Best known as the godfathers of modernizing Filipino cultural music - integrating indigenous Kulintang music with contemporary hip-hop and electronic sounds - DATU is evolving beyond its roots to explore new sonic landscapes, tempos, stories and textures. Under DATU, the duo’s music was featured on TV shows, ad campaigns, and hit Wavelengths music’s Top 100 Canadian Songs List in 2017. Since then,
they’ve racked up over a million video views and performed at music festivals including NXNE and Summerworks. As decade-long collaborators, Lex Junior and Romeo Candido have struck success in the music industry both together and as individuals. Lex Junior, an established composer, has worked with the likes of Just John, Ralph, Maylee Todd and Jessie Reyez, and has been featured on commercials for Apple, Crown Royal, Google and Champion. His signature sound can be heard on Hollywood trailers, TV series and commercial campaigns. Similarly, Romeo is a composer for the critically acclaimed stage musical ‘Prison Dancer’, and is both the
creator and composer of the upcoming CBC musical series ‘Topline’. As a unit, Lex Junior and Romeo Candido are known as the godfathers of contemporary Filipino music, having ushered traditional FIlipino music into the modern world by integrating indigenous Kulintang music with electronic, hip hop and modern sounds.
