"Kaleidoscope World" is a 1995 song performed by the Filipino rap artist Francis Magalona. It was first included in his 1995 studio albumFreeman.[1] The song is also included in a later album, Best of FrancisM.[2]
The song went on to win the 1996 Awit Award for Best Produced Record of the Year, and the 1996 NU 107 Rock Award for Song of the Year. Its music video was directed by the celebrated director/cinematographer Raymond Red, and showed Magalona, his band Hardware Syndrome, his backup singers the Evil Stepsisters, and the respective children of Magalona and Red at that time.[3][4][5]
After Magalona's death the song was the one used in many of the tributes to the artist, including an audio-visual presentation fromEat Bulaga!, the noontime variety program of which Magalona was a co-host, and a short rendering of the song at the Eraserheads' "Final Set" reunion concert, which the band dedicated to Magalona.[6]
In May 2013, Francis' son Elmo Magalona released a remake of the song as a duet between him and his dad entitled "Kaleidoscope World Forever More". An accompanying music video was created featuring Elmo digitally inserted into the original Music Video.
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