Jam Sebastian

Jam Sebastian was born at 7:37 PM on Thursday, 20 March 1986 at the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center and was the second son of Vilmo Flores Sebastian (born 28 August 1961, Santa Cruz, Manila)^[4] and Maria Carmen "Maricar" G. Fernando.^[1] His older brother Yexel is a toy collector who owns three toy museums in the Philippines.^[5]

Before JaMich, Sebastian had described his relationship with Paolinne Michelle Liggayu as puppy love.^[6] Sebastian had also confirmed during an interview with StarStudio Magazine that they aka "JaMich" have been a couple since 2008.^[7]

JaMich became one of YouTube's popular love teams in 2011. By Chance was their first uploaded video which gained more than seven million views with 543,163 accumulated subscribers.^[8] The duo joined Twitter in June 2011 and has since acquired over a million followers.^[9] After six years, the official engagement of JaMich was announced. It was Liggayu who proposed to Sebastian at the Philippine International Convention Center on 11 May 2014.^[10]

In January 2014, Sebastian was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.^[11][12][13] He died on 4 March 2015,^[14][15] sixteen days before his 29th birthday. Jam was buried at the Manila Memorial Park – Sucat Parañaque.