Who is Maegan Aguilar?

Born in April 9, 1979 among five siblings Maegan is second to the eldest of the legendary
Freddie “ANAK” Aguilar, and the first to follow on the heels of her father’s musical legacy.
Ever since she was a little girl, her parents Freddie and Josephine had an inkling she was going
to be in show business one day. At the tender age of five, Maegan was enrolled in ballet.
By seven she took organ and piano lessons under the Yamaha School of Music in Cubao. A
year later Maegan went back to dancing but this time it was jazz dance classes at RAL’s Dance
Studio on Annapolis in Greenhills, under the veteran dancer, Geleen Eugenio. All this training
got her choreographing at school and neighborhood fiestas.
FATEFUL EVENTS
Then tragedy struck. As a frisky girl, Maegan was playing around with a Chinese Garter
when her foot slipped, dislocating her right elbow. The doctors said she required six months of
therapy, which she hated, and missed many a session. Realizing she had to do something,
found her therapeutic solution in the form of drumsticks.
With the radio as her guide and drumsticks in hand, Maegan followed to the beat of
the music for hours on end in her father’s music room. This relentless therapy got her fully
recovered in less than six months, and honed a newly discovered natural knack in drumming.
In fact, she got so good at it that a year later, this cute 13-year old bravely entered the music
scene as a drummer-percussionist in the rock band Crossroads, composed of seasoned
musicians in their mid-twenties. She was their star.
BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE
All these late nights of club gigs started to show in her slipping grades, so her parents
grounded her. Naturally, that move ended her career instantly. Devastated, Maegan wasn’t
about to leave behind that center-stage high. With music now in her blood, Maegan picked up
a guitar and turned to songwriting instead. Giving her 4 basic chords, Freddie left the rest up
to his daughter. She picked up a few more chords on her own and filled an entire notebook
with songs.
By age 16, Maegan cut her first album, entitled, “Maegan Aguilar, Sige Lang Sige”
under her father’s label, Aguilar Music productions (AMP), distributed nationwide in 1995 by
Alpha Records which garnered the Best Alternative in the prestigious Awit Awards of the
same year. MOVING ON
Two years later, Maegan signed up with Mina Aragon as her Manager. Before anything
would happen, Ms. Aragon passed away. Not wanting to leave such talent in a lurch, Aragon’s
husband, the movie mogul, Vic Del Rosario, picked up Maegan contract and released her
“Burst” album under Viva’s record label NEO Records.
AS A MOVIE STAR
A pretty and genuinely talented young girl with a famous
family name was the formula for the making of a star. Vic Del
Rosario saw this, and promptly signed up Maegan to a five-year
movie contract. Just turning 18, she still needed parents’ consent.
Her parents had Viva add a clause that guaranteed her clothes
would stay on. After the success of her first movie, “Laging Naroon
Ka”, the trend in local films turned to bold. And that marked the
beginning of the end of Maegan’s film career.
Vic Del Rosario honored the conditions of the contract but
was unwilling to go against the trend, and that meant her career as
an all-around Viva star went on the back burner. This time, Maegan
hardly flinched. She had no desire to shed her clothes for millions of
leery men. The only problem was that NEO records was also under
Del Rosario and that was frozen too.
GOING PLACES
All these setbacks did not keep this girl down. Maegan took her music far and wide.
Travelling to Europe, she developed a huge fan base in Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg. With
her repertoire of original and cover songs. Maegan has graced concert halls in Sweden,
Denmark, and Paris. Played at a Folk & Blues concert in Belgium. Twice invited to guest in the
Shirataka music festival in Yamagata, Japan. And as the
drummer-vocalist to an all-female group called the
FLOWERCHILD, with the Rozy Torres on lead guitar and Annie
Trillo on bass, when they performed exclusively at Edge Bar in
Hong Kong.
BACK IN THE STUDIO
Last solo album was released in 2007: self-titled
"Maegan", under Dyna Music Philippines.
PRESENT
Maegan currently performs as an Acoustic Soloist at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel
Lobby. You can catch her performances there every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday for the month of August. She is also in a blues project band called Glass Cherry
Breakers and they’ve been chosen to do the musical score/soundtrack for a Spanish movie
entry entitled “Curro Vargas” for the International Silent Film Festival. To be released in
public from August 28-31 , 5PM at the Shangri-la Edsa Mall Cinema .ALBUMS
August
1995
1st Solo Album "Sige Lang Sige" 1995
AMP-Aguilar Music Productions
Distributed By: Alpha Records
Composers: Maegan Aguilar, Freddie Aguilar
AWARDS :
“Sige Lang Sige”
Winner: Awit Awards - Best Alternative Song
“Anak”
Winner: Awit Awards – Best Folk Duet
January
1998
2nd Solo Album "BURST" 1997
NEO Label
Distributed by: Viva Records
Composers: Maegan Aguilar, Abraham Rey-Hipolito
AWARDS:
“Kiliti”
Winner: Katha Awards – Best Blues Contemporary Song
Winner: Katha Awards – Best Blues Contemporary Vocal
Performance
November
2007
3rd Solo Album "Maegan" 2007
Dyna Music Philippines
Composers: Maegan Aguilar, Allen Umali
AWARDS:
“Di Kita Maiwasan”
No 1 song (1 mo.) Energy FM in 2008
No. 3 song (3 mos.) Radyo Pinoy Japan 2011
“Kaibigan”
No. 2 song (3 mos.) Radyo Pinoy Japan 2011Compilations & Soundtracks
1995
1st Various Artists Compilation 1995
Featured song: "Anak"
Composer: Freddie Aguilar
1997
1st Soundtrack Compilation 1997
Featured song:
"Di mapaghihiwalay" (Burst Album)
Composer: Maegan Aguilar
2002
Recorded Hip-Hop project with J-SIN
Featured song:
“ In the Philippines part 1”
Composer: Jason Ivler
2003
2nd Soundtrack Compilation 2003
Featured song:
"Malikmata" (main theme song)
Composer: Dodge Ledesma and Road Runner
AWARDS
MMFF Winner: Best Musical Score
2005
Spoken Word Compilation 2005
Featured song:
"Road Trip"
Poem written by: Kooky TuasonPRESENT
Maegan currently performs as an Acoustic Soloist at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel
Lobby. You can catch her performances there every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday for the month of August. She is also in a blues project band called Glass Cherry
Breakers and they’ve been chosen to do the musical score/soundtrack for a Spanish movie
entry entitled “Curro Vargas” for the International Silent Film Festival. To be released in
public from August 28-31 , 5PM at the Shangri-la Edsa Mall Cinema .
2005
3rd Soundtrack Compilation
Featured song:
“Ako ay Okay Lang”
Lyrics: Maegan Aguilar/Music: Allen Umali
2009
Music Compilation 2009
Featured songs:
"Love you the way you are"
"Let it go"
Lyrics: Maegan Aguilar/Music: Allen Umali