# Howlin' Dave

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{{Short description|Filipino radio disc jockey (1955–2008)}}
{{Infobox person
|name        = Dante David
|image       = 
|caption     = 
|birth_date  = {{Birth date|1955|7|16}}
|birth_place =  [Pasay](/source/Pasay), [Philippines](/source/Philippines)
|death_date  = {{death date and age|2008|5|26|1955|7|16}}
|death_place = [Quezon City](/source/Quezon_City), [Philippines](/source/Philippines)
|other_names = Howlin' Dave
|known_for   = 
|occupation  = [radio disc jockey](/source/Radio_personality)
}}
'''Dante David''' (July 16, 1955 – May 26, 2008) was a [Filipino](/source/Philippines) [radio disc jockey](/source/Radio_personality). Better known by his stage name '''Howlin' Dave''', he is credited with introducing Filipino radio listeners to [Pinoy (Filipino) rock music](/source/Pinoy_rock)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=jojoRobles_may30_2008|title=RIP, Howlin’ Dave|last=Robles|first=Jojo|date=2008-05-30|publisher=[Manila Standard](/source/Manila_Standard)|accessdate=2008-05-31}}</ref> in the early 1970s, and to [new wave](/source/New_wave_music) and [punk rock](/source/punk_rock) in the 1980s.<ref name=mt>{{cite news |title=A Cry for Howlin' Dave |author=Rome Jorge |url=http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/may/27/yehey/life/20080527lif2.html |publisher=Manila Times |date=2008-05-27 |accessdate=2008-05-28 }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

Howlin' Dave grew up in [Pasay](/source/Pasay) and dropped out of high school.<ref name=pdi1>{{cite news|author=Eric Caruncho |title=The Last of the Singing Cowboys |url=http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view_article.php?article_id=52732 |publisher=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=2007-03-04 |accessdate=2008-05-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529160837/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view_article.php?article_id=52732 |archivedate=2008-05-29 }}</ref> While enrolled in a Fine Arts course at the [Philippine Women's University](/source/Philippine_Women's_University), he  was hired as a radio announcer on [DZRJ-AM](/source/DZRJ-AM) in 1974.<ref name=pdi1/> He adopted the name "Howlin' Dave" after the American blues singer [Howlin' Wolf](/source/Howlin'_Wolf).<ref name=pdi1/> He soon became the host of ''Pinoy Rock and Rhythm'', a weekend thirty-minute radio program that featured the then-nascent [Pinoy rock](/source/Pinoy_rock) music. The program was credited with popularizing such Filipino rock acts as the [Juan Dela Cruz Band](/source/Juan_Dela_Cruz_Band), [Asin](/source/Asin_(band)) and the singer [Sampaguita](/source/Sampaguita_(singer)).<ref name=mt/> Howlin' Dave himself became known for his trademark mangled grammar and syntax, his atypical on-air use of the [Tagalog language](/source/Tagalog_language), and for his passionate and excitable delivery in his big booming voice.<ref name=pdi1/><ref name=pdi2/>  The drummer [Pepe Smith](/source/Pepe_Smith) called him "the best rock DJ the Philippines ever had.”<ref name=pdi2>{{cite news |author=Pocholo Concepcion |title=Howlin' Dave, Filipino rock icon, dies at 52 |url=http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080526-138981/Howlin-Dave-Filipino-rock-icon-dies-at-52 |publisher=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=2008-05-26 |accessdate=2008-05-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529044159/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080526-138981/Howlin-Dave-Filipino-rock-icon-dies-at-52 |archivedate=2008-05-29 }}</ref>

Howlin' Dave was also credited with introducing Filipino radio listeners to punk rock and new wave music beginning in the late 1970s, through his program ''New Wave Nights''.<ref name=mt/><ref name=pdi1/> His choice to promote punk music was controversial among his fellow deejays and with his station, but his program developed a following, with spikey-haired teens soon showing up at the radio station, drinking gin and breaking bottles.<ref name=pdi1/> Between 1980 and 1985, Howlin' Dave hosted the annual 'Brave New World' punk concert, which he closed with his take on [Sid Vicious](/source/Sid_Vicious)'s version of "[My Way](/source/My_Way)".<ref name=pdi1/>

In the late 1980s, Howlin' Dave was diagnosed with a [brain tumor](/source/brain_tumor), as well as several other health problems that left him house-bound for several years. In his later years, he hosted radio programs with DZRJ, [ROCK 990](/source/DWRT-AM), and [NU 107](/source/NU_107). In 2001, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the [NU Rock Awards](/source/NU_Rock_Awards). He died in May 2008, two days after collapsing at home following a [stroke](/source/stroke).<ref name=pdi2/>

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