MEMBERS
Ian Tayao – vocals8 Toleran – guitars
Enzo Ruidera – guitars
Paolo Manuel – drums
2ts calinawan – bass
Biboy Garcia – turnatables
CJ Olaguera – conggas
DISCOGRAPHY
Untitled 2-song EP (1998, Only 500 “cassettes”)Cheese (1998, Warner)
Pilipinas (2001, Warner)
Buhay Queso (2004, A dvd home video documentary, limmited copies were sold by the band but it was never released commercially)
Queso (2006, Distributed by EMI)
INTERESTING FACTS
- The band used to be called Cheese
- They changed their name to Queso due to issues with their old record label
- The band was formed in 1994
- They recorded a two-song EP in 1998 which included the songs Fine and The Way
- Ian Tayao won vocalist of the year in the 2002 NU 107 Rock Awards
- The band won the Listener�s Choice Award for their album Pilipinas in the 2002 NU 107 Rock Awards
- Queso is QC based (*)
- Pioneering members, 2ts Calinawan, Enzo Ruidera and former drummer Pow Rosal and all three went to the same high school
- Pow Rosal was just 13 when he started playing drums for Cheese and it was his first time to play drums/be in a band
- While still a trio, competed and regularly won or placed in local “battle of the bands” competitions in QC, 2ts took on vocal duties then
- 8 toleran used to play guitars for the rock n�roll-blues outfit Piranha before he joined Queso in 97 after seeing them perform at ClubDredd
- 2000, Biboy Garcia replaced RT de Ano as the group�s turntablist/DJ � who had also been a member of ChicoSci and Greyhoundz before joining Queso
- 2ts, Enzo and Ian are the group�s primary song writers
- 8 Toleran stands as the groups producer. Although all of them actively participate on the entire process of making a studio album, post and pre, 8 toleran took it up during college. All three albums have been co-produced by the band
- They all have “Queso” tatooed somewhere on their body
- Along with Greyhoundz, Slapshock and the now defunct Zooooom � Queso (then Cheese) were the last “regular” bands to play at Club Dredd KM19 before it closed
- 2003, Robert dela Cruz (skychurch) took on drum duties replacing Pow Rosal
- They call their music “Tropical island Grunge”
- Pow Rosal now plays drums for Kapatid
- 2006, won the local championships of The World Battle of the Bands and went on to play HK for the world finals
- Queso is managed by Backbeat(Richard Tan) who also manages Kamikazee, Parokya ni Edgar and TheYouth to name a few
- Queso is part of BrgyTibay. Other members � Greyhoundz, Sinosikat, Cosmiclove and Kapatid to name a few with gigs on the first wednesday of every month at Cafe SaGuijo in Makati.
