So while artists like Jess Santiago and Heber Bartolome continued writing protest songs, these mostly could not be performed until the late 1970s when international scrutiny and local conditions forced Marcos to loosen the reins somewhat.
[14] Another group prominent on the picket lines was the female duo of Karina Constantino-David and Becky Demetillo Abraham, who formed the band Inang Laya, and became well known for their adaptation of the Andres Bonifacio song Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa.
For example, Mike Pillora Jr., Cesar Bañares Jr., and Lolita Carbon did not aim to be political when they formed Asin, but the socially relevant themes of their songs such as "Balita" and "Masdan mo ang Kapaligiran" led their records to sometimes be confiscated by authorities, and at other times for the band to be invited to play at official events.
"The Little Songbird"), whose slain titular bird cries out "Mamang kay lupit, ang puso mo’y di na nahabag" ("Cruel man, your heart feels no pity!
[23][24] Bayan Ko, the patriotic kundiman written in the 1920s, was deemed seditious through the earliest years of the Marcos regime; public performances of the song were banned, with violators facing potential arrest and detention.
[25] Circumstances changed after the 1983 Assassination of Ninoy Aquino, however, as public anger against the Marcos dictatorship erupted, leading to the weekly protest rallies attended by both the masses and the middle class, and the increasing participation of previously silent groups such as businesses and churches.
[28] Elsewhere, the largely Catholic EDSA crowd - encouraged to join the protest by Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, erupted in occasional renditions of "Ave Maria", "Our Father", and various other songs.
[32] (Look at what is happening in our country/the rich and poor came together/ linked arms, the nun, the priest, and the soldier/ this part of the world had become heaven)The lyrics of the song are inscribed on a wall of Our Lady of EDSA Shrine,[31] one of the three monuments which would be built to commemorate Martial Law and the People Power revolution.