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XONARA & the New Wave - How P-Pop's Class of 2026 Is Writing the Genre's Global Future

Somewhere between the first chord and the last syllable, when a crowd stops watching and starts feeling. It happened on a warm April evening at SMDC Festival Grounds in Parañaque.

Seven young women stepped onto the stage at SB19’s sold-out Wakas at Simula: Trilogy Concert Finale — and before they’d finished their first song, the Philippine pop landscape had quietly, irreversibly shifted.

Their name was XONARA

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