User talk:Jephoy

recent purchase of a movie Lobby Card into the background of one of the male stars, Bimbo Danao, revealed the following article which I would like to add to the current information on this man:

After World War II, Filipino musical bands came back to Japan and performed in bars in American bases. Gradually, they spread to clubs in the entertainment districts of Tokyo. As in the early 1920s, many of them worked under American managers. A Filipino singer became very popular, a cut above all the others. He was Bimbo Danao, who came to Japan in 1952 and instituted package shows featuring himself as the singer, plus topless Japanese dancers, and a variety act. .Soon all the other clubs and cabarets in town were copying the format. (Asahi Evening News, November 30, 1976, 15). Bimbo Danao.s popularity reached its peak in the 1960s. A proof of his popularity was that the Asahi Shimbun, a reputable major newspaper, considered his death on July 22, 1967, newsworthy (Asahi Shimbun, July 25, 1967, 15). It was a piece of news mourning the death of a celebrity.

Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 2007 22 (1): 61-84 Why are Most Filipino Workers in Japan Entertainers?: Perspectives from History and Law LYDIA N. YU JOSE ABSTRACT......page 74

(Jephoy (talk) 19:27, 6 September 2009 (UTC))