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Ron Josol is a professional Canadian stand-up comedian of Filipino descent who performs around the globe. He is the first Filipino Canadian Comedian in canada and is also an actor.
Ron has taped numerous stand-up comedy specials in his career. He first achieved his own comedy special in 2000, “Comedy Now,” on CTV/Comedy network. He has been featured in ABS-CBN’s Slanted comedy taped at the San Jose Improv and recently recorded two comedy specials produced by Showtime Dubai for a record crowd of 2,500. The first, called, “Friday Night Live in the Middle East,” and the second called “the New World Order,” were aired and sold to 14 countries.
YouTube sensation Moymoy Palaboy, two Pinoy lip-synching siblings from the phillippines, whose uproarious antics have earned them millions of hits worldwide.
Anjelo, is a Filipino bboy from Hawaii, best known as Lil Demon. At 6 years old he represents Stylistics, Hypersquad and ACDC bboy crews. Check out this clip we found on you tube, he’ll blow your mind.
Ryan Conferido is a Filipino American bboy, best known for being a contestant on the first season of the United States dance competition television series, So You Think You Can Dance (2005).
Conferido started his own crew called Quest together with Hokuto “Hok” Konishi, Steve Terada, Victor Kim, Nick Teti, Brian Hirano & Aris Paracuelles. Ryan Conferido and his dance crew QUEST will be competing on the Americas Best Dance Crew Season 3 Airing on MTV Januanry 15, 2009. Here are a couple of videos of Quest and Ryan performing. check it out!
Bboy Mouse has represented the Philippines, flying the flag high in every move possible, all in his master plan to give back home, the recognition the Philippines deserves. Ereson ‘Mouse’ Catipon started bboying when he moved to England in 1996 from the Philippines, and has branded his name in UK bboying. In 2006, Mouse achieved his lifelong ambition and became the World Solo BBoy Champion!
Here’s a list of sites that we here at Brown Nation think you should know about. These are quick links to spots on the web that relate to culture, music, and arts, as well as a listing of random sites that we like.