12 Facts About Freddie Santos

Freddie Santos was a Filipino film director, television director, theater director, and concert director.

Freddie Santos was mentored in voice by his uncle, the baritone Aurelio Santos Estanislao, who at that time headed the Voice Department at the College of Music, University of the Philippines.

Freddie Santos was professionally involved, either as actor, coach, assistant director or director in more than a hundred stage plays and musicales.

Freddie Santos nurtured his skill in stage lighting, make-up and choreography.

All told, Freddie Santos has been involved with the performing arts for over forty years now, winning thrice the Aliw Award for Best Stage Director in the country, the first to win the award in both categories of Stage Musical and Concert.

Freddie Santos has written and staged the musical plays First Name, Joseph the Dreamer, So David.

Freddie Santos's directing career gave him a chance to direct concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall and at Manhattan Town Hall.

Freddie Santos has directed over two dozen reunion homecomings of the country's most prestigious schools like La Salle, St Scholastica's, Assumption, and St Therese's College, Manila.

Freddie Santos has done quite a number of spoken word recordings, several of which serve as vocal guide for the permanent exhibits of the Ayala Museum in Makati, and the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite.

Freddie Santos's recordings were aired as well in several countries on European Radio.

Freddie Santos was regularly viewed on GMA-7 as one of the judges in the high-rating Starstruck and Celebrity Duets.

In line with this, he took charge of Manila Hotel's CSR campaign involving the clean-up of Manila Bay, and for which Freddie Santos directed nearly 3 dozen short videos in 2019 featuring local art and showbiz personalities.