Armi Millare

Armi Millare

Armi Olbes Millare (born January 2, 1984) is a Filipino singer best known as the lead vocalist/keyboardist of the award-winning Filipino rock band Up Dharma Down.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Life


Armi Millare was around five or six when a piano was first delivered to their house, she started tinkering with it. While other children were playing in the streets, the young Millare spent her afternoon playing the piano. At a young age she also explored other instruments like violin, guitar and then drums. She eventually learned to play other musical instruments like the traditional instrument of Filipinos " Kulintang" and the Japanese Koto, and has considered them a crucial part of her songwriting process.

Millare is from a middle class Filipino family and the household where she was born was not musical. Her parents wanted her to become a doctor because her mother was a nurse while her dad is into business. Music was only seen as a past time and because she loved music she went on to defy what her parents wanted. She was quoted saying, “I wasn’t going to come home pregnant. I just wanted to make music. I didn’t even drink or smoke".

When Up Dharma Down began to make waves in the local music scene, Millare made the decision to move out and pay for her own school tuition. Her parents have now come to terms with her choice to make music, according to Millare they have finally accepted her music after ten years.[7]

“Stagnation is not welcome in this group,” Millare said in a news release by GMA Network. The aim according to her is to make something that listeners could grow old with, a bit of nostalgia much in the same way that the album reflects the music the band grew up with.[8]

Discography

With Up Dharma Down
Solo
Cover songs

Art Exhibit

Armi Millare has also explored in the field of visual arts and was frequently seen with artist Kawayan De Guia in 2011 [9] in Baguio City. She has joined in a visual art exhibit entitled ' In Transit' at CCP. She participated in the group exhibit that ran in September 20, 2015 at the Small Gallery of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Her work was featured together with musician artists like The Edralins, Kabunyan de Guia, Jazel Kristin, Kanna[10] Magosaki and Geloy Concepcion among others.

References

  1. ↑ Profile: The emancipation of Armi Millare
  2. ↑ Welcome to the camp: songwriters descend on Dumaguete | omg! Philippines News Blog - Yahoo OMG! Philippines
  3. ↑ OPM artists honor typhoon victims as nat’l music camp commences | Entertainment, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com
  4. ↑ Ryan Cayabyab: Pinoy artists must compete head on with foreign music | Music, Special Reports, Home | philstar.com
  5. ↑ The Scenester: Building Capacities with Armi Millare of Up Dharma Down
  6. ↑ Up Dharma Down tests its ‘Capacities’ | Inquirer Entertainment
  7. ↑ "The Emancipation of Armi Millare". Marga Deona. Rappler. December 3, 2013. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Beyond the Brim: Fans weigh in on Up Dharma Down's 'Capacities". GMA News Online. GMA Network. December 6, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ "A Zombash to remember". The Philippine Daily Inquirer. October 17, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Visual Arts". The Philippine Daily Inquirer. August 10, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
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