
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. The genre flourished and peaked in the mid to late-1970s during the Philippine martial law era and has influenced most of the modern genres in the country by being the forerunner to OPM.


Manila sound is a music genre in the Philippines that began in the mid-1970s in Metro Manila.
