Archive for 2009
Friday, August 7th, 2009
by Jojo P. Panaligan
Warner Music recording artist Sitti will play the role of a sexually abused woman in a theatrical production to be staged end of this year.
The Philippines’ Queen of Bossa Nova has accepted the offbeat role in a bid to have a solid acting background in her resume.
Sitti had previously appeared in ABS-CBN TV shows, “Your Song” and “Isabella.”
“I have so many emotions that my genre of music just cannot give vent to,” she told Manila Bulletin Online and other members of the press at a recent interview. “I, too, feel fear, anger, doubt and other things.”
Still, she tries to vary her moves. In her just-released fourth album, “Contagious,” Sitti remade songs by artists few would think she’d take on. These include Annie Lennox (“No More I Love You’s”), Culture Club (“Do You Really want To Hurt Me”), Sarah McLachlan (“Adia”), Hall & Oates (“One On One”) and Mike Francis (“Let Me In”).
The only original song in “Contagious” is titled “Is This Love,” written by Andrew Fromm of Christian Bautista’s “The Way You Look At Me”-fame.
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
by NRJ Ramos
Local Bossa Nova Princess Sitti is out to reinvent herself as a theater actress.
At the launch of her latest CD “Contagious” under Warner Music Philippines in Red Box Trinoma last week, Sitti revealed that she is already working on a musical but that she can’t give details as yet.
“Management told me not to divulge so much as of now but I’m very excited about it,” said she.
Sitti added that she had long wanted to involve herself in theater. She named roles she dreamt of playing: Maria in ‘West Side Story’ and Kim in ‘Miss Saigon.’”
Sitti’s most recent acting job was in the primetime ABS-CBN soap opera, “Ysabella.” She sees acting as a welcome respite because she sometimes feel the need “to do something else.”
That would have to wait as far as her music goes. Like in previous albums, “Contagious” is comprised mostly by bossa nova renditions of well-loved tunes including Sade’s “Your Love is King”, Sarah Mclachlan’s “Adia” and Annie Lennox’s “No More I Love You’s.”
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
by Mark Angelo Ching
A bubbly Sitti Navarro met the entertainment press last Friday, July 31, in Red Box in Trinoma to promote Contagious, her fourth studio album under Warner Music. In the album, the country’s “Queen of Bossa Nova” redefined contemporary hits from Annie Lennox, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sade, Sarah McLachlan, and other singers, to fit her unique singing style.
Although Sitti already has three successful bossa nova albums under her belt since her 2006 debut Cafe Bossa, My Bossa Nova, and Ngayong Pasko; she claimed that she still feels constrained by her genre.
“Medyo nali-limit din ako sa genre… I was talking to Warner na marami pa kong gustong ilabas na limited by the arrangement, or with the treatment of the song,” Sitti explained.
But the singer said she cannot verge out of the singing style in her current recording projects because bossa nova has its own limitations.
“Kasi siyempre yung attack on bossa, it should always be light and flowing… Hindi ka puwedeng gumawa ng kung anu-ano sa bossa, kasi it will destroy the essence she said.
To cope with the limitations, however, Sitti said she injects new embellishments or arrangements to her songs. She also performs different musical styles in her various gigs.
“On our gigs, may mga bossa din but not so much. Nagla-Latin din kami most of the time and some jazz. And pag tinopak din kami, nagpa-pop din kami,” Sitti said.
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
By Phillip Cu-Unjieng
Warner Music has two new releases that come from opposite ends of the music spectrum. The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Soundtrack reads like a who’s who of the current rock music scene, while their new Sitti CD finds her in an ’80s and ’90s frame of mind, giving hits from that era her signature samba/bossa spin.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Soundtrack (Warner Music) —This is one of those compilations that either has us raving and rocking, or has us just thinking “quick fix” but just a hint of each band’s output. Look at the list of bands with tracks on this soundtrack — Linkin Park, Green Day, All American Rejects, the Fray, Staind, Hoobastank, Nickelback, Cheap Trick and Taking Back Sunday — and one really can’t ask for more in terms of quality bands and music. And the funny part is, my favorite tracks here are Cavo’s Let It Go and the funky cover of Talking Heads’ Burning Down the House by The Used. So if you hate buying CDs, of the mind that most of them have two, three good tracks, and the rest are filler, then this could be the wise buy for you.
Contagious Sitti (Warner Music) — As can be expected, there are the Jobim tracks that stamp authenticity to the samba muse that has dominated Sitti’s musical agenda, but what makes this new CD unique, are the covers that are given the Sitti treatment. Sade’s Your Love Is King, Sarah MacLachlan’s Adia, Smokey Robinson’s La La Means I Love You, Annie Lennox’s No More I Love You’s, Mike Francis’ Let Me In, One On One from Hall & Oates, a Basia medley and Culture Club’s Do You Really Want to Hurt Me. Really liked the Adia and One on One, and those work better than say, the Annie Lennox, which is a gut-wrenching tune now made too languid. But by and large, this is another feather in the cap for Sitti; smart selections, solid rearranging, and her voice and the formula still works.
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