Black-eyed peas apl de ap biography

Filipino-American rapper, singer and record producer (born )

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Pineda and the surname or paternal family name is Lindo.

Allan Pineda Lindo (born November 28, ), known professionally as (AP-əl-dee-AP), is a Filipino-American rapper, singer and record producer. He is a founding member of the hip hop group Black Eyed Peas (BEP). With the BEP, he has been nominated for 16 Grammy Awards, winning 6, including Best Pop Vocal Album.

Early life

Allan Pineda Lindo was born in Angeles City, Philippines. His Filipino mother, Cristina Pineda, raised him and his six younger siblings as a single mother. His African American father, an airman stationed at Clark Air Base, left the family shortly after his birth. As a child, Pineda would make an hour-long jeepney trip to and from his school and helped his family subsist by farming sweet potatoes, corn, sugar cane and rice. The Pearl S. Buck Foundation, an organization that finds healthier living environments for young, abandoned, or orphaned American children, matched him with a sponsor named Joe Ben Hudgens, a lawyer, through a dollar-a-day program.

Allan initially came to the US at age eleven for treatment for nystagmus, an involuntary movement of the eyes. After a trip to Disneyland, Pineda expressed his interest in residing in the US. It would take another three years for Hudgens to officially adopt him, but at age fourteen, he relocated and resided with them.

In Los Angeles, California, Pineda attended John Marshall High School, where he met and befriended William Adams (stage name ), the nephew of Hudgens' roommate.

Pineda's early musical influences came from his mother who listened to Stevie Wonder, the Eagles, the Beatles, and the Filipino rock/folk group Asin. Pineda was introduced to hip hop and break dancing by watching urban kids in Angeles City: "I would see kids at the corn

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Allan Pineda Lindo known as , started, a decade ago, a journey around music´s world, fulled of dreams that were getting achieved little by little. With 7 studio albums, whose sales reach over 60 millions of copies, massive tours around America, Europe and Asia, six grammy awards and top hits such as “Where Is The Love”, “Pump It” and “I Gotta Feeling”, that´s pretty much the way that Black Eyed Peas has gotten a spot in the music industry. This musical projection was not but a utopia for a Philippine kid, who mixed up his studies with fishing and agriculture as well in order to help his single mother with the feeding of his siblings.

Born in Sapang Bato, Angeles City, Pampanga, in the Philippines, dreamed about becoming either an engineer or nursery, however he thought this was impossible due to the jokes made by his teachers and classmates because of the eye disease he has since he was a kid, the popular nystagmus, that causes a vibration involuntary and uncontrollable in his eyes, besides he suffers from blurry vision and myopia that makes it hard to recognize distant objects.

“You will do nothing in the future if you are not even able to distinguish the board” said Apl’s teacher at school. “I knew it was going to be hard to do something on my own , but music gave me the way to achieve my dreams, I do not need to see well to create music but connect all my senses and have the passion for what I do” added

His taste for music started in when he was 14 and he moved to Los Angeles, California to finish his studies. Apl was part of the adoption program from the organization Pearl S. Buck where American families adopted a Filipino child to provide them education and a better quality of life. It was there, in high school when Apl realized his hearing and taste in music, which showed dancing and humming rhythms based on what he heard around, beside his classmate

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Allen Pineda Lindo, (b. 28 November ) is better known as He was born in the impoverished district of Sapang Bato in Angeles City in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. He is of Afro-Filipino descent.

is part of a famous hip hop group, the Black Eyed Peas. During his rough childhood days, grew up in Barrio Sapang Bato. At the age of 14, he was adopted by the Hudgens, an American family, and moved to Los Angeles, California, leaving behind his birth family and country. However, he has stayed very loyal to both his biological family and to the Philippines, identifying himself as a Filipino American. He explains his life story in a song called "The Apl Song" found on the Black Eyed Peas album Elephunk (Track 11). This song has a full chorus in Tagalog (Filipino) taken from the Asian song "Balita".

As a member of the popular rap group Black Eyed Peas, has overcome tremendous odds by achieving success despite his humble beginnings. In an interview on VH1, he recalls In the Philippines, you've got to dig up the ground to do a number two, and then you've got to cover it up. You got to pump the water out of the ground to wash your clothes and your hands. That's my ghetto! left Pampanga at age 14 to join his adoptive family in Southern California. There, he and childhood friend Will (a.k.a. ) formed a break dancing crew called "Tribal Nation", which would later evolve into Black Eyed Peas when the duo added mike skills and rapper Jaime "Taboo" Gomez to the mix. Their first album, Behind the Front was released in to critical acclaim, and was followed by Bridging the Gap in featuring a guest appearance by Macy Gray as well as members of Jurassic 5 and De La Soul.

Unlike some Filipinos who have shied away from acknowledging their Pinoy roots, embraces his heritage, even in his work. His landmark "The Apl Song," from 's Elephunk, features a chorus sung completely in Tagalog and speaks of his experience as a Filipino American. Its accompanying video, w