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New York Times obit on Rico J. Puno: A Pinoy ‘soul music pioneer’

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/entertainment/10/31/20181027-rico-j.jpg"/><figcaption>A photo of Rico J. Puno when he made a guest appearance on an ABS-CBN game show back in 2015.</figcaption></figure></div>Rico J. Puno has been described as a &quot;soul music pioneer&quot; in the Philippines, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/obituaries/rico-puno-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR1lEc3r1rnxDT93CCrBEBDXbxBSODeRdEIZXIEVkcGOAXCAs8xT5erWfsU">New York Times</a> posted on its obituary of the OPM legend.Puno, whose star rose in the 1970s, was said to have endeared himself to young women after he &quot;impishly&quot; called himself the &quot;ultimate Macho Gwapito,&quot; a term usually reserved for &quot;rising movie teen stars.&quot; Puno was also lauded by the US-based publication as one of the &quot;biggest stars of the glory days of Filipino music,&quot; and was praised for how he helped &quot;forged&quot; Manila Sound, more known today as OPM. There was also a part explaining his appeal, mainly about the way he &quot;covered American hits in a mix of English and Tagalog,&quot; such as his takes on &quot;The Way We Were&quot; and &quot;Baby I&#x27;m for Real.&quot;The obituary also listed examples of why he was considered a &quot;larger-than-life total entertainer,&quot; citing his stints as a spokesperson for a beer brand, a TV host, a sitcom star, and a politician. The article on Puno, who <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/10/30/18/opm-icon-rico-j-puno-passes-away">died</a> at the age of 65 this Tuesday, was written by Mike Ives for the New York Times. <ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/10/30/18/remembering-rico-j-puno-opm-legend-sings-his-greatest-hits-on-abs-cbn">READ: Remembering Rico J. Puno: OPM legend sings his greatest hits on ABS-CBN</a></li></ul>

New York Times writer Mike Ives described Rico J. Puno as a "larger-than-life total entertainer."

New York Times writer Mike Ives described Rico J. Puno as a "larger-than-life total entertainer."