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Mabuhay Music celebrates 40 years of world-wide success with 165 internationally published versions of Songwriters: Gwen Guthrie† and Haras Fyre Graf von Growlocks (pka Patrick Grant)

Headquarters: New York City Haras Fyre: CAE/IPI#:457631244 BMI member since 1973	Headquarters: Manila Haras Fyre: associate member (BMI)	Headquarters: Zürich Haras Fyre: associate member (BMI)

Haras Fyre Graf von Growlocks enjoys his 40^th year as a songwriter & publisher with the USA's Broadcast Music Incorporated. Through BMI's international agreements, the Graf is connected to every Performing Rights Society (PRO) in the world. However, he is especially proud of being an associate member of FILSCAP (PRO in the Republic of the Philippines which Haras calls "Melody Heaven") and SUISA (PRO in Haras' home country of Switzerland). Clicking on the logos above will open new windows to each respective website.

Occasionally, people ask Haras, "Did you really write "This Time I'll Be Sweeter???" Well, somebody had to write it... Please look at song number 53 after you click on this  BMI logo. If you prefer, you may independently go to www.bmi.com and search for 'songwriter/composer' 'Fyre Haras' to see "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" on Haras' partial list of published songs. Afterwards, please click on the photo of Angela Bofill's CD to see more CDs with Haras Fyre songs on them. By the way: Angela's version was NOT the first; it was the fifth recording of "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" but is the closest to Haras Fyre's original demo version so far.

Haras Fyre Graf von Growlocks
2013 Why "Mabuhay?" The word 'Mabuhay' greatly conveys that which is emotional, optimistic, caring, humble and friendly. In friendliness there is sharing. Shared pleasure lives longer; we always see friends & family joyfully repeating the same stories of shared pleasures for years. If that shared pleasure is music, then: Long Live Music! Mabuhay Music!

Carlos Santana, Sharon Cuneta, Ben E. King, Rachel Ann Go, Roberta Flack, Angela Bofill, Deniece Williams, Kyla, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Macy Gray, Gary Glitter, Sister Sledge, Will Downing and more of Haras Fyre's songs on Billboard's International Top 100 Charts shows Haras has indeed done some sharing.

The Graf's music also appears internationally on television and on cinema soundtracks for productions such as "Addams Family," "Notorious B.I.G.," Sharon Cuneta's "Friends," "Very Bad Things" as well as in advertising commercials for companies such as America's "AT&T," "Amtrak" and more. Click on the blue square to see a Trade Fair Handout Recording of the first advertising jingle written by Haras pka Patrick Grant, which he wrote with (then girlfriend) Gwen Guthrie^†  for America's "AT&T."

The AT&T touring & recording band consisted of:

• Gwen Guthrie, vocals; (Mick Jagger, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Peter Tosh)
• Jimmie Young, drums; (Frank Sinatra's " Theme from New York New York," Barry Manilow's "Mandy," Engelbert Humperdink's "After the Lovin' ")
• Rudy Stevenson, guitar; (guitarist/songwriter/musical tour director for Nina Simone, "5th [ Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In ] Dimension,")
• Bert DeCoteaux^†, piano; (Motown producer/arranger for Diana Ross, Martha Reeves, Temptations)
• Haras pka Patrick Grant, bass

Playing together with these First-Call A-List musical giants, Haras felt he was living a dream. Haras also regularly played bass in a trio with "Weather Report" studio drummer Herschel Dwellingham together with jazz pianist Nat Adderley, Jr., and with "The Drifters" ("Under the Boardwalk," "Up On The Roof").

As member of "The American Guild of Authors and Composers" (now "Songwriter's Guild of America,") Haras gave songwriting & performance instruction in his office in New York City's "Brill Building"  on Broadway. There he also taught Broadway actors & actresses the critical difference between performing 'in safety up there with fellow actors' vs. 'entertaining all alone with neither stimulus nor security of fellow artists being onstage.' Haras' partners were Marion Ramsey  (of "Police Academy" fame as "Sgt. Hooks") and "Fleming Williams†" (who sang the hit "Rock The Boat" with the "Hues Corporation").

Haras on teaching: No matter how successful an idea may have been in the past, all parties must study to find if the idea is useful in the present. During that moment of re-examination, the teacher and the student are both students. 

Soft Pop, Hard Rock, Theatre Musicals, R&B; The Graf has enjoyed sharing his music around the world as a composer and multi-instrumentalist for 40 years. However, Haras is ultimately hungry to continue learning and believes that to share is to experience & learn anew.

Haras - with his internationally diverse team of writers, entertainers, singers and musicians - welcomes you to join the never-ending thrill found through sharing the offerings of Mabuhay Music. Long live music!