


A majority of Manila sound songs were composed in Tagalog or Taglish, although some were also written entirely in English. Manila sound typified the prevailing pop sound of the era, and drew its influences from the singer-songwriter genre of American music during the 1970s. pop, vocal music, soft rock, folk pop, disco, soul, Latin jazz, funk etc.), and should therefore be best regarded as a period in Philippine popular music rather than as a single musical style. However, broadly speaking, it includes quite a number of genres (e.g.

The Manila sound is styled as catchy and melodic, smooth, lightly orchestrated, accessible folk/ soft rock, sometimes fused with funk, light jazz and disco.
