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Sitti Wishes to Take Ethnic Music to the World |
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Written by Loren
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Tuesday, 03 February 2009 |
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After a successful Christmas concert and the release of her certified platinum Christmas album, bossa nova diva Sitti Navarro, best known for her soothing voice and captivating charm, still can’t get over gushing over her very successful 2008.Aside from the certified platinum album, Sitti also has a string of best-selling albums like Café Bossa, Sitti Live, Sitti In the Mix, and My Bossa Nova that captured the Filipinos’ interest in the bossa nova genre. Her Café Bossa led to the surge of bossa nova CDs and bossa-inspired OPM songs. Given these accomplishments, Sitti can rightfully be credited for partly the way towards large- scale bossa nova appreciation here in the Philippines. For 2009, Sitti will be busy preparing for a new album. She added that they are still brainstorming. It will still have that bossa nova feel, but I wanted to incorporate new sounds like smooth jazz, which is also close to her heart like bossa nova. Being of Maranao descent, Sitti also dreams of coming up with an all-OPM album that incorporates the sound of the kulintang, a musical instrument composed of a row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically. She dreams of introducing the signature Filipino sound to the wolrd just like Jamaica have its reggae and Brazil has its bossa nova. [via] |
