Joseph William Feliciano Smith (born December 25, 1947) is a Filipino singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist. More commonly known alternately as Joey Smith and Pepe Smith, he is an icon of original Filipino rock music or "Pinoy rock".
Smith was born on December 25, 1947 to Edgar William Smith, a U.S. serviceman, and Conchita Feliciano, a native of Angeles, Pampanga, where Clark Air Force base was then located. Smith said his father told him he had served as a naval aviator in World War Two, flying the Grumman F8F Bearcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. Smith spent his first years in Angeles, often visiting the airbase, where his father would take him to the flightline to watch the U.S. military aircraft take off and land. To this day, he has a fascination with, and collects model airplanes.
When he was eight years old, his parents separated, and his mother died from hepatitis. Smith and his younger brother Raymond went to live with their grandmother, Concordia Go, in Kamuning, Quezon City.[2]
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