Why do we say that controversial singer Jake Zyrus is a CALABARZON star?
Clear and simple.
Even if Jake is a multiverse, his physicality as a chip of the old block is everywhere.
Jake Zyrus' family is spread out in many parts of Southern Tagalog.
Before his grandmother Teopista Relucio died, the old woman was a resident of Santa Rosa, Laguna until she breathed her last in Barangay Magallanes in Lopez, Quezon.
Zyrus' uncle, Robert Relucio, was working in a copra warehouse in the same place before he died in a motorcycle accident.
One of Jake's relatives is living in Mindoro.
And Raquel Pempengco, Zyrus' mom has been moving in from Laguna to Quezon.
After living in Lopez for almost three years, Raquel now reportedly stays in Pagbilao, a town in Quezon Province, still a very part of CALABARZON.
It is in this context that Jake Zyrus is a CALABARZON transman.
And even if the international singer hasn't reached out to his kin especially to Raquel, nothing has changed in them.
As Pempengco exclaimed in an interview: "Kahit gaano katagal siyang hindi mag-reach out sa amin, family pa rin siya."
Through thick and thin, in happiness and sorrow, in life and in death, Jake will be forever be part of the Relucios and the Pempengcos.
You see, he felt bad when Aling Tess and Robert died, immediately one after the other, even if these happened last year.
Zyrus, may not know it but his grandma has been dead for three days, still laid at the Canizares Funeral Homes in Lopez under the care of Robert who was alone and lonely no one had paid a visit and last respects to her among her kin.
It was only after three days that Raquel, according to Ma. Diane Ramos Abrigo-- daughter-in-law of the foster guardian of Aling Tess and employer in the copra warehouse of Robert--finally appeared in the wake when the latter died.
Because of loneliness, said Diane, Robert went out of the funeral parlor and had a drink. In a motorbike, he went back until he figured in an accident along the highway of Lopez, in front of a certain Apuada Store, and died instantly.
Raquel then decided that her mom and brother would be together in one wake at the Canizares.
Robert’s wake was initially held in a mortuary of St. Peter Chapels because according to Diane, the family gave her its memorial plan.
Aling Tess and Robert, said Ramos-Abrigo, were brought by Raquel to Lucena City for cremation.
What tragic lives.
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