Hospicio Dulnuan was born in the Ifugao Province of the Cordillera Mountains in the northern Philippines. For 45 years, he has performed the traditional Cordillera instruments including sagay-po (bamboo pan flute), kolasing/kulitong (nose flute), gangha (set of 4 and 6 brass gongs), solibao (elongated drum), libbit (short drum), tambi (zither), patang-gok (stringed bamboo zither), ungngiyong (bamboo jaw harp), takik (metal percussion bars), patang-ug (bamboo bladed percussion tube), and others. He is also a practitioner of Ifugao oral and dance traditions. Dulnuan moved to Los Angeles in 1980, and co-founded the BIBAK Dance Ensemble in 1989.