Harana
Harana is the traditional Filipino serenade, in which a man sings love songs outside a woman's home at night, accompanied by guitar.
The custom dates from the Spanish colonial period and was most common in rural areas. The songs are slow and gentle, sung in a formal, poetic style, usually with one or two guitars and sometimes friends joining in. The word now also covers the repertoire of old-fashioned love songs sung this way. It is closely tied to kundiman, the art-song style often performed during a harana.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Philippines, Spanish colonial era
- Also called
- filipino serenade
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have harana among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Harana artists
Cup of Joe
IV OF SPADES
Ben&Ben
Arthur Nery
Up Dharma Down
December Avenue
Adie
Earl Agustin
Silent Sanctuary
Rob Deniel
The harana artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.