Truefaith Celebrates 33 Years With a Career-Spanning Concert This December

On December 8, Truefaith will mark their 33rd year as one of the country’s most prolific popPopShort for popular music, a broad genre built on catchy melodies, clear hooks, and polished production that aims to reach a wide audience. Pop constantly borrows from other styles, andGo to Pop Glossary rock bands with an anniversary concert #at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Pasay City. The six-piece will run through decades of material that shaped their catalog, including “Dahil Ikaw,” “Perfect,” “Huwag Na Lang Kaya,” and other staples that kept the group in steady rotation across radio, bars and living rooms. They will be joined by Jett Pangan of The Dawn, singer-songwriter Ito Rapadas, and Color It Red vocalist Cooky Chua.

The current lineup features vocalist Medwin Marfil, guitarist Eugene Marfil, keyboardist Jake Lumacad, lead guitarist Allan Elgar, bassist Macky Macaventa and drummer Kaka Quisumbing. Their sound has lived across piano-led ballads, synth-popSynth-PopA style of pop music that centers on synthesizers and electronic sounds, rising to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Its glossy, danceable feel keeps returning in newGo to Synth-Pop Glossary touches and pop rock arrangements that held up through shifts in the local music landscape. The group revisited their own catalog several times over the years, including the 2021 vinyl reissue of their 2018 album Sentimental through Backspacer Records.

Formed in 1993 by Medwin Marfil, Francis Guevarra and Ferdie Marquez, the band took its name from the New Order track “True Faith,” a nod to the new wave influences that helped shape their earliest songs. They eventually moved past homage and landed on a style that reached a wide demographic of listeners. Their legacy even crossed into global spaces when American experimental popPopShort for popular music, a broad genre built on catchy melodies, clear hooks, and polished production that aims to reach a wide audience. Pop constantly borrows from other styles, andGo to Pop Glossary duo MGMT referenced them for the 2018 single “Me & Michael,” proof that Truefaith’s imprint reached far beyond local charts.

Elijah Pareño

Music Writer

Elijah Pareño is the Music Writer of Rolling Stone Philippines. He writes daily music news, features, reviews, and radar stories of the website.

In addition to music writing, Pareño has written about the behind-the-scenes writers and producers from the P-pop scene, interviewed hip-hop artists like Shanti Dope and Zae, and featured up-and-coming artists for the Music Forecast 2026. Aside from music, Pareño has written about the state of affairs that affects pop culture. He wrote a movie review for 'Mortal Kombat II' and reported and interviewed photojournalists at the September 21, 2025 protests in Luneta and Mendiola.

Prior to working in Rolling Stone Philippines, Pareño was a freelance writer for 3 years and independent live music promoter

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