Max Surban

馬克斯·瑟班

Max Surban is known as one of the best novelty singers of the Philippines and the King of Visayan song. He was born and raised in Cebu City in the southern part of the Philippines with one brother and four sisters. He finished high school at the “University of the Southern Philippines ” and then took a machinery course at “Cebu College of Arts and Trade”. After that, Max worked for six months at the Visayan Electric Company.maxi Since singing was his first love, he started to enter singing contests until eventually it became his career. At first, he sang ballad songs in big night spots in Cebu in the 1960's until he decided to move to Manila. He sang at the Olongapo U.S. Naval base for one year and then at the “Seafront” in the U.S. Embassy Family Club for two years. He also joined a band as a vocalist and travelled to Vietnam and Japan.