It is easy to forget, after decades of calling him Direk Bobot, that Edgar Mortiz did not begin in show business behind the camera.

Before the iconic comedy shows, the youth-oriented programs, the sitcoms and the countless stars he helped guide, Direk Bobot was first a singer. Not an actor who later learned to sing for variety shows or a director who decided one day to make music for nostalgia’s sake, but a boy whose first door this business opened because he could carry a tune.

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