Rivermaya once again gave an awesome performance, representing the Phlippines at this years' Asia Song Festival in Seoul, Korea, October 4, 2008. The event was held at the world famous Seoul World Cup Stadium. Rivermaya is also one of the recipients of the prestigious Best Asian Artist Award given to 13 artists from different Asian countries who also performed that evening. Other awardees were: TVXQ (Korea), Seung-hun Shin (Korea), SS501 (Korea), Girls' Generation (Korea), W-inds (Japan), Anna Tsuchiya (Japan), Anson Hu (China), Fahrenheit (Taiwan), Karen Mok (Hong Kong), ICE (Thailand), Ho Quynh Huong (Vietnam) and Agnes Monica (Indonesia). The Best New Asian Artists Awards were given to SHINee (Korea) and Berryz Kobo (Japan). The nights' Special Award was given to Korea's Rose Jang. Former Philippine representatives in this annual event were Kitchie Nadal in 2006, and Barbie Almalbis in 2007.

The band performed two songs, starting off with a new song from the "Buhay" album entitled "Nice To", followed by their Asian hit single "You'll Be Safe Here".



Rivermaya would like to express their sincerest gratitude to KOFICE, all the sponsors, and all the people who worked so hard to make the Asia Song Festival 2008 a monumental success.

Special thanks to Cedrick Lee and Sun Mee Shin and everyone at KOFICE, Riah Lim, Calvin Wong of Warner Asia Pacific and Jim Baluyut of Warner Music Philippines.

Rivermaya's latest album "Buhay" (Life) is available for purchase and shipping to Korea through www.divisoria.com.

(in the smallest photo: rivermaya with Cedrick Lee, Manager of the KOFICE Exchange Program)

(for more info visit: http://asf.kofice.or.kr/l_eng/03_per/index.php)

Thank you to all who supported our single 'Sleep', stay tuned for our next single which will be out very very soon.

God Bless!

*photos by Al Guerrero & Joon Martinez