Sabrina expands musical horizons with I Love Acoustic 5

Sabrina

Acoustic singer Sabrina had a very productive and fruitful 2012. During the past year, she has released two albums, Acoustic Love Notes and I Love Acoustic 5, both under MCA Music. She also continued to reap the success of her previous albums from the I Love Acoustic series as she was given a handful of awards for amassing sales of over 175,000 units all over South East Asia.

I last saw Sabrina during the 25th Awit Awards where she was awarded I-Gateway Mobile Philippines Inc.'s Most Downloaded Artist for 2011. While her acoustic covers of popular foreign songs have been her bread and butter, Sabrina has recently expanded her musical horizons by starting to record original material and also by writing her own songs and eventually including them into her albums.

Sabrina at the 25th Awit Awards

For the Acoustic Love Notes album featuring popular radio personality Joe D’Mango, Sabrina has recorded a new song Sa Bawat Paghinga. This track, written by Toto Sorioso, was used as the theme song for the Philippine broadcast of the Korean television series Angel’s Temptation. Also included in this album is One True Love, the first time ever that Sabrina has recorded one of her own compositions. Finally and long overdue, Sabrina now has a couple of tracks (including Over for Now But Not Forever which she also wrote) that she can proudly call her own. But she doesn't stop here.

In her latest release, I Love Acoustic 5, another Sabrina composition, Oh Boy is included and it’s touted as a prequel to One True Love. Another notable track in this album is her English version of a popular Indonesian song, Could It Be. Originally recorded by Indonesian pop star Raisa, Sabrina’s version features Thai saxophonist Koh Mr. Saxman. Judging from Sabrina’s popularity in Indonesia, this track could become one of her biggest hits there. Speaking of big hits in Indonesia, Christian Bautista, another Filipino artist who made it big there joins Sabrina in the track Terrified which is originally recorded by Katharine McPhee and Zachary Levi. It will be very interesting to see how both artists’ Indonesian fans respond to this collaboration. A music video for this song is scheduled to be released soon.

Sabrina’s I Love Acoustic 5 is now out in record stores nationwide under MCA Music. Terrified and the rest of the tracks are also available as digital downloads over at MyMusicStore Philippines and iTunes. I Love Acoustic Sweetheart Edition, a 35 track package compiling Sabrina’s first two albums are also available in the market as well.

I Love Acoustic 5

Tracks:

1. We are Never Ever Getting Back Together

2. Call Me Maybe

3. Payphone

4. What Makes You Beautiful

5. Starships

6. Somebody that I Used to Know

7. Part of Me

8. One Thing

9. Glad You Came

10. I Won’t Give Up

11. We Found Love

12. Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)

13. A Thousand Years

14. Domino

15. If I Die Young

16. Could It Be

17. Oh Boy

18. Terrified