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Joey De leon - Bio, Albums, Songs and Lyrics - OPM Filipino MusicThe Story of Joey de LeonJose Maria Ramos de Leon is a famous, multi-talented artist. He is a singer, a comedian, and a TV host. He is popularly known as Joey de Leon in show business. He hosted Eat Bulaga!, the longest running noontime show and was part of the comedy trio, Tito, Vic and Joey. Joey, as a songwriter, composed number of hit songs which are now considered classics such as “Ipagpatawad Mo”, “Awitin Mo”, “Isasayaw Ko”, “Boyfriend Kong Baduy”, “Iskul Bukol” etc. He was born on October 14, 1946 in Manila, Philippines and spent his childhood days in Sampaloc, Manila. His father Jose Seoane de Leon of Spanish descent never lived with them. The elder brother of his father sent money to Joey’s mother to educate his son. Joey’s traumatic experience happened when he was nearly drowned during family outing and developed a phobia for bodies of water. Joey and his mother lived with his mother’s relative and his high school expenses were shouldered by his aunt and his godmother. His father’s pension totally paid his college fees in National University taking up Architecture. After two, year, Joey decided to stop study and took several odd jobs. His cousin & best friend urged him to meet Karina Afable, a radio personality but eventually ended auditioning for radio announcer. Joey was not interest but his friend included him in the list secretly and passed the said audition. He was married to Daria Ramirez and bore him two sibling, Keempee de leon & Cheenee de Leon. He also had three children from Eileen Macapagal, Jocas, Jako and Jio. He has four grandchildren, one from Kempee and three from Cheenee. When he passed the audition, it served his jumpstart for his career. Some of his colleagues were the late Inday Badiday, Ike Lozada, Johnny de Leon and Helen Vela. In five years, he worked in 12 FM stations and doing jobs as gag writer and songwriter at the same time. His first exposure on TV was IBC’s gag Ok Lang starring together with Tito, Vic and Val Sotto, Ricky Manalo and the APO Hiking Society. On 1975, he hosted Discorama, GMA’s Network early afternoon variety show together Bobby Ledesma which was suffering from low rating. When Bobby was on vacation, he delegated his show to Joey and Joey invited the trio brothers. Only Tito and Vic accepted the invitation and started to do comedy segments of the show. The show was supposedly to be terminated but the three gave it new life and saved the show from axing. In the segment, Discorama Tough Hits, the group released 12 hit albums. They were soon invited in Student Canteen, Bobby’s noontime show. Though exposed enough, the group does not received much recognition until their sitcom Iskul Bukol. Soon after, TV and movie producers were rushing to the door of the trio. In 1979, Tito, Vic and Joey hosted Eat Bulaga!, a less established than Student Canteen. But eventually, Eat Bulaga! overthrew Student Canteen in ratings. Joey already doing solo movies such as She-Man: Mistress of the Universe which eventually became a big hit. He also played in a topbilled Joey and Son, a sitcom in RPN. He was a part of the gag on TODAS where he co-starred with Jimmy Santos and Val Sotto. Other TV shows as solo comedian included Apple Pie, Patis, Atbp., The Sharon Cuneta Show and Let’s Go Crazy. He also tried directing movies as Romeo Loves Juliet and Small, Medium, Large. The gang of three entered into controversy when Pepsi Paloma accused them of raping her. The case was settled and the three asked public apology to Paloma but the latter hanged herself in 1985. When his movie Starzan became a box-office hit in 1989, it was followed by another two sequels of the movie. He was named Box-Office King for that year and garnered the titled as Sequel King in his movies like Barbi, Elvis and James, Long Ranger en Tonton etc. When movies eventually declined, he focused his attention in TV, although he appeared in some movies. In 1995, he returned to movies thru Bangers for Viva Films, latter followed by hit films such as Pipti-pipti, Ang Tipo Kong Lalake and Takot Ako Sa Darling Ko. Joey was suspended by MTRBC twice from hosting Eat Bulaga!. The first was in 2003 and the second was on 2004. But after a month, he was allowed to air on the show. Since the incident happened, Joey disciplined himself but retained his naughty ways in telling jokes. After a long hiatus in music recording, Joey returned to the said field on December 2006. He recorded his novelty song, Itaktak Mo based on past and comtemporay hits. The song had a unique quality that can be considered either as pop or a dance hit and even a ballroom song. It was launched on on Eat Bulaga! shortly before Christmas and was included in Joey’s album Joey To The World 2. It gained airplay in most FM station in a short period of time. Eventually, it was included in Eat Bulaga!’s segment Taktak Mo o Tatakbo which replaced Laban o Bawi. It was used also as one the official dances of StarStruck 4. On August 29, 2007, Joey was the subjects of the Willie Revillame’s tirades while casting Eat Bulaga! in Hong Kong. On August 30, 2007, Joey answered him by advising Willie in a 10-minute speech, Explain Before You Complain. Willie then consequently asked pardon to de Leon for his attacks. He took leave of absence in Startalk on September 15, 2007 after MTRCB issued an order to prevent Joey in commenting further on the Wilyonaryo scam but later returned to the show on October 6, 2007. After the hit song, Itaktak Mo, it was followed by another song, Kagat Labi Song which was launched on Eat Bulaga! on September 2007. He was seen in film series of Enteng Kabisote with Vic Sotto. On February of the following year, he released another single entitled Walang Daya. It was first heard in Mel and Joey and included in the album Kagat Labi on 2008 under Emi Philippines. Presently, he still host GMA’s programs such as Eat Bulaga!, Mel and Joey, Startalk and Takeshi’s Castle. He appeared also in Nuts Entertainment and also one of the judges in StarStruck of the station. In ABC, he started another show, Teka Mona in replacement of Wow Mali, Joey’s longest running TV show in ABC. He writes entertainment in his column De Leon’s Den in Manila Bulletin. Albums
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