Willie Nepomuceno, often referred to as Willie Nep, is an impersonator and tv, degree, and movie actor. He used to be born in Marikina. He’s the eldest son of Leonardo Nepomuceno, a policeman and beginner boxer, and Francisca, a beautician and pianist. He graduated with a point in positive arts on the College of the Philippines (UP) Diliman in 1971. He took a brief path on the Asian Institute of Control, and in addition studied voice and musical composition below the tutelage of well-known baritone and voice trainer Aurelio Estanislao.

Whilst a scholar at UP, he used to be energetic in campus politics. He used to be the founding chair of the Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan, served as managing editor of the coed newsletter Philippine Collegian, a member of the UP Scholar Council, used to be with the audio system bureau of the Motion for a Democratic Philippines, and used to be with the historical Diliman Commune in 1971. He used to be energetic in pre-martial legislation protest rallies within the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies the place he agitated demonstrators along with his witty and hard-hitting impersonation of President Ferdinand Marcos. In 1970, he delivered his personal state of the country sooner than fellow scholar protesters when Marcos addressed Congress at the state of the country.

Whilst a college scholar, he labored as a graphic artist at ABS-CBN within the past due Nineteen Sixties. His first look on tv used to be as an occasional visitor within the gag display Tremendous Laff-In, 1970-72, ABS-CBN. He left tv when martial legislation used to be declared in 1972. He labored as an illustrator for textbooks on the Science Training Heart in Diliman, Quezon Town. He used to be additionally a mission supervisor on the Building Academy of the Philippines (DAP) till the past due Seventies. He returned to the leisure trade, whilst nonetheless with DAP, when he did a stand-up impersonation of widespread display industry other people and President Marcos within the first Tinig Awards of the Nationwide Press Membership in 1979.

He has since then been recognized for impersonating celebrities, corresponding to singers Rico J. Puno, Mike Hanopol, Freddie Aguilar, Anthony Castelo, Darius Razon, Elvis Presley, Stevie Surprise, actors Dolphy and Fernando Poe Jr, martial arts professional Jackie Chan, boxer Manny Pacquiao, politicians Luis “Chavit” Singson and Alfredo Lim, and the spiritual corresponding to Jaime Cardinal Sin and Pope Francis. He has spoofed 4 presidents: Marcos, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, and Benigno Aquino III. He has caricatured Estrada for the reason that latter used to be mayor of San Juan.

On tv, he co-hosted the sport display Sport na Sport (Actually Sport), 1979, BBC 2. All over the EDSA Insurrection in 1986, he used to be within the so-called Victory Broadcast on Channel 4, at the side of fellow artists, when the station used to be taken over by means of anti-Marcos forces. His maximum vital display used to be the lampoon gag display Ispup (Spoof), 1999-2004, ABC 5, with comedians Leo Martinez, Jon Santos, and Sweet Pangilinan. It parodied broadcast systems and advertisements. The actors mimicked and caricatured tv and movie personalities, politicians, and public figures. The sketches lampooned present political occasions, such because the Abu Sayyaf hostage taking, the ineptitude of the police to struggle drug lords, and corruption in prime puts.

Nepomuceno performed vital roles within the horror movie Black Mamba, 1974, and the bio motion pictures Chavit, 2003, concerning the lifetime of Ilocos Sur governor Luis “Chavit” Singson, and The Guerilla Is a Poet, 2013, concerning the struggles of Communist Celebration of the Philippines founder Jose Ma. Sison. He popularized songs that mimic the voice and elegance of outstanding figures. Examples of those come with “Do the Sherap,” 1991, which imitated the voice of former president Estrada, and “Opisina” (Place of work), 1991, which copied the vocal staccato taste of actor Dolphy. He has recorded 5 voice-music albums and produced a hit displays within the Philippines and in a foreign country for a reason, corresponding to elevating price range for sufferers of media killings.

His vital works in theater had been the are living comedy displays E-Buddy: The Musical (Grandstander: The Musical), 2013, and The Votes of the Philippines: The Repeat Display, 2015, each on the Tune Museum, wherein he parodied native politics. In The Votes of the Philippines, he ridiculed presidential hopefuls who spew all over the place their inconsequential political schedule, then afterward chastised them for his or her wanton robbery of the treasury, loss of knowledge, and overlook for reality. One of the vital hilarious segments of The Votes used to be the video appearing the try to break out from jail by means of detained characters Attractive, Pogi, and Tanda, relating to senators allegedly fascinated about corruption.

As a result of his humor, Nepomuceno has gained veiled threats on his lifestyles and occupation, starting from libel fits to bodily hurt.On the top of martial legislation, Data Minister Gregorio Cendaña warned him to forestall imitating Marcos. He prefers to name his funny mimic acts impressions fairly than impersonation. His displays and performances, which he himself writes, are “extra of a soul-searching recollection, for the collective conscience or loss of it that our individuals are leaving as legacy to the following technology” (Galang-Pereña 2015).