Filipino singer-songwriter and Best New Artist nominee at the 39th Awit Awards. His debut EP, Learn to Love Again, is out now, and so is its reworked second edition, (at the Backdoor).
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Learn to Love Again came out on October 14, 2026 with Underdog Music. On November 15, 2026 the same five songs came back reworked as (at the Backdoor).
Listen to Learn to Love Again on SpotifyDebut EP
October 14, 2026 · 5 songs
Five songs, written as five stages of coming back from burnout: stepping away, frustration, letting yourself cry, rest, and a love that is real. Co-produced with David Lina.
Listen to Learn to Love Again (at the Backdoor) on SpotifySecond edition
November 15, 2026 · 5 songs
The same five songs, reworked: the relapse, kalma, broken, pahinga and yearner versions.
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Also out: Ahon Na, sung with his father, Noel Cabangon, and Bukas Palad Music Ministry (February 23, 2026).
Listen on SpotifyGab wrote the EP as five stages of burnout recovery. Pick the line that sounds most like you today and start with that song. If it’s for a friend, send it to them.
“I also think that learning to love again isn’t necessarily linear.”
how are you, really?
it isn’t linear. start wherever you are.
for letting go
October 14, 2026, the EP’s focus track
“a song about learning to let go, to step away para ma-rediscover mo ‘yung sarili mo” (so you can rediscover yourself)
Written after a pause from music during the pandemic, for anyone who has burned out, had their heart broken, or felt left behind. Stepping away from something you love, and finding your way back to it at your own pace.
“I also realized after writing everything that I just needed to show up.”
Three sessions on the Wish 107.5 Bus, café and bar stages with his band, and solo nights with just a guitar. Press play: each video opens here.
“The song offers comfort, rest, and emotional refuge.”
Gab Palanca on bass, Louise Ann Calairo on keys and Raf Marquez on drums, with Cha Martinez or CJ Araneta on lead guitar and Ralph Lauren Juatchon or Rhoxene Octaviano on trumpet.
guitar, bass, keys, trumpet, drums
Just Gab and a guitar: the songs stripped back for smaller rooms.
Pieces on Beautiful Day, and a talk about the EP with MYX.
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Metro Manila. guitar, songs, and a lot of feelings.
Folk runs in the family. Gab played alongside his father, the folk singer-songwriter Noel Cabangon, became a regular at the old Conspiracy Garden, and fronted the indie band K.E., whose last release came out in 2016.
Then creative burnout made him put the guitar down. What brought him back was Pieces, a song he had written during the pandemic as an anniversary gift for his then-girlfriend, now his wife, Geli.
“I don’t know if I will succeed or fail but I would rather have tried than deal with what-ifs.”
Pieces came out in September 2025 and earned him a Best New Artist nomination at the 39th Awit Awards. Kama followed, a song about rest that Geli told him to record after hearing it at the dinner table, then Ikot Ulit and ngayon at kailanman.
In October 2026 the four came together with a new song, Love Again, as his debut EP, made with his long-time friend and music director David Lina. Its sound is what he calls nonchalant millennial sadboi indie pop: chill guitar lines and soulful singing about the phases of life and heartache, the romantic kind and the other kind.
Along the way he has shared stages with Rivermaya, Ebe Dancel, Nyoy Volante and Johnoy, and played small shows in the US and Australia. He’s back in the studio with David, recording new songs for next year.
Gab is Executive Director of the Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit (OPM), a non-profit welfare organization for professional singers, and has been Program and Marketing Director of the PhilPop MusicFest Foundation since 2019. In October 2026 he accepted OPM’s Music Foundation of the Year award at the Filipino Music Awards.
“We want our songwriters to champion the diversity of Filipino culture.”
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“Gab Cabangon is learning to love music again.”
“a deeply personal project that serves as an open diary of his experiences as a millennial”
“This song comforts those in pain, reminding them it’s okay to feel and heal in their own time.”
