MANILA, Philippines - All celebrations in the Philippines are not complete without music. Birthdays, anniversaries, reunions, graduation, weddings, Christmas, New Year, name it, and all are celebrated with special theme songs to boot. This is the concept behind the newest album of Bonggo (the Singing Mayor of Olongapo), titled Let’s Celebrate!
Let’s Celebrate is Bonggo’s third album distributed under Viva Records. It is a double CD album with 24 cuts all to celebrate life, love, success and so much more. Easily, it can be called, the “album for all seasons†or “album of the year†for there is a song for every occasion all throughout the year.
Like for Christmas, the album boasts of Pasko Sa Pilipinas, a bouncy “rock and roll†Christmas song that will make you sing along and even dance to its beat. Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) all over the globe will definitely want to come home and celebrate Christmas with their families, Pilipinas style. There’s also the song Happy New Year which marks a new beginning that is full of hope and happiness. It’s a song that will make you want to start the year literally with a bang!
For reunions, no better song could have perfectly captured how one truly feels upon seeing friends and relatives after a long time, than the song, It’s Good to See You Again. Tailor-made as a reunion song, it’s a perfect anthem for get-together and special gatherings. But the hopeless romantics can very well relate to its lyrics, too.
Always With You, a song that can easily become a top pick as a love or wedding theme, is another great song in the album. A potential big hit among the many Pinoy romantics, the song is a collaboration of Bonggo and award winning composer, Edith Gallardo, and musical arranger Nino Regalado. Other “surprise†songs in the album are Happy Birthday (this is not “the†happy birthday we all know), Happy Anniversary to Us, Graduation Day and You, Let’s Celebrate and Thank You, Salamat.
There are socially relevant songs in the album as well, promoting the Olongapo spirit of hope, unity, service and excellence like Children of Olongapo, Himno ng Olongapo, Basura Jingle, Subik, Maganda Ka Pa Rin, Anne Dito Lang Ako, It’s More Fun in the Philippines, San Marcelino, Castillejos and so much more
Let’s Celebrate, produced by producer Margot Gallardo, is now out in all record stores nationwide and on iTunes.