Posts Tagged ‘Contagious’
Is This Love MV
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Sitti tries theater
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
by Boy Abunda
When Sitti emerged in the local music scene a few years back, some were aghast with her audacity to barge into the local pop audience with her musical genre.
And when she succeeded in carving a niche for herself, many called her flash in the pan.
Nowadays, no one can contest that she is Philippines’ Queen of Bossa Nova. With three successful bossa nova albums — Café Bossa, My Bossa Nova and Ngayong Pasko — under her belt, and another just-released (titled Contagious, still under Warner Music Philippines), Sitti has grown not only as an artist but as a young woman.
In Contagious, Sitti demonstrates that almost any song can be turned into bossa nova numbers. The 15 remakes in the CD span musical genres that an artist of lesser mettle would have a hard time stamping his signature on.
The artists whose works she does versions of are those even her most avid fans would not expect: Annie Lennox (No More I Love You’s), Sarah McLachlan (Adia) and Sade (Your Love Is King), just to name a few.
She even has an original, titled Is This Love which was co-written by Andrew Fromm of Christian Bautista’s The Way You Look At Me — fame.
Sitti to play role of an abused woman
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.
Sitti to try theater
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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