Saturday, July 28, 2007 Catch Rachelle Ann Go live at SM City Saturday
SEARCH for a Star champion Rachelle Ann Go sets up stakes in the hit race for 2007 with the release of her new album, Obsession.
Produced by Christian de Walden of Hollywood, the CD is Rachelle Ann's third studio album and is expected to follow in the success of her earlier releases, Rachelle Ann Go and I Care.
De Walden, who usually works with leading pop stars in Spain, Italy, Mexico and the United States, also produced Sarah Geronimo's phenomenal, Becoming album for the international market.
He first worked with Rachelle Ann for some cuts in I Care including the hit single If You Walk Away. He was so impressed with the young singer's style and hardworking attitude that he decided to do a complete album with her, also earmarked for foreign sales on Viva Records' LA label Viva West.
"Rachelle Ann is terrific to work with in the studio," says De Walden. "She is energetic and has a great work ethic. She doesn't stop until she feels she has given it all she has. In the year that I have been working with her, she has improved tremendously."
The result of the collaboration is Obsession, which contains 13 new originals from songwriters in Europe, the United States, and the Philippines. With the goal in mind of presenting the 20-year-old Rachelle Ann as a matured and accomplished artist, De Walden created a mixture of sounds set against Latin and Euro influenced dance tracks and a variety of ballads. The first single release is the bittersweet love song, Don't Say Goodbye.
Obsession was recorded in Manila, Los Angeles, and Milan with engineers Luca Vittori and Eric Payumo. The other cuts in the album are You & Me, Alam ng Ating Mga Puso, This Must be Love, Come One Day, I Will Always Love You Anyway, Walk into My Life, And You Love Me, My Forever Love, I'm Sure, You are My Obsession, Something in the Air and Iyong-iyo.
Rachelle Ann is one of the leading contract artists under the Viva Artists Agency. She is a regular in the Sunday noontime show A.S.A.P. at ABS-CBN.
Among her hit recordings are Don't Cry Out Loud, You And Me (We Wanted It All) a duet with Christian Bautista, Here I Am Again, From the Start, If You Walk Away, I Care and Bakit.
Rachelle Ann will perform songs from Obsession and her other hits LIVE when she visits SM City Cagayan de Oro Saturday at 5 p.m.!
