FOREVER

MARTIN NIEVERA & REGINA VELASQUEZ

SONGWRITERS: BRIAN HOLLAND; LAMONT HERBERT DOZIER & FREDDIE GORMAN

COUNTRY: PHILLIPPINES

ALBUM: BEST WISHES: A WEDDING LOVE SONG COLLECTION

LABEL: EMI MUSIC PHILLIPPINES

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2004

 

            Filipino singer Regine Velasquez has recorded material for seventeen studio albums, nine soundtrack albums and five extended plays(EP). She has also collaborated with other artists on duets and featured songs on their respective albums. After signing a record contract with Viva Records in 1987, Velasquez began to work with producers Vic del Rosario and Ronnie Henares, who co-produced all of the songs on her 1987 debut studio album Regine. Christine Bendebel wrote the tracks "Kung Maibabalik Ko Lang" and "Urong Sulong", while Awit Award-winning songwriter Vehnee Saturno co-wrote "Isang Lahi". Del Rosario and Henares also co-produced Velasquez's second studio album Nineteen 90 (1990); its lead single "Narito Ako" was written by Nonong Pedero and was originally recorded and performed by Maricris Belmont as an entry for the 1978 Metro Manila Popular Music Festival.

             Nievera was born on February 5, 1962, in Manila, Philippines with twin sister, Victoria, to Bert Nievera and Conchita Razon. Nievera spent most of his childhood in Hawaii with his father as his father sang for the group Society of Seven. The Nievera family also took up residence in the Bay Area in California for a short time in the late ’70s. Martin attended high school in Walnut Creek, California.

          Inspired by his father’s talent and success, Nievera returned to the Philippines in 1982 to begin his own singing career and by June 1982 he released his first LP, Martin…Take One, with the album reaching platinum in just five months.[citation needed] Nievera began co-hosting the TV variety show Penthouse Live! with Pops Fernandez, the Philippines’ “Concert Queen,” who would later become his wife. Nievera’s second LP, 1984’s The Best Gift, also reached platinum. In 1987, Penthouse Live! was changed to Martin and Pops Twogether, in celebration of their marriage. After his marriage to Fernandez, with whom he has two sons, Ram and Robin, failed in 1998, he wrote and recorded music for the sole purpose of winning her back, which he called Forever. Even though he did not succeed, the music ended up in the hands of the public and rose to become a best-selling music collection. The two sequels, Forever Forever and Return to Forever are also about the split. Both of these albums hit platinum sales as well. In 2001, he plagiarized “We Just Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye” by Diane Warren and included it as “To Say Goodbye” in his “My Souvenirs” album compilation, which was later pulled out of the market for copyright violation lawsuit.[1]|As an actor, Nievera has an extensive acting career and has appeared or starred in eleven movies and seven television series and specials. Nievera’s film credits include dramas, romance, science fiction, comedy and action.

          Nievera is temporarily based in Las Vegas, Nevada with Katrina Ojeda with whom he has a son named Santino (born October 7, 2006). He had his 25th anniversary concert on September 14 and 15, 2007 at the Captain’s Bar of the Mandarin Hotel in Makati.|He appeared with Hawaii’s Society of Seven and Lani Misalucha at the Flamingo Las Vegas from February 13 through April 13, 2008. He performed a pre-Valentine/post-birthday concert with Pops Fernandez titled “Missing You” on February 6, 2009, at the Araneta Coliseum. Martin is also currently co-hosting the weekly music show called ASAP’ 09.|On May 2, 2009, Nievera was chosen to sing the Philippine national anthem during the boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton. Although he was criticized by the National Historical Institute because of his peculiar style in performing the anthem, many of those who watched the event, including Pacquiao, defended him.|In August 2009, Martin Nievera has a concert together with Gary Valenciano for the first time in “As 1”. They also both have a new album in one collaboration album.|On September 2009, Nievera suffered Dehydration after his concert on September 19, and his best friend, Gary Valenciano worried about his buddy’s condition. The following day, Martin was discharged from the Hospital.

             Forever is a 1994 Philippine romantic drama film directed by Rowell Joseph Santiago and written by Jose Dalisay Jr., Ricky Lee, and Tatus Aldana. Starring Aga Muhlach and Mikee Cojuangco, the film tells the story of a daughter who runs away from her family upon knowing she will be forced to marry someone whom she does not love. The film was released by Viva Films on September 28, 1994.

We've come so far

To leave it all behind

I wonder why

 

Why did you go away

You left me all alone

No words can say

My love please stay

 

You and I

We have moments left to share

You and I

We can make it anywhere

You and I

We belong in each other's arms

There can be no other love

Now I know we can have it all...

Forever

 

Each night I pray

That we can be together

Once again

 

Forever more we'll stay

In love this way

No matter what they say

Until the end

 

You and I

We have moments left to share

You and I

We can make it anywhere

You and I

We belong in each other's arms

There can be no other love

Now I know we can have it all...

Forever

 

You and I

We have moments left to share

You and I

We can make it anywhere

You and I

We belong in each other's arms

There can be no other love

Now I know that we can have it all...

Forever

Now I know we can have it all...

Forever

Now I know we can have it all...

Forever.

MY DESTENY

JIM BRICKMAN & JORDAN HILL

SONGWRITERS: DE VILLER DANE ANTHONY; HOSEIN SYED SEAN & BRICKMAN JAMES MERRILL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DESTENY

LABEL: WINDHAM HILL RECORDS

GENRE: NEW AGE

YEAR: 1999

 

     Jordan Hill (born Whitney Jordan Hill) is an American singer-songwriter.

     Hill was originally signed by producer David Foster to his own label 143 Records, a division of Warner Music Group. Her first song, "Remember Me This Way", which was produced by Foster, became the film Casper's theme song and was released as a single.

    Jordan Hill's self-titled debut album was released on May 21, 1996, and was produced by David Foster, Greg Charley, Rhett Lawrence, Jeff Pescetto, SoulShock & Karlin and Mario Winans. Hill covered many songs, such as Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real", Oleta Adams' "I Just Had to Hear Your Voice", and Lisa Stansfield's "Make It Right". "For the Love of You", produced by Foster and Winans, was released as the first single; it became a hit both on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B/Hip-Hop charts. However, the remix version by Tony Moran became her biggest hit, going Top 10 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

         The second single, released only in Europe, was "How Many Times" (which was later covered by Aretha Franklin) and the third single, also a Europe exclusive, was "Too Much Heaven", a cover of the Bee Gees song and featured Barry Gibb singing backup. Due to a lack of support and promotion, she left the label.

         Hill has worked with some notable artists, such as the Bee Gees and Jim Brickman, whose 1999 Top 10 adult contemporary hit "Destiny" featured Hill on vocals, along with Billy Porter.

       As of 2014, Hill was writing and recording her second album, which was initially scheduled for release in 2015.

    Billy Porter (born September 21, 1969) is an American actor and singer. He attended Taylor Allderdice, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, and achieved fame performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer and actor.

         Porter won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Lola in Kinky Boots at the 67th Tony Awards. He credits the part for "cracking open" his feminine side to confront toxic masculinity. For the role, Porter also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. In 2014 Porter won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Kinky Boots. He currently stars in the television series Pose for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, becoming the first openly gay black man to be nominated and win in any lead acting category at the Primetime Emmys.

       Porter is included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

         "Destiny" is a song co-written and performed by American recording artist Jim Brickman, featuring singer Jordan Hill and Billy Porter. It was released in 1999 on Windham Hill Records and BMG as the second single and as well as the thirteenth track from his fifth studio album of the same name. It is a pop song that was written by Dane Deviller, Sean Hosein and Jim Brickman and produced by the latter and by David Pringle.

What if I never knew
What if I never found you
I'd never have this feeling in my heart
How did this come to be
I don't know how you found me
But from the moment I saw you
Deep inside my heart I knew
 
Baby you're my destiny
You and I were meant to be
With all my heart and soul
I give my love to have and hold
And as far as I can see
You were always meant to be
My destiny
 
I wanted someone like you
Someone that I could hold on to
And give my love until the end of time
But forever was just a word
Something I'd only heard about
But now you're always there for me
When you say forever I believe
 
Baby you're my destiny
You and I were meant to be
With all my heart and soul
I give my love to have and hold
And as far as I can see
You were always meant to be
My destiny
 
Maybe all we need
Is just a little faith
'Cause baby I believe
That love will find the way
Hey yeah
 
Baby you're my destiny
You and I were meant to be
With all my heart and soul
I give my love to have and hold
And as I far as I can see
From now until eternity
You were always meant to be
My destiny
You're my destiny
You're my.

IF I EVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN

KENNY ROGERS & ANNE MURRAY

SONGWRITERS: S. DORFF & G. SKLEROV

COUNTRY: U. S. A. X CANADA

ALBUM: SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: COUNTRY MUSIC

YEAR: 1989

 

            Morna Anne Murray CC ONS (born June 20, 1945) is a Canadian singer. Her albums consisting primarily of pop, country, and adult contemporary music have sold over 55 million copies worldwide during her 40-year career.

       Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach Nº. 1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird" (1970). She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain. She is also the first woman and the first Canadian to win "Album of the Year" at the 1984 Country Music Association Awards for her Gold-plus 1983 album A Little Good News.

           Murray has received four Grammys, a record 24 Junos, three American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, and three Canadian Country Music Association Awards. She has been inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Juno Hall of Fame, The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame Walkway of Stars in Nashville, and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles and on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.

In 2011, Billboard ranked her 10th on their list of the 50 Biggest Adult Contemporary Artists Ever.

           Kenneth Ray Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time.

         In the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie". After some solo releases, including 1958's "That Crazy Feeling", Rogers then joined a group with the jazz singer Bobby Doyle. In 1966 he became a member of the folk ensemble the New Christy Minstrels, playing double bass and bass guitar as well as singing. In 1967, he and several members of the New Christy Minstrels left to found the group the First Edition, with whom he scored his first major hit, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", a psychedelic rock song which peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. As Rogers took an increased leadership role in the First Edition following the success of 1969's "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", the band gradually changed styles to a more country feel. The band broke up in 1975–76, and Rogers embarked on a long and successful solo career, which included several successful collaborations, including duets with singers Dolly Parton and Sheena Easton and a songwriting partnership with Lionel Richie. His signature song, 1978's "The Gambler", was a crossover hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. He developed the Gambler persona into a character for a successful series of television films starting with 1980's Emmy-nominated Kenny Rogers as The Gambler.

      Rogers' albums The Gambler and Kenny were featured in the About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever". He was voted the "Favorite Singer of All Time" in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People. He received numerous awards, such as the AMAs, Grammys, ACMs, and CMAs as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six decades in 2003. Later success included the 2006 album release Water & Bridges, an across-the-board hit that hit the Top 5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting in the Top 15 of the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, "I Can't Unlove You", was also a sizable chart hit. Remaining a popular entertainer around the world, he continued to tour regularly until his retirement in 2017.

         Rogers had acting roles in movies and television shows, including the title roles in Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, the MacShayne series for The NBC Mystery Movie, and the 1982 feature film Six Pack. He was a co-founder of the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters in collaboration with former Kentucky Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown Jr. Although the stores closed in the United States, they are still a fixture in Asia.

           "If I Ever Fall in Love Again" is a song written by Steve Dorff and Gloria Sklerov, and performed by Anne Murray and Kenny Rogers as a duet. The song reached number six on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart and number nine on the Canadian Country chart in. It was released in September 1989 as the first single from Murray's compilation álbum Greatest Hits Volume II and Roger's studio album Something Inside So Strong. The song was produced by Jim Ed Norman and Steve Dorff. The song didn't fare very well in North America (with the exception of the Country and Adult Contemporary Charts in Canada), but in the Philippines it became a number one hit.

[Kenny]

You, I know you're everything that I've been looking for.

And I, I look into your eyes and could not ask for more.

 

[Anne]

So it's only fair to lay it on the line.

Hold on, I'm gonna need a little time

 

[Duet]

But if I ever fall in love again

Sometime when this broken heart can mend.

I know it's gonna be with you,

You're the one to pull me through, though I don't know when.

If I ever fall in love again.

 

[Anne]

Scared, yes I'm scared to fly, it's such a long way down.

And yet, if you'll just trust in me, I'm sure I'll come around.

 

[Kenny]

And I know when you're hurt, it's hard to let someone inside,

[Duet]

In your arms I feel I'm ready now to try.

 

[Duet]

So if I ever fall in love again

Sometime when this broken heart can mend.

I know it's gonna be with you,

You're the one to pull me through, though I don't know when.

If I ever fall in love again.

 

[Anne]

I'd be a fool to ever let you go.

 

[Duet]

You're the best thing in my life,

 

[Rap]

And feels like there’s never end.

How do I say baby whispers of memory?

Under your love, under your world,

How to your lips and we kiss you and I in the pure clouds.

 

[Music bridge]

 

[Kenny]

Oh, I know it's gonna be with you...

You're the one to pull me through, though I don't know when.

 

[Duet]

If I ever fall in love again

If I ever fall in love again.

I SHOULD´VE FOLLOWED YOU HOME

AGNETHA FÄLTSKOG & GARY BARLOW

SONGWRITERS: GARY BARLOW & JÖRGEN ELOFSSON

COUNTRY: SWEDEN X U. K.

ALBUM: A

LABEL: UNIVERSAL MUSIC

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2012

 

          Agnetha Åse Fältskog (Swedish pronunciation: [aŋˈnêːta ˈfɛ̂ltskuːɡ]) (born 5 April 1950) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and actress. She achieved success in Sweden after the release of her debut álbum Agnetha Fältskog in 1968, and reached international stardom as a member of the pop group ABBA, which has sold over 360 million albums and singles worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists in history.

        After the break-up of ABBA, Fältskog found success with three albums and a leading role in a movie as a solo artist in the 1980s, though she became more solitary in the 1990s, avoiding outside publicity and residing on the Stockholm County island of Ekerö. Fältskog stopped recording music for 16 years until she released a new album in 2004. She returned again in 2013 with A, her highest UK charting solo album to date.

        Gary Barlow OBE (born 20 January 1971) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and television personality. He is the lead singer of the British pop group Take That.

      Barlow is one of the United Kingdom's most successful songwriters, having written fourteen number-one singles (10 with Take That, 3 solo, 1 with Robbie Williams "Candy") and twenty-four top-ten hits. As a solo artist, he has had three number-one singles, six top-ten singles and three number-one albums, and has additionally had seventeen top-five hits, twelve number-one singles and eight number-one albums with Take That. Barlow has also established himself as a talent show judge and television personality. He has judged on The X Factor UK (2011–2013) and Let It Shine (2017).

         Barlow has received six Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Services to British Music. He has sold over 50 million records worldwide. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to the entertainment industry and charity.

           "I Should've Followed You Home" is a duet sung by Swedish recording artist and ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog and British singer-songwriter and Take That frontman Gary Barlow. Written by Barlow and producer Jörgen Elofsson, it was the third single taken from A.

Can’t believe it’s really you

You still look the way you used to

All this time

What have you done?

Won’t you tell me

What you’ve been through?

 

And maybe

If you

Want to

Let’s talk for a while

 

Dance floor dust

Never quite settles

Busy feat, remember still

The way we moved

So close in the darkness

All the music, the magic, the thrill

I must have been so lost in the moment

I missed the chance to make you my own

Now I know

Now I know

Now I know

I should’ve followed you home

 

Yeah, should’ve followed you home

So familiar and so right

You never left me since that one night

Though we try to say goodbye

Some things stay with you your whole life

For your whole life

 

Dance floor dust

Never quite settles

Busy feat, remember still

The way we moved

So close in the darkness

All the music, the magic, the thrill

I must have been so lost in the moment

I missed the chance to make you my own

Now I know

Now I know

I should’ve followed you home

 

Snow falls

Streetlights paint your face

Smile and say ‘take care’

I’ll see you soon again

 

Maybe

If you

Want to

I’ll see you soon again

 

Dance floor dust

Never quite settles

Busy feat, remember still

The way we moved

So close in the darkness

All the music, the magic, the thrill

I must have been so lost in the moment

I missed the chance to make you my own

Now I know

Now I know

Now I know

I should’ve followed you home

 

Yeah, should’ve followed you home

Oh, should’ve followed you home

Yeah

 

Yeah, should’ve followed you home

Yeah

Yeah

Oooh followed you home.