Soul in Love Meets Dianne Warren Hits

 

My attendance in this event is purely unintentional. I was on my way home after watching Cinderella. I decided to ride the MTR and passed by SM Makati. It was 7:30pm then and I saw the last leg of people signing for the Latest album of Jar-R’s latest album “Soul in Love”. I am not really a Jay-R fan but the selections in the CD are familiar to me and I am wondering how he sang these songs. So what the heck… I bought the CD and I got a free poster. Well it looked like there are a lot of fans for this artist since the show started at 5pm and until 8pm there are still people lined up to get autographs and pictures taken. Unfortunately I was one of them….

 

At first I though he is a snob since prior to this event, I was able to see him in Odyssey Music store at the Gateway. I was going out of the store when I bump into him. I wasn’t my fault since he is on my way out of the said establishment and he is talking to someone else in his cell. He immediately ran and maybe he is looking for someone. I also noticed some fans that were going to attempt to have his pictures taken hear DQ but because of the whole running incident… those fans were not successful. Now here I am again and meeting him one more time… this time in a more cheerful disposition.

 

Of course there are the usual congratulations… yada yada yada… and asked for my name… I said japok… but he spelled jopok… He said “unique name”… I said… “yah”…  I gave the CD and the poster and have my picture taken. Here is the result. After that picture was taken, he looked at it and said that “eksakto ha, galing mo kumuha ha”. I replied… “Thanks”. I then left him with a sincere congratulations and high hopes having more sales on his album. Here are some of my pics:

My view before I get up to meet JayR

Jupiterboi and JayR

I listen to the album when I arrived home and it is not bad at all. I immediately transfer the songs in my IPOD and these songs have been playing all week while I was going to work or going back home. There are 18 track of pure soulful and purely good listening music. His track of Tattooed on my Mind with D’sound is simply indescribable. I suggest buying your own copy and listen to it. Promise you won’t regret it. Here are the tracks of his album:

 

1. One Hundred Ways
2. Just To See Her
3. You Make Me Feel Brand New
4. Love Won’t Make Me Wait
5. Always And Forever
6. After The Love Has Gone
7. No One Else Comes Close
8. Time Will Reveal
9. She’s Out Of My Life
10. Two Occasions
11. Sweet Love
12. What You Won’t Do For Love
13. What’s Going On
14. Ain’t No Sunshine
15. Neither One Of Us
16. Tender Love
17. You Are My Lady
18. Tattooed On My Mind (With D’Sound)

 

Here is the video of Jay-R and D’Sound for Tattooed on my Mind:

 

Another album you should be buying is the new album from Nina where she sings the hits of Dianne Warren. The tracks are too familiar that I can’t simply ignore it plus the album is a double CD (talk about value for your purchase). Here is the cover picture.

 

Nina’s version of these familiar hits simply transcended into a wonderful collection of songs we all came to love. Her renditions give a new sound to hits like because you love me, I turn to you, how do I live, unbreak my heart and many more… plus you can also sing ala Nina by playing the disk 2 where all of the songs are in minus one. Here are the tracks to here anticipated album:

 

1. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing

2. I Turn To You

3. Love Will Lead You Back

4. Because You Loved Me

5. Have You Ever

6. Un-Break My Heart

7. There You’ll Be

8. I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)

9. Blue Eyes Blue

10. How Can We Be Lovers?

11. When I See You Smile

12. Saving Forever For You

13. How Do I Live

14. I Could Not Ask For More

15. I Don’t Want To Be Your Friend

 

Here is her album launch in ASAP:

 

 

All in all I’m lucky to have listened or meet with these artists since they remind me of what are great and sad things about Filipino talents. The sad part is that while pinoy bands are the in thing… single artist are struggling to have great hits that they resort to just reviving familiar songs. Not that I’m totally against it but can’t they sing new songs that would call their own?  Well this is just a thought… violent reactions are welcomed… The great thing about this is that undeniably… pinoy artist are at par with international artists and even better. They sing these classic songs… made it current and bam… a sure hit song is born.

 

Well to these two artists… congratulation for making the album and I’m sure it is will be a hit again.

 

 

(‘o’) – Jupiterboi out…