Maki

3 upcoming shows in the Philippines

Maki is a Filipino singer-songwriter whose Filipino-language ballads became widely streamed fixtures of the current OPM wave. His writing is direct and emotionally plain, in the tradition of Philippine ballad songwriting, and his following was built through streaming and social platforms. That combination — plainly emotional writing in Filipino, distributed through streaming rather than radio — is characteristic of how the current generation of OPM balladeers has reached a national audience without label backing.