Cebu-based musical director shares 'Prayer to end coronavirus'

Cebu-based musical director and composer Dennis Gregory Sugarol has been posting music videos of performances by singers and musicians on his Facebook and YouTube accounts to cope with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

"During the start of the pandemic I make it a point to keep on posting video recordings, performances of my groups, music friends here and abroad, connecting to them in anyway just to share our music and hoping it helps heal and give entertainment," Sugarol told GMA News Online.

"But just recently after my grandmother passed away I've been posting mostly every day, it’s a coping mechanism for me," he added.

Sugarol also shared a video entitled "A Prayer to End Coronavirus (Dedicated to all who have died)."

"Almighty Father, we entrust to you our lives. We pray for the people who have died, and for the healing of all those suffering from the virus. May you also protect everyone else in the entire world. God bless us! #AmahanNamo #MandaueChildrenandYouthChorus #APrayertoEndCoronaVirus"

The song is a Cebuano version of the "Our Father or Amahan Namo" composed by John Pamintuan and performed by the Mandaue Children and Youth Choir.

Sugarol was the conductor while Homer Cang of Hagiazo Audio Recording Studio is sound engineer of the performance recorded at the Sta. Rita chapel in Tabor Hills, Barangay Talamban in Cebu City.

The multi-awarded choir is the same group that performed in Rome, Italy on the eve of the canonization of the country's second saint, Pedro Calungsod, in 2012.

Sugarol said, "Music helps me heal, cope and move on. I want people to experience it as well. Healing, coping and moving forward." -- BAP, GMA News