Jong Cuenco

Jong Cuenco is a Filipino musician and actor. He became known as a flutist and an actor, he was back-up singer of good friend Randy Santiago in the 80's. Many people do not know that Jong wanted to become a singer before he decided to make a career out of playing the flute. Jong's talent in singing supported him while he was taking up music at the University of the Philippines.

Not that his Dad, the late Ernani J. Cuenco, National Artist for Music, was not helping in his youngest son's education. Father and son had a falling out after Jong defied the older Cuenco who wanted him to enroll at the UST instead of UP. Jong's father was then a professor at the UST College of Music, and his mother Magdalena, was a piano major, also from UST.