A Love Album is exquisitely produced, and Jaya acquits herself well on the album’s upbeat R&B/dance-styled tunes and soulful ballads. In 1992, while touring Japan as a backup singer and keyboardist for American R&B artist Stevie B., Jaya was approached by the Japanese label Toshiba/EMI to make an album for Japanese release. Jaya is noted for being the Philippine music industry’s female record holder of a seven-times platinum album. Five songs were recorded in the US while the rest were done in the Philippines. In 1989, she was re-christened “Jaya” and signed a record deal with Stevie B’s label LeFrak-Moelis Records and her eponymous first album, produced by Stevie B, was released in the US. Jaya is the second Filipino recording artist to chart in the United States (the first being The Rocky Fellers), with her debut single “If You Leave Me Now” peaking at number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
In 2007, she released her eighth album Cool Change under her new label, GMA Records, featuring covers of international hit songs including Donna Summer’s “On the Radio” and the Chaka Khan’s “Through the Fire”. Jaya released an album under Universal Records entitled All Souled Out, a CD album containing 12 tracks of all revival songs. In 2001, Jaya released her sixth Unleashed album where she sang the songs in a relaxed, confident manner, and performed middle-of-the-road songs that mostly have depth and quality. After five years in the recording scene, she released her first greatest hits album, entitled Five featuring a duet of Habang May Buhay (While There’s Life) with Regine Velasquez and Kung Wala Na (If It Is Gone) from the Abandonada soundtrack. In 1999, Jaya released, her fifth album released in her native country since 1996, entitled Honesty originally done by Billy Joel, was also her career single. The album consists of songs taken from an earlier Jaya album, also called A Love Album, released in the United States in 1989, as well as songs recorded specifically for the 1992 Japanese release.
The first single was “Is It Over?” originally sung by Ronnie Milsap which received a Platinum award in 2009. Another one is Vehnee Saturno, who wrote and produced most of Jaya’s early hits. She approached her last album, 1999’s Honesty, in the refined manner that she furthered on Unleashed. In 1999, Jaya faced a big challenge when she did her first musical, the Ramayana-based Rama at Sita that starred Lani Misalucha.
After 18 weeks on the Hot 100, the song was still gaining in both sales and airplay—it ended up peaking at number 44 in February 1990— and remained in the Hot 100 for a total of for 26 weeks, an unusually long chart run for a single peaking outside the top 40. The album’s first single, “If You Leave Me Now”, was a hit in discos and debuted on the U.S. Jaya won Best Female Vocal Performance for the song “Hiding Inside Myself” at 23rd Awit Awards on September 30, 2010, defeating some of the younger local singers of today.
It hit top 10 in several markets and made it to number one at the crossover powerhouse KMEL. The song did well in many markets but at different times, thus diluting its Hot 100 rank. The album consisted largely of freestyle dance tracks written or co-written by Stevie B, who also provided backup vocals.
She jaya 9 bet released a Christmas album, entitled Kung Kailan Pasko which contained traditional carols alongside original compositions, including a jazz version of The Christmas Song. Jaya’s follow-up single, “One Kiss Per Minute”, was a minor dance hit, but failed to make the pop chart and the third single from the album failed to chart as did another non-album single in 1993. It was her third cover album, containing classic R&B and jazz songs that she grew up listening to.
The concept album was released initially on a limited edition micro secure digital format and after two weeks, it will be available on physical CDs and digital downloading. His contributions are “Pagkukunwari” and “Di Na Ba Kita Mapipigilan”, which is the album’s first single release. After four years of hiatus in the music scene, Jaya returned with her seventh studio album entitled, Fall in Love Again.
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