{"id":199575,"date":"2019-01-27T23:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=199575"},"modified":"2019-01-27T23:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T04:19:26","slug":"final-bow-pepe-smiths-last-rock-n-roll-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/27\/final-bow-pepe-smiths-last-rock-n-roll-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Final bow: Pepe Smith\u2019s last rock n roll at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BtKGR2aFU_G\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; 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font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sanyasmith007\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sanya Smith<\/a> (@sanyasmith007) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-01-28T00:16:15+00:00\">Jan 27, 2019 at 4:16pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Philippine music industry mourns as one of the recognized founding fathers of rock in the country \u2013 Joseph William Feliciano \u201cPepe\u201d Smith \u2013 takes his final bow at the age of 71.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ang himig natin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ang inyong awitin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Upang tayo\u2019y magsama-sama<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sa langit ng pag-asa<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed Juan de la Cruz band\u2019s \u201cAng Himig Natin\u201d composed by none other than Pepe, resonates with the hearts crying for his passing around 7:00 a.m. on Monday, January 28; for now, they can only hear his trademark <em>rock n roll<\/em> live in their memories.<\/p>\n<p>The news first broke out as one of his daughters, Daisy Smith-Owen took to Facebook to post about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for everything (my) papa bear <em>ko<\/em>. Thank you for being the best dad in the world. I know you\u2019re in the best place now, no more pains papa\u2026,\u201d Daisy writes as a caption to a photo with her father.<\/p>\n<p>Scrolling downward in her timeline though is a series of updates regarding her father\u2019s condition moments before.<\/p>\n<p>On 6:48 a.m. she asked her friends to pray for her dad, whom she said was rushed to the hospital that morning.<\/p>\n<p>7:02 a.m. on the clock, Daisy says, \u201cPapa! Don\u2019t! Please!\u201d which was followed by a \u201cPapa\u2026 please come back! Don\u2019t leave us! Please come back!\u201d a couple of minutes after.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, his other daughter Sanya Smith uploaded a photo, captioned with a heart and a cloud icon.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were revealed by his family on his cause of death but he has reportedly suffered from stroke in 2017 and undergone a gallbladder surgery in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>As posted in his Facebook timeline, he had shared to his friends and followers on November 2018 that he has a cataract, elaborating that he is \u201creally depressed\u201d in the state that he is in, as he is \u201chopeless,\u201d \u201calmost blind,\u201d and \u201cuseless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1971, Pepe joined the Juan de la Cruz band founded by Wally Gonzales as a singer-drummer-composer; forming the iconic trio with Mike Hanopol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; View this post on Instagram &nbsp; &#x1f495;&#x2601;&#xfe0f; A post shared by Sanya Smith (@sanyasmith007) on Jan 27, 2019 at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":199577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199575","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=199575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}