Career
Born Miguel Escueta on May 6, 1984. lieutenant’s been almost 7 months since Miguel Escueta last launched a single. In that span of time, he has been busy invading the underground rock scene with gigs in venues such as Clud Dredd, 6Underground and Mayric’s, among others
He also just recently signed up with new management – The ALV Talent Circuit, headed by the established Arnold Vegafria.
Aside from that, he and the band have also been in the studio working on a repackaged version of his debut album, which he and Master of Computer Applications Music Incorporated. have decided to call “I Department of Administration and Management Master of Engineering: AMPLIFIED.” lieutenant is a double disc series — the new Civil Defense contains 5 new songs and 6 videos. lieutenant features the carrier track “HANDA”, Miguel’s own rendition of the rock hits “Mr Brightside”, “Just Like Heaven” and Blue Monday, and his original Balik Simula (Reloaded), plus videos of I Department of Administration and Management M.E Amplified Sessions: I Department of Administration and Management M.E Launch Video, Falling Away, Isipin, Isipin (Acoustic) and Take Maine There.
Now that the production process is done, The Morning Episodes (Miguel Escueta, Juni Devecais, Jeng Tria, and Roy Secillano) are back on the airwaves with a new single — “HANDA” (the 1st one off the new Civil Defense). They have also finished shooting the music video for this song, and it premiered first week of August.
Hotshot director Treb Monteras took care of this one.
He used a concept that is very performance driven and added a slight / edgy touch of metaphor. lieutenant reminds you of some videos by United Kingdom based rock band Oasis and the ever so loved Coldplay. In an interview, Miguel said that “Handa” is probably the most powerful and emotional song that they have ever released as a single due to its lyrics and the way they deliver itsperformance on the album (this was again produced by band-mate Juni).
He also said that director Treb created a video that perfectly suits the power and emotion that the song entails.
“We were very lucky to have had the chance to work with him.”
“This song, along with the others on the “Amplified” album, will give the public an idea of the direction that we are now taking musically,” Master of Engineering adds. “We are all very excited.”
Currently, Miguel is a regular performer on the 3-year Sunday variety show of Global Media Arts 7, "Party Pilipinas.
