Joanna Ampil Tries Her Hand at Love
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West End star Joanna Ampil counts performing as Maria in West Side Story for a Philippine audience as one of her “10 most unforgettable moments as a performer.” Now, the talented Filipina is home to promote her first album with Sony Music Philippines entitled Try Love
It is a collaboration of mostly ballads from the past. Songs I used to listen to when I was growing up in Manila. Some of them chosen by me and others by people who know my voice pretty well. It is a revival of pop songs mostly from the ’70s and ’80s. But we rearranged everything. Vic Valenciano of Sony Music really did a great job of finding out which songs would work for me. These include “Healing,” “If I Believed,” “Lately,” the Stevie Wonder hit, some Carpenters songs, too, and one Tagalog piece by Dingdong Avanzado. Girlie Rodis, my manager, insisted that I include one Tagalog song, “Maghihintay Sa ’Yo.” That is very special to me because in London, every time they ask me to sing a Tagalog song, that’s the one I sing. I also have “Try Love,” the title track, a piece by Julie Gold, who composed “From A Distance.”
I have to thank Ariel Rivera, too, for agreeing to do a duet of “The Last time I Felt Like This” with me. His rendition was excellent.
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer
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