Posts Tagged ‘Warner Music Philippines’
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.
Bossa nova singer Sitti feels limited by her musical genre
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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