{"id":198057,"date":"2019-01-16T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=198057"},"modified":"2019-01-16T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T04:00:08","slug":"razorbacks-drummer-brian-velasco-films-34-floor-plunge-to-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/16\/razorbacks-drummer-brian-velasco-films-34-floor-plunge-to-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Razorback\u2019s drummer Brian Velasco films 34-floor plunge to suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_198059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198059\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50480647_10157078153723417_7253281524705918976_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-198059 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50480647_10157078153723417_7253281524705918976_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50480647_10157078153723417_7253281524705918976_n.jpg 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50480647_10157078153723417_7253281524705918976_n-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Today we lost our brother&#8230;.and our hearts are broken&#8230;..we love you and we will always miss you Bri. #rzrbk&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/razorbackmusic\/?tn-str=k*F\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/razorbackmusic\">Razorback<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Philippine music industry mourns the death of rock band Razorback\u2019s drummer, 41-year-old Brian Velasco, who reportedly jumped 34 floors down his apartment in City Land Tower 1 in Malate, Manila last Wednesday, January 16, while recording the suicide on Facebook live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Razorback\u2019s Facebook page first confirmed the news, telling fans, \u201cToday, we lost our brother and our hearts are broken. We love you and we will always miss you, Bri.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A video on Brian\u2019s Facebook page, now taken down, shows the drummer filming himself jumping off the building at around 9:40 am, mumbling in Filipino, \u201cPlease take care of Pochito. Here we go. Here I go.\u201d He was then found wearing a white polo shirt and jeans with injuries on his body and legs. According to Police, Brian\u2019s body was then turned over to Paz Funeral Homes in Para\u00f1aque City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian\u2019s family has since requested for the musician\u2019s body to be turned over to them and for no further police investigation to be conducted, Brian\u2019s brother Gabriel Angelo telling investigators that the drummer has long suffered from depression. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many from the Philippine music industry mourn the loss of Brian Velasco, his name trending on social media soon after his death. Fellow musician Francis Reyes tweets, \u201cHey Brian, I hope you have your peace now. Will remember all the fun and funny times, and your forceful drumming,\u201d while another user shared, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We grew up listening to legends like Brian Velasco. May he finally rest in peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Velasco established his name with the local rock band Razorback in 1996 after replacing original drummer Miguel Ortigas. He has aided the group in becoming a household name in the industry, being a part of their second album \u201cBeggar\u2019s Moon.\u201d A week before his death, Razorback was part of the benefit concert of Original Pilipino Music (OPM) legend, Wally Gonzalez.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine music industry mourns the death of rock band Razorback\u2019s drummer, 41-year-old Brian Velasco, who reportedly jumped 34 floors &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":198059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}