Jessie Lasaten
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Jessie Q. Lasaten (born 1960s)[1] is a Filipino composer and animation producer.
Lasaten attended elementary school and high school at the Saint Louis University in Baguio.[1] During third grade, Lasaten realized that he was partially deaf in his left ear.[1] He was a first-year political science student at the university when he gained the desire to pursue a career in music.[2]
After graduating from Saint Louis, Lasaten proceeded to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he later graduated summa cum laude.[2]
Career
After graduating from Berklee, Lasaten returned to the Philippines in the early 1990s and was hired as a jingle writer.[1] In 1994, he was encouraged by Dodie Lucas of RoadRunner Network to become a film composer, and was eventually referred by songwriter Nonoy Tan to OctoArts Films.[1] Lasaten's debut film score was for the film Loretta, which was later embroiled in the 1994 Manila Film Festival scandal.[1]
Lasaten has been the resident composer for ABS-CBN and its film outfit Star Cinema, having headed by 2000 the Music and Sound Group of the ABS-CBN-owned post-production company RoadRunner Network (now defunct).[1] In 2000, he composed the musical score for the ABS-CBN television series Pangako sa 'Yo.[3] In addition to his film scores, Lasaten has also composed music for several Christmas station IDs of ABS-CBN since the 1990s,[1][4] such as the 2004 Christmas station ID he composed with lyricist Robert G. Labayen: "Sabay Tayo, Kapamilya".[5]
In 2007, as CEO of Cutting Edge Productions, Lasaten began producing the animated fantasy film Dayo: Sa Mundo ng Elementalia, for which he also served as composer; it was theatrically released on December 25, 2008, as an entry to the 34th Metro Manila Film Festival.[6][7] His company later provided additional animation for El Americano: The Movie, a 2016 Mexican-American animated film produced by Animex Producciones.[8][9]