Philippine

Reay is briefly settling back home after a busy period performing to large audiences in Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia.

Her extended family includes immigrants from Korea, Japan and the Philippines.

“I thought it was too good to be true, but I took a chance,” said one, Melanie Habon, whose immigrant parents from the Philippines encouraged her to become a structural engineer.

“Sky Islands” evokes the magical Philippines upper rainforests, where sounds scintillate in a thinned atmosphere that gives gongs new glories, where animals capable of great ascension exclusively live, where the mind is ready for enlightenment.

They also were more likely than others to be killed, particularly in Brazil, the Philippines and Mexico.