ISHA
February 16, 2006Awit Awards nominee singer/songwriter and pianist ISHA releases her first all OPM CD-lite under Candid’s sublabel ISLA. The ‘piano empress’ follow-up from her debut album ‘Time & Again’.
Her initial foray into the local music circuit was through her heart wrenching original ‘I Don’t Love You Anymore’ which served as a theme song for the movie ‘Duda’. The song was the only local track in the sequel to the highly successful CD compilation which included other foreign artists like Brian McKnight, Jewel, and Gabrielle.
Her musical career takes a full swing when she were signed up under the indie label Candid Records in 2004 together with other local artists including balladeer Enrique Marcos and jazz princess Mishka Adams. Off from her album ‘Time & Again’, her laid-back rendition of ‘Cherish’ popularized by Madonna in the 80’s has firmed up her position as the country’s ‘new wave baby’ as it zoomed to the third spot barely a few weeks of release and stayed on the top ten pop charts for four consecutive weeks. Isha has undoubtedly breakthrough the local music scene with her silky, low tones, melancholic reinterpretations and impeccable poetic originals.
Her vocal styling is often compared to foreign heavyweights including Tori Amos which the singer herself adores. ‘I love Tori Amos, and I just cant help myself in simply adoring her as a person and as a musician/singer,’ the singer confess. Isha’s originals depict literary sense and a knack for storytelling as she weaves every poignant tales to a marvelous masterpiece.
On her CD-lite, ISHA reveals the woman behind singer/songwriter as she unravels the mysteries of the ‘unconventional chanteuse’. The carrier single ‘Salisi’ was used as a theme song for the CineManila entry of Ellen Ramos and Paolo Villaluna ‘Ilusyon’ starring award winning actor Yul Servo and newcomer Jaycee Parker. The title-track folk original ‘Katakataka’ is the songwriter/singer ode to her loving husband, ace director Robert Quebral while the heartbreaking ‘At sabi Mo’ captivates the painful emotional tapestry of relationships gone bad. ‘Sayaw sa Hangin’ reveals the songwriters thirst for love and romance as profoundly expressed through its lyrics ‘alam ko nang sikreto sa pag-ibig natin – mabuhay nang wala tayong hihintayin’ (the secret behind our love for one another – to live without expecting anything).
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HOIST ISHA,
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Christine Bala
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san ang hindot na mp3!!!!!
Posted by mike at October 8, 2006, 2:10 pm