Family and Early Career
Magalona was the eighth of the nine children of actors Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran, popular film stars of the 1940s and 1950s. His grandfather, Enrique B. Magalona, was a politician and served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1946 to 1949 and from 1949 to 1955. He graduated from High School at the Don Bosco Technical College in Mandaluyong City from 1978 to 1981 and studied at the San Beda College in Manila from 1981-1984.
Magalona started out as a breakdancer in the 1980s. He was cast in several Filipino movies including Bagets 2. He was the resident DJ/rapper in the IBC-13 variety show Loveli'Ness.
Magalona was introduced by co-actor Richard Gomez to Pia Arroyo at a party in a disco owned by film director Marilou Diaz -Abaya and her husband, cinematographer, Manolo Abaya Ishmael Bernal, and the couple got married in 1985. The couple had eight children, two of whom were Magalona's stepchildren: Unna, Nicolo, Clara, and television personalities Maxene (Max), Francis Jr. (Frank), Saab, Elmo and Arkin Magalona, who entered showbiz to follow their father's footsteps.
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