In an August 2016 message to fellow songwriter Aaron Paul, Daniel “Danny” Javier said: “It’s not important to me that my name or my work is glorified or remembered…. I hope to go quietly
Javier, who passed away at 75 on Oct. 31, did not exactly get his wish of fading “quietly into the night.”
“Danny once came up to me believing that this one particular song would do wonders for my career. I was fairly new in the music industry and I knew nothing about songs that would tickle a young audience’s heart. He knew,” Valenciano told the Inquirer. He added: “Saying ‘thank you’ is not enough but I think I can perfectly reflect what many of us have felt for you, for all the ways you and the Apo Hiking Society moved us all. I love you my ka-birthday friend. I’m glad you have found rest in His peace.”Sharing the same sentiment is Jaime Garchitorena, who had the “greatest privilege” to interpret Javier’s “Just A Smile Away” in 1990.
Also grateful for Javier’s support early in his career is composer and musical director Louie Ocampo, who wrote his first entry to the Metro Manila Popular Music Festival in 1979, when he was just 19 years old.
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