May kumpiyansa ang kapuwa mang-aawit.

Here, may means has or there is/there exists. In this sentence, may kumpiyansa literally means has confidence.

So:

• May kumpiyansa ang kapuwa mang-aawit.
• Literally: The fellow singer has confidence.
• More natural English: The fellow singer is confident.

In Filipino, may + noun is a very common way to express possession or a quality someone has.

Both are correct.

• May kumpiyansa ang kapuwa mang-aawit.
• Ang kapuwa mang-aawit ay may kumpiyansa.

The first one is a common predicate-first structure, which is very natural in Filipino.
The second one puts the topic first and uses ay, which can sound more formal, deliberate, or textbook-like.

So the original sentence is normal and natural. Filipino often puts the descriptive part first.

Ang is a marker that identifies the topic/focus noun phrase of the sentence.

In this sentence:

• ang kapuwa mang-aawit = the fellow singer

Even though ang is sometimes translated as the, it is not exactly the same as the English article the. Its real job is grammatical: it marks the noun phrase that the sentence is about.

So in:

• May kumpiyansa ang kapuwa mang-aawit.

the phrase ang kapuwa mang-aawit is the topic: the fellow singer.

Kapuwa means fellow, another person of the same kind, or co- in this context.

So:

• kapuwa mang-aawit = fellow singer / co-singer

It describes someone who belongs to the same group or role as another person.

Also, you will very often see the spelling kapwa instead of kapuwa. That is the more common modern spelling. They refer to the same word.

Because kapuwa/kapwa usually carries the idea of someone in the same category as another person, not just any random additional person.

So kapuwa mang-aawit suggests:

• a fellow singer
• another singer like oneself
• someone who shares the same role

It is more relational than simply saying another singer.

Mang-aawit means singer.

It comes from a noun-forming pattern related to doing or being associated with the root awit (song). The word is written with a hyphen because of standard Filipino spelling rules when a prefix is attached to a vowel-initial base in this kind of formation.

So:

• awit = song
• mang-aawit = singer

The hyphen helps show the structure of the word clearly.

It is a noun here.

In the sentence:

• May kumpiyansa ang kapuwa mang-aawit.

mang-aawit refers to a person: a singer.

It is not saying is singing. If you wanted a verb meaning is singing, you would use a different form, such as umaawit.

Compare:

• mang-aawit = singer
• umaawit = singing / sings

Not literally. Literally, it means has confidence.

But in English, has confidence often becomes is confident, because that sounds more natural.

So:

• may kumpiyansa = literally has confidence
• natural English = is confident

This is a common pattern when translating from Filipino to English.

Kumpiyansa is a borrowed word, ultimately from Spanish confianza.

It is fully normal in modern Filipino and commonly means:

• confidence
• trust
• self-assurance

In this sentence, it most naturally means confidence or self-confidence.

It is most naturally singular:

• ang kapuwa mang-aawit = the fellow singer

There is no plural marker like mga, so the default reading is singular.

If you wanted plural, you would usually say:

• May kumpiyansa ang mga kapuwa mang-aawit.
• The fellow singers are confident.

Yes, but the structure would usually change a little.

The most natural form here is:

• May kumpiyansa ang kapuwa mang-aawit.

You could also say:

• Mayroon ding kumpiyansa ang kapuwa mang-aawit.
• Mayroon siyang kumpiyansa. if the subject were expressed differently

In general, may is very common directly before a noun:

• may pera
• may oras
• may kumpiyansa

So in this sentence, may is the simplest and most natural choice.

Yes, it is grammatical and natural, though the exact word kapuwa/kapwa may sound a bit formal depending on context.

A speaker might also say things like:

• May kumpiyansa ang kapwa ko mang-aawit. = My fellow singer is confident.
• Kumpiyansa ang kapwa mang-aawit ko. in a more casual or context-dependent style

But the given sentence is perfectly understandable and correct.