his music career had began. He started listening to old songs, rap, rnb, reggae, jazz, soul and love songs. Then months after, he got the guts to write his own songs and started creating music with his group members. The early years of Putch as a rap artist is not easy. There are times that people doesn’t believe with the talent he has, but it didn’t stop from there. He continued in writing and creating music and used those obstacles as an inspiration.
Year 2019, Putch and his group created a song entitled “Berdeng Pag-iisip” and everything went well. This song had given him a lot of opportunities on Hiphop industry. He is now being invited on collaborations with different artist and being named as “Chorus of the year”.
Currently, Putch is focused on writing more songs for his upcoming mix tape.
Edward Scotter is one of the member of the group called Mula Area 51 and Blazing Skull. He started his Rap career in 2010, and he was discovered by Ryan Ambrocio a.k.a "DICE" which is part of a group called High Clasz Entertainment. Ryan found Edward Scotter in a Rap Street Battle at San Andres Malate, Manila. Edward Scotter is also a part of High Clasz Entertainment but decided to leave the group in 2011. After he leaved High Clasz Entertainment he joined a group in his own street and it was created wayback in 2009. They started recognizing Edward Scotter one of the Hard working person and others called him The Traveler. In 2017 Edward decided to join the Blazing Skull that Jenar Descutido created in 2011 and until now he is representing the said group. Last November 29, 2019 Edward Scotter created Mula Area51. Edward Scotter also joined a league named Digma Tugma Rap Battle League by TAP production. Edward Scotter released a Music Video that trends this year and that is TDK. He was also a model of a certain commercial. A lot of gigs and opportunities like Radio guesting was offered to Edward Scotter and he accepted it all. Until now Edward Scotter remains a Hard working person for his dreams and for his group.
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"Pinatid ka man ng masasakit na salita, Bumangon ka parin. Dahil pwede mong ihalintulad ang sarili mo sa sugat na ginawa nila na darating sa puntong gagaling."
Influences:
J.cole - Caleborate - Chance The Rapper - BROCKHAMTON - Ant Melo - Mac Miller - Kota The Friend - A$AP Rocky - Xxxtentacion - Noname - Dax - Third Flo' - Ohkim - Mc Blain - Loonie - Ron Henley - Santo - Mike Swift - Uprising - Raff E - Row 4 - Laynee Tiu - Arvy T & Kda.
Steven is a promising RNB and acoustic singer known for his mellow-type voice. Beyond singing in a flexible genre, he's like a one-man band who plays the guitar, keyboard, drums and bass.
Calle Con, Kalye Tunes, Sunugan, Maskipaps 2018, Rakrakan 2018 were just some of the many distinguished events where Steven performed. Also, he appears on different well-known bars and clubs in the Philippines who support local rap artists such as Lokal Caven, Upperhouse BGC, and URBN QC.
He started his profession by uploading covers wherein one has reached more than 8M views which is overwhelming for a young starting artist. When he got noticed on starting his career in producing beats, he got affiliations with Because, KNTMNL, Matthaios, Droppout, Calvin De Leon, and Nick Hernandez who brought him in MIDA$ Records with Soultrap, Rnb, Pop and Rock genre.
Racy Oliva is a 23 year old RnB, Pop singer and songwriter.
She was officially a member of MIDA$ RECORDS last October 2019.
She has been performing in various gigs and events such as Urbn QC, Sitcom Laspinas and VCenter Mall Molino. Her way of showing off her talent is by doing covers of famous artists, local or international. Since Racy Oliva was 8 years old, she found out her love for music. She's been doing covers eversince. She also started vlogging wherein she gained more viewers with her fun contents.
Racy Oliva released her first collab with Mida$ girls entitled This is it. She is in for more collabs and singles as time goes by. She is also a model at fhm, playboy magazine and AO magazine that made her more famous on social media specifically on Instagram @racyoliva.
At a young age of 17, he started producing music under the name ANDA (due to his last name being Andales). Dubstep & Drum n’ Bass was one of his early roots. Fast forward to 2017, he changed his name to CHRIILZ and began producing Trap Music from then on.
Under his belt, he has produced some hit tracks including: “Birthday Mo” by Donnalyn Bartolome which garnered over 12M hits on YouTube; and “You & I” by Ijiboy, Honcho, Skusta Clee & Chriilz with over 1.6M views.
As a DJ, he was able to make a hit by remixing "Energy Gap", a popular song from Milo, which gained over 700K views. His remixed version of his "Baby Shark" was also featured in a video game called "Robeats" and has 4.2M views on YouTube.
Joselle Calugay, known professionally as "I'SLA", is an uprising pop and R&B singer-songwriter from Manila, Philippines. At the age of 18, she was signed with a well-known hip-hop record label “MIDA$ Records” in early 2019 and has released numerous tracks ever since.
Started from interschool singing contests, she became a contest hotshot from a very young age. She has also starred in several school musical theatre plays, having roles of Mulan, and Maria from "The Sound of Music." Performing a wide variety of genres from Trap, Pop, Acoustic, R&B to Rap, her singing style is greatly influenced by Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa.
She has partaken in numerous gigs alongside notable local artists such as Munimuni, I Belong To The Zoo, December Avenue and Al James. She has recently performed on events such as the UST's After Paskuhan 2018, Rekta sa Dulo, Jess & Pat's Anniversary Gig, Sunugan: Bad Blood, and Calle Con 2019.
I'SLA released her first single as a featuring artist together with singer-producer Himig Borhuh last December 2018, "Keep Me Close," hitting 8,500 streams only two months after its release. Ever since then, she has appeared on various collaborations together with Steven Peregrina in their song entitled “Touch My Body”; Kiyo in his song entitled “Pantalan, Pt. 1”; and Calvin De Leon in their song entitled “Halina” together with Himig Borhuh, and many more.
Biography: Melvin Francisco D. Santos, 25 years old, galing po ng muntinlupa, 2011 nagumpisang magrap, sa ilalim ng tunog ng muntinlupa, hanggang 2012 nagbuo ng grupo sila bosx1ne yun nga yung EX BATTALION, sumali ako, dati mahirap pa non nung wala pako sa exb, kailangan para maisali ka sa mga kanta dapat talaga kakaiba style mo o may dating ka kundi wala ka,kaya ayun nagpraktis maigi sa totoo lang kase dun sa muntinlupa talaga maraming magagaling lalo na yung tunog ng muntinlupa at muntinlupa's finest kaya machachallenge ka talaga magpakahusay kaya hanggang ngayon hindi ako natigil magexplore kasi mas malaki na yung nagchachallenge saking community. Masarap din naman sa pakiramdam marami kong natutunan tas nakikita mo na kada kanta may bago sayo hehe.
Influence ko dito sa pinas, si jekkpot jackmow brando thugprince floydiebanks, juanthugs at karamihan sa mob, at syempre yong mga kagrupo kong kasabayan ko noon. Lalong lalo na si kuya ron at loonie
Sa international naman krayzie bone, bizzy bone, j cole, travis scott, migos.
KIARA is a 21 year old singer and songwriter from Taytay, Rizal, who became a member of MIDA$ RECORDS on January 2019.
She has been joining amateur singing contests and has been invited to several occasions to sing since she was 8 years old. A daily winner of Tawag ng Tanghalan Season 3, Kiara has also performed in various events and gigs such as Rekta sa Kalye, Calle Con, Sunugan and Pepsi Challenge to name a few.
The songs she released under MIDA$ RECORDS were Misery, her first solo, Kailan Kaya Ako?, a collaboration with Matthaios, It's not me It's you and This is it together with MIDA$ GIRLS. Her song "Bakit Pa?" was released independently on February 2020.
Julia Gannaban also known as Aloura is a singer, songwriter and producer based in Manila, Philippines. She emerged in the music scene as a DJ named MRKIII by winning 1st runner up in DJ Mag Philippines' Spin U-Nite DJ competition. From 2016, she has shared her love, passion, and soul through her sets and music. She released a few songs like "Fell in Love" and "Home" which reached more than 100,000 streams and has performed alongside international acts like Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, Julian Jordan, Firebeatz and more.
In March 2019, she rebranded and changed her name to Aloura. Focusing more on singing, songwriting and producing which was her ultimate goal even before she became a DJ. She released her new sound "Break Me Down" as her first single.
In just a year, Aloura has released a couple of tracks and have reached more than 300,000 streams and was included in various editorial playlists worldwide.
This new brand shows her true self and sound through her melodic driven, synth-pop production and personal experience-inspired songwriting.
Nawaf G. Al Hassawi(aka Waff the Rapper/DJ Waffster)
A young and upcoming rapper who started as a hiphop DJ and Producer who wants to share his message to the industry. He is also known as the official DJ of Psychedelic Boys, Pricetagg, Kris Delano,� Because, JP Bacallan, Matthaios and the MIDA$ Records.
In the early 2018 Waff joined the MIDA$ Records to start his rap career and released 2 tracks(Wer U At, MydollaSign) along side his fellow MIDA$ members. He is also been seen preforming in our local events like Calle Con,UP Fair:Kalye Tunes,Hydro Manila, Fete De la Musique and a lot more.��Affiliation: MIDA$ Records, Rawstarr, Nick Hernandez
ako si Ian Binuluan aka Ian Angeles , nagstart ako sa recording nung 2016 featuring sa single ni G20 (Dongalo / Gotmic) Turn It Up sya yung nagbukas ng pintuan para sakin kaya nakapasok ako sa rap scene, after that nakilala ko sina Mzhayt sya yung tumulong sakin nagturo nagkaron din kami ng collaboration "O.N.S" , nagtuloy tuloy na nagkaron ako ng solo tracks under Universal Records " Ibaling ft. Rae Tristan Produced by Mark Beats " which is naperform namin ng live sa Wish 107.5 roadshow , up until 2019 and 2020 nagkaron ako ng chance maka collaborate sa tracks sina kuya Mike Kosa, Mhot, Sur Henyo , Astro and Bobby Skyz
Laeticia Jane E. Lacerna also known as "Laeticia" is a singer/songwriter and a self published writer who started by creating cover songs on twitter from Sta.Rosa City, Philippines.
She was recruited to be part of MIDA$ RECORDS on June 2019 after being asked to perform in College of Saint Benilde.
She's also an aspiring influencer who has reached hundreds of thousand of views on twitter by creating inspirational posts and videos.
she's released 3 new songs after being part of the MIDA$ RECORDS,
Himig Borhuh aka Himig Borja is a versatile artist and a conservatory of music student from Quezon City Philippines. He is also a part of MIDA$ Records roster of talents and a band that is called Purples n' Oranges.
He is also nominated for the best Dance track of the year 2018 at Awit Awards, Performed at several events and Festival such as Syzygy Music Festival, UST Paskuhan, Hydro Manila Music Festival, UP Fair: Kalyetunes 2020 and more as a Performer (Sing and Rap), DJ and as a Band Member.
Affiliation: MIDA$ Records, Purples n' Oranges, Metroboyz, Jigsvw, MadeInMNL, Nick Hernandez
Joshua Ylen Martinez
Aka Ino Makata member of WUT ( We don’t Usually Do This )
And founder of Musicamino,
Address: Brgy Tugbungan, Zamboanga City ( Mindanao )
2019 Rapture Champion
Mahal ko na ang rap mula nung grade 4 ako, lagi akong kuma-kabisado ng pyesa na naririnig ko, pero nagstary ako magsulat ng 16 years old,
Pinagaralan ko magproduce ng sariling beats at magrecord magisa nang walang tulong nang iba dahil na rin gusto kong i challenge ang sarili ko, na tumayo sa sariling paa , At naging pasimuno rin po ako nang ilang mga hip-hop events na ginagawa dito sa zamboanga
Blazing Skull was founded by Jenar Descutido "Sober D" (Producer/Artist/Sound Engineer) in 2011. Blazing Skull has 9 members in their group:
Jenar Descutido (Sober D. as a Producer/Jenar Descutido)
Darien James Venus (Yen Venus)
Gian Naagas (Akdfrmlte)
Edward Scotter (Edward Scotter)
John Christian Baile (King)
David Dimaano (Peso.sins)
Ron Medwin Rara (Third Iris)
Carlo Sigua (Ashkhas)
Rex San Gaspar Aglinao (REXXX)
Blazing Skull Latest achievement was collabing with one of the respected Emcee in The Philippines and that is "Apoc" with their latest Single: LB-235
Others Achievements:
Sober D is one of the sound engineers who mixed and mastered Manilafornia Vol. 3
Sober D. Produced Owfuck: Biyahe feat Jameson
Blazing Skull was also promoted by Local and Unrthdx with their tracks: PS2, Love, Snakes and ladders, I'll, and other tracks.
REXX also has Music Video with Frame up Manila
Ashkhas and Third Iris released their Music video directed by Popaul Noti
Edward Scotter Released his Music Video with his track: TDK
The last but not the least improvement is within theirselves by improving their skills with their Pen game and Creativity
