"White Christmas In Manila" is a compilation of videos from Libera's recent Manila tour. It includes their live performance at ASAP Rocks, Meet & Greet at SM North Edsa - The Block, and their Christmas concert at thePICC.
All of the materials used are personal videos and photos except
The music video was posted more than 4 years ago, and the song is even older than that.
The thing is, all of the boys that you will see on this video are not members of Libera anymore; either they quit or they became too old for the choir's 16-years-old age limit. This has been the protocol of Libera that even the fans had learned to accept: that all Libera members are not permanent; all of us aren't Peter Pan who can stay forever young. Even if the choir make use of the lower voice from the older members, they still limit the choristers' ages up to the maximum age of 16.
Tom Cully, Edward Day,Micheal Horncastle -- Who doesn't know them? They are just some of the most known soloists of Libera who gave us songs which still stayed on the hearts of the fans up to now. So where are they? Some of them just stop going on tour. After seeing them performing on a concert, their absence to the next concerts are just alarming: fans started to be alarmed and this is the most frustrating feeling of all, especially when a chorister is almost at the so-called 'last year.'
It's very saddening to see your favorite Libera chorister left the choir. You came to love them and be inspired with their music through the years that they have spent singing in the choir. It's like meeting a relative, and suddenly, they'll be gone. Boys of 7-years-old joins the choir in exchange of those who left. That's just the cycle: it repeats and repeats and it never stops. That's why Libera is always there since they started at around 1992.
The 2011 batch of Libera is quite different. They are bringing the biggest number of libera on tour so far. New members started to get the attention of the fans really fast, and that's just as good, since names like Liam Connery, Josh Madine, Alex Legget, Sam Legget and the other old members are already in their last years. Not to say that they should leave the choir as soon as they reach the age of 17, but that's just how it is and we have to accept that old members will leave one day and new little angels will join the choir.
Just recently, James Mordaunt and Freddie Ingles left the choir. that was a very alarming news to the libera community since both of them are still very young and they just joined Libera for their 'Peace' album which came out just last year. they became the favorite of most of the fans since they are very good soloists, and the impact of the news are just intense. That only implies that age doesn't matter. Personal reasons could also be cause of them leaving the choir. However, newbies such as Eoghan, Barney, Jakub, and many more young boys joined the 2011 batch. they are very good soloists too!
The old ones left and new ones came. that is the libera cycle that will happen again and again with no end. That means, that as long as there are fans supporting the angel voices, libera will always be there to give us the music that we enjoyed.
The song 'Lullabye' form the repackaged 'Peace' album is very metaphoric. The lyrics are implying to us a lot of theings, that Libera will forever be with us, even if some of the members are already gone. It's the perfect exit for Josh since it was his last solo that made it as a music video: Josh talking to the younger boys as if telling to them the lullabye of eternity.
A line form the song is "Someday we'll all be gone but Lullabyes go on and on; they never die that's how you and i will be." LIBERA'S MUSIC WILL NEVER DIE.
