apl.de.ap

What draws me to apl.de.ap isn't just the Grammy hardware with Black Eyed Peas; it's the distance he traveled. From Angeles City in the Philippines to the top of pop, he never sanded off his roots, weaving Tagalog into global hits when that was a genuine commercial risk. I read that as quiet defiance, a refusal to be flattened into a generic American sound. There's a grit beneath the party anthems that I find moving, and his ongoing connection to Filipino causes tells me the success never went to his head. That blend of joy and rootedness is rarer than it looks.

Name (English)

apl.de.ap

Name (Japanese)

アップル・デ・アップ

Reading

あっぷる・で・あっぷ

Born

November 28, 1974 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

Origin

Philippines

Occupation

rapper / singer / record producer / actor

High school

John Marshall High School

Awards & achievements

• 2021 Asia's Most Influential Philippines

• Official sitehttps://www.apldeapnews.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/apldeap/
• Xhttps://x.com/apl_de
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apl.de.ap
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%83%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q293590

Tags

• rapper
• singer
• record producer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.