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Allan Pineda Lindo (born November 28, 1974) better known as apl.de.ap (pronounced "Apple Dee Ap"), is a Filipino-born American rapper, record producer, and singer best known as a member of the Grammy Award-winning group The Black Eyed Peas.
Early life
Pineda was born in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. His African American father, an airman stationed at Clark Air Base, left the family shortly after his birth; his Filipino mother, Cristina Pineda, raised him and his six younger siblings as a single mother. As a child, Pineda would make an hour-long jeepney trip to and from his school, and helped his family subsist by farming sweet potatoes, corn, sugar cane and rice. The Pearl S. Buck Foundation, an organization that finds healthier living environments for young abandoned or orphaned American children, matched him with a sponsor named Joe Ben Hudgens, a lawyer, through a dollar-a-day program. He initially came to the
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