For a four-decade-old Philippine disco band, the namesake supertyphoon bearing d...
MANILA - For a four-decade-old Philippine disco band, the namesake supertyphoon bearing down on Japan has brought a sudden rush of interest in its macho act.
“Hagibis is getting indirect publicity worldwide,” said 61-year-old Jose Parsons Nabiula, who goes by his stage name Sonny Parsons and has been with the band since the start. Google Trends showed that search interest had spiked this week in Hagibis the band as well as the typhoon.Tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean are given their identity in sequence based on names provided by 14 regional countries.
A former elected official, he now also juggles his performances with film-making and a construction business.Typhoon Hagibis looks on track to hit Japan a month after another destructive typhoon and Parsons said he was worried about the damage.
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