JERRY A. TABIRAO

The main lyricist/composer of the group is a Commerce Accounting graduate at the Lyceum of the Philippines and is presently working as Head of the Budget Office of the Philippine National Museum. He loves to work with his computer. A very good folksinger in his own right and once a finalist in the 1st National Pinoy Folk Competition in the late '70s also participated in by the popular groups of folksingers Asin, PenPen, and Coritha. Jerry, also known to close friends as DEURDS, also played competitive basketball during his teen years and thus a veteran of numerous local tournaments. He owns more than a hundred original song compositions, still unrecorded, that varies from Bicol, Tagalog, and English and had been gifted the talent of writing songs in just about twenty or so minutes. He is the only son of the late Felix Tabirao and former Elpia Arcilla, and is married to the former Veronica Sumalde of the musically inclined Alcala/Sumalde family.They were blessed with four children - Gerardo Paolo, Patricia Angela, Maria Divina and Jericho Emmanuel. Deurds is a forever member of the Jubilant Choir.

Nonong, as what his close friends calls him is the only musician by profession in the group and is also the chief arranger. He plays various kinds of musical instruments and started his music career with the Jubilant Sounds at the Catanduanes Hotel in 1981. A former keyboard player of the Arcilla Band, once a member of Boy Sullivans Band, The Music Family Band in Manila, and the Band Leader of Music Academy Band in Kumamoto, Japan in 1991. A fourth year engineering student in Technology Institute of the Philippines before settling in music world and is a Basic Computer graduate at Systems Technological Institute (STI). He is also an athletic scholar at the CSC being a member of the 1978-1981 Basketball Varsity, and a veteran of the 1st National SCUAA in Isabela and is one of the high leaping small players at the CSC had, also a veteran of regional invitationals and local tuornaments. He is also the official accompanist of the first finalist from Catanduanes, National Level (wind instruments) at National Music Competition for Young Artist (NAMCYA) in 1978 at Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Nonong is married to the former Marilou Sebastian and like his brother Nelson, are the only sons of the late Jose Icaranom, Sr. and former Sangguniang Bayan Member, the late Gloria Masagca-Icaranom. He is also a forever member of the Jubilant Choir, and presently the Manager for Operations of the Music Systems, The Art of Electronic Music.