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Tagala Talaga is the third studio album by Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

singer-actress Regine Velasquez

Regine Velasquez

Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez , better known as Asia's Songbird, Regine Velasquez, is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer and TV host...

, released on October 1991 by Vicor Records

Vicor Music Corporation

Vicor Music Corporation is one of the major record labels in the Philippines with a tag-line as "The Home of Original Pilipino Music". Its office is located at 782 Aurora Blvd., Quezon City, Philippines. Established in 1965 by Vic Del Rosario and Orly Ilacad to produce record albums featuring...

in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

in CD and cassette format. It is her second album from Vicor Music Corporation

Vicor Music Corporation

after Nineteen 90
Nineteen 90
Nineteen '90 is the second studio album from Filipina singer-actress Regine Velasquez-Alcasid on November 1989. When it was released, Velasquez was a new contract artist for Vicor Music Corp. and has signed up under Primeline Management Team under Ronnie Henares and Ida Henares. The album was...

(1989). The album was produced by her then manager Ronnie Henares and consisted of Velasquez’ renditions of classic Filipino compositions by Freddie Aguilar

Freddie Aguilar

Ferdinand Pascual Aguilar , better known as Freddie Aguilar, is a folk musician from the Philippines. He is best known for his rendition of "Bayan Ko", which became the anthem for the opposition to the Marcos regime during the 1986 People Power Revolution, and for his song "Anak", the best-selling...

, Ryan Cayabyab

Ryan Cayabyab

Ryan Cayabyab is a Filipino musician and was the Executive and Artistic Director of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts...

, Willy Cruz and George Canseco

George Canseco

George Masangkay Canseco was a Filipino song composer.Canseco studied liberal arts at University of the East...

among others. The carrier single released is "Buhay Ng Buhay Ko" originally done by the Leah Navarro and composed by Nonong Pedero. The album was certified gold and double platinum by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI).

Background

Tagala Talaga ("A Genuine Tagalog Lady") is her last album from Vicor Music Corporation

Vicor Music Corporation

before moving to Polycosmic Records. The album was her first all covers album re-interpreting classic OPM songs including compositions from National Artists for Music Awardees Ryan Cayabyab

Ryan Cayabyab

Ryan Cayabyab is a Filipino musician and was the Executive and Artistic Director of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts...

, Lucio D. San Pedro

Lucio D. San Pedro

Lucio San Pedro was born on February 11, 1913 in Angono, Rizal, the Philippines. He was a composer and teacher in the Philippines...

, and Levi Celerio

Levi Celerio

Levi Celerio was a Filipino composer and lyricist who was born in Manila, Philippines. Celerio was a prolific song-writer, with over 4,000 songs to his credit. He is perhaps best-known for being a leaf-player, a feat for which he was put into the Guinness Book of World Records...

. Velasquez had a concert with the same album title under the direction of Freddie Santos with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra is the nation's leading symphony orchestra and a resident company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines , located on Manila's shoreline...

after the album release.

Track Listing

Album Credits

Personnel

Chito Ilagan – executive producer
Ronnie Henares – producer
Bambi Santos – assistant producer
Ida Ramos-Henares – cover and design
Jojo Isorena – cover and design
Romy Peralta – photography

Production

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra – orchestration, strings (tracks 3 and 7)
Restituto Umali – conductor, arranger (tracks 3 and 7)
Louie Ocampo – arranger (tracks 1 and 6)
Eric Antonio – arranger (track 2)
Henry Garcia – arranger (tracks 4 and 8)
Carlo Bulahan – arranger (track 5)

Background

Track Listing

Album Credits

See also