BOSSA nova diva Sitti will have a Christmas concert titled “An Evening in December with Sitti” tonigth at 8 , at the Music Museum. Joining her on stage are Christian Bautista, Richard Poon, and Hiyas ng Pilipinas Children’s Choir.
Sitti is now a Backroom artist. She has successfully reintroduced bossa nova as a new kind of music to a modern era of listeners. Her string of best-selling albums like “Café Bossa,” “Sitti Live!,” “Sitti In the Mix,” and “My Bossa Nova” has captured the Filipinos’ interest in the bossa nova genre. Her “Café Bossa” led to the surge of bossa nova CDs and bossa-inspired OPM songs.
She has recently released her new album titled “Ngayong Pasko” under Warner Music Philippines. The album contains songs like “All I Want for Christmas,” “Ngayong Pasko,” “Santa Baby,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Someday At Christmas,” “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” “Grown-Up Christmas List,” “The Christmas Song,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus.” As a special bonus track, Sitti and Christian Bautista sing a duet “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Sitti also sings “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” together with the Las Piñas Boys Choir.
The doomsday “prophets” are wrong — so far. Bossa nova has not gone the way bell-bottom and cargo pants have: to the attic to be recycled another day. The genre has endured, and its queen, Sitti still reigns supreme. In fact, 2008 is turning out to be another banner year.
