o His real name is Lourd Ernest Hanapol De Veyra.
o He was born on February 11, 1975.
o His father was a retired policeman who is
part of the first batch of rookie cops
that is part of the Western Police
District, with Alfredo Lim as their Ground Commander.
o While, his mother is a pianist by
profession and dietician by training, was actually stricter
than his father.
o Mike Hanopol of the Juan de la Cruz band is his
uncle.
Musical Career:
§ Al Dimalanta the band’s leader and founder,
making Dead Ends a four – piece band.
Ø He became one of band’s guitarists in 1994
Ø Dead Ends disbanded in 1996 (because of Jay
Dimalanta’s passing)
§ After Dead Ends disbanded, Radioactive
Sago Project formed accidentally.
Ø
Lourd was
promoting his first book, and instead of the usual reading, he got a
bassist, trumpet player, and drummer to accompany him as back up for a spoken
word performance. (“From three nagging nine na kami.”)
Ø He became famous for being the vocalist of Manila – based jazz rock band.
Education:
ü He studies grade school at Quirino Elementary School.
ü Colegio
de San Juan de Letranfor high school.
o 4 years being part of the table tennis
varsity team, where they were consistency NCCA champions.
ü Graduated at University of Santo Tomas with Bachelor
of Arts in Jurnalism.
§ At age 17 he first tried drugs, it is because
of his friends and abysmal curiosity.
§ He started his Master’s in Creative
Writing twice (once in UP, the other time in UST) but only
finished two semesters.
§
His interest in
writing started only on his second year in college.
§ His biggest influences are Dr. Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Teddy Boy Locsin,
and Nick Joaquin.
§ His literary influences are Allen Ginsberg,
and Jack Kerouac.
§ Gain his fellowship at UP National Writers
Workshop.
§ He idolized the novelist Kurt Vonnegut.
§ He applied as OJT for Today.
§
He left Today
in 2001 when he won a writing grant from the NCCA worth Php 250,000.
§
His very first
article was a piece for the lifestyle section on Bea Lucero and the World
Youth Day in 1995.
§ He was a newspaper scholar in his last
two years in college at UST, supposedly to work with the paper after
graduation.
§ It took 1 hour for him to write his
speech for the UP Commencement exercises, where he coined the term “GMG”
(Google mo, G***) for this generation.
§ He point out inefficiency is one of
the biggest problems of a lot of young people today.
After College:
v Lourd de Veyra does a great job of expressing
himself and by extension; his opinions, curses and all are shared
by a lot of people who follow him on TV, online and printmedia.
v He was one of the hosts
of Sapul sa
Singko and
in Aksyon on TV5, in Tayuan Mo at Panindigan and Wasak on AksyonTV. He was the main host of the
action documentary show Lupet
until its relaunch in early
2011.
v In 2013, de Veyra hosted another show for TV5 called History with Lourd.
v 7 years of being copy editor for Metro Society Magazine.
v He is not afraid to express his
opinion about almost all imaginable issues this side of the planet.
v Lourd is also known for his criticism and comments against some of
the country’s most prominent figures.
v De Veyra is simply a man who thinks critically and knows the value of
wit.
v His bestselling novel Super Panalo Sounds! was10 years in the making.
v It was product of what he calls “bizarre”
ritual where he spends New Year’s Eve writing.
v It is about “How high and how low you can go when you’re rocking and rolling?”
was published.
v He has thrice
been a recipient of a Don Carlos Palanca
Memorial Award for Literature - A Third
prize in essay (English
division) in 1999, a second prize in
the same category in 2003; and a first
prize in teleplay (Filipino division) in 2004.
v It was around 2006 when he started to buy
and care for ferns, flowers, and fruit bearings plants.
He says that one plant is not expensive, but when you collect them, it becomes
expensive.
v His garden was beautifully flourishing
when unexpectedly, Typhoon Ondoy hit in 2009. (“Yung pinalaki ko at inalagaan kong Traveller’s Palm, kinailangan kong apakan at gawing Bridge to get
from one end of the yard to the garage.”)
v He currently has six dogs: Buddy (the
azkals), Petra, Lylodie, Tekla, Brownie (the Lhasa Apsos) and Billy
Boy (the blind Shi Tzu).
Works:
Poems:
« Subterranean Thought Parade
« Shadowboxing in Headphones
« Insectissimo
Collection Of
Essays:
« The Best of This is A Crazy Planets
« This is A Crazy Planets
ü A Letter to my Unborn Grandchild
ü Troll man ay Tao rin
ü Sa Pekikulang Pinoy
ü Life Before, During, and Beyond the 15 years
of FHM
ü Bakit nga ba laging nakaupo si Mabini?
ü A Big Sleep
ü Sermon sa mga Fashyown
ü Four Hundred and Twenty Five Flying
Elephants: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, RIP
ü TOP 10 IT Boys
ü Umasal lamang ng ayon sa ganda
ü Ang Tunay na LALAKE, Walang ABS
ü Sa ikaaayos ng Mundo, Wag Mag-sando!
Compilation
of his speeches:
« Lourd de Veyra's Little Book of Speeches
« Espiritu
Story:
« Culture of Excellence, Culture of Conscience
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