Armi Millare
Musician, CEO and Creative Director at Stoa Studios
Life
Armi Olbes Millare (born January 2, 1984) is a Filipino singer best known as the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the award-winning Filipino alternative rock band, UDD (Up Dharma Down).
Since 2006, her band released four albums and toured extensively around the world (including Asia, the Middle East, US and Canada). The BBC tagged them as the "Asian band to most likely to cross over North American shores" while Time has called the band's music "genre-defying" as well as "both thoughtful and sensual."
Up Dharma Down has garnered critical praise from artists such as Tim Bowness of No-Man, Curt Smith of Tears for Fears, and a collaborative track with Scotland's Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile. Her band UDD released their self-titled fourth album last July 2019.
Stoa Sound, the music-producing body of Stoa Studios was founded by Millare writing original music for film, animation and other media, preserving the same vision and attention to detail as the multi-disciplinary brand.
Discography
With Up Dharma Down
- Fragmented (2006, Terno Recordings)
- Bipolar (2008, Terno Recordings)
- Capacities (2012, Terno Recordings)
- U D D (2019, Terno Recordings)
Solo
- Waiting for a Sign
- Eyeliner
- Delubyo
- Pipikit Ako
- An Attempt to Measure Happiness (Instrumental)
- Yolanda
- Kapit
- Two Worlds
- Into the Clear
- Wrong
Cover Songs
- "Mad World" (Tears for Fears)
- "Tao" from Honor Thy Father Soundtrack – Originally sung by Sampaguita (singer)
- "You" – Originally sung by Basil Valdez
Collaboration with D' Sound
- Millare collaborated with Norwegian/Pop Band D'Sound for "Lykkelig" (Norwegian word for 'happy') and "Somewhere in Between". On October 19, 2018 the music video of Lykkelig was released.
Awards and Nominations
- 13th NU Rock Awards — Best Female Artist (Won) and Vocalist of the Year (Nominated)
- 16th NU Rock Awards — Vocalist of the Year (Won)
- Asia Voice Indie Music Awards (AVIMA) — Best Overall Female Vocalist (Won)
- 11th Golden Screen Awards — Best Original Song: "Indak" from the movie Sana Dati (2013) (Nominated)
- 40th Metro Manila Film Festival — Best Musical Score: English Only, Please (Nominated)
- 41st Metro Manila Film Festival — Best Original Theme Song: "Tao" from the movie Honor Thy Father (Interpreter) (Won)
- 32nd PMPC Star Awards for Movies — Movie Musical Scorer of the Year (Indie): Apocalypse Child (2015) (Nominated) and Movie Original Theme Song of the Year (Indie): "Young Again" from the movie Apocalypse Child (Nominated)
Learn more about the artist on her ikipedia page.
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