Music and Me: Whitney Houston's Run To You

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is anAmerican Singer, actress, record producer, film producer and former fashion model. Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women women to find success in pop music and movies. She has been referred to as "The Voice", and is known for her "powerful, penetrating pop-gospel voice".

In the 1980s, Houston was one of the first African-American female artists to receive heavy rotation on MTV in its early years, even when the network was leaning more towards a white male rock dominated format.Her debut album became the biggest selling debut album of all time for a solo artist, her follow up album was the first album by a female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200, and she holds a record seven consecutive #1 singles on the Billboard 100 chart.

Houston continued her success into Hollywood in the 1990s, starting with the box office hit The Bodyguard. The soundtrack to the movie is the best-selling soundtrack of all time, and the single "I Will Always Love You" the best-selling single by a female artist and 3rd best-selling song in the history of music. She continued the decade with other successful and culturally significant projects before returning to the studio. Houston is the fourth best-selling female recording artist in the U.S according to the RIAA, and is the "The Most Awarded Female Artist of All Time"according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

After Houston married former R&B singer Bobby Brown at the height of her career, rumors of drug abuse started to affect her popularity. This led to a decline in her public image and her album sales dropped during from 2000 to 2008, with stories regularly appearing in the tabloid press. After successful trips to rehab, Houston divorced Brown and gained custody of their only daughter in 2006. Her seventh studio album is scheduled for release in 2009.

Courtesy: www.wikipedia.org

Welcome Back Whitney, my all-time idol!

Run to You - Whitney Houston

For Run To You sheet music download, click this.

Music and Me: Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games)

One of the most played classical guitar pieces, Jeux Interdits is one heart-pounding musical creation by an anonymous virtuoso. Popularly known as Forbidden Games (English for Jeux Interdits), it must be in every professional guitar player's portfolio of sheet music. Personally, as an aspiring Pianist, it sounds heavenly as well on the piano, that is why I prodded with much effort on finding its sheet music for piano. Fortunately, I found one transcribed sheet music of Jeux Interdits. Not the original, but it will definitely fill the same nostalgia, i'm sure! So for classical guitar listeners, here's Jeux Interdits or Forbidden Game, as played by Narciso Yepes. the original sound track for the French film Forbidden Games - Jeux Interdits. Bravissimo!

Jeux Interdits - Narciso Yepes

Music and Me: Kung Di Rin Lang Ikaw by Emil Pama

Emil Pama is also the composer of the popular Bossa Nova hit by Sitti Navaro Para Sa Akin. His versions, of acoustic ingenuity, are in an entirely different panorama of acoustic music than that one popularized by the Philippines' Queen of Bossa Nova, Sitti.

Kundi Rin Lang Ikaw

Kundi rin lang ikaw
Ay di bale na lang
Pagka't nasa sayo ang mga pangarap ko
Oo nga't marami pang nandyan
Di ka mawalay sa aking isipan
Kaya't ako'y maghihintay na lang

Kundi rin lang ikaw
Ay siguro huwag na lang
At baka paglaruan lang
Puso kong walang alam
Oo nga't marami pang nandyan
Hindi mo ba ako nasasakyan
Kaya't ako'y maghihintay na lang
Kundi rin lang ikaw

Refrain:

Ang buhay ko ay biglang nagbago
Ang lahat ng bagay ay gumaganda
Makita ka lamang sinta ko
Masaya na ang araw ko
Kaya't ako'y maghihintay na lang
Kundi rin lang ikaw

Kundi rin lang ikaw
Para bang ayoko na
At baka di na makita
Ang isang katulad mo
Oo nga't marami pang nandyan
Hindi mo ba ako nasasakyan
Kaya't ako'y maghihintay na lang
Kundi rin lang ikaw

Repeat refrain

Bridge:

Kahit man lamang sa awitin ko
Ay madama ang pag-ibig ko

Ang buhay ko ay biglang nagbago
Ang lahat ng bagay ay gumaganda
Makita ka lamang sinta ko
Masaya na ang araw ko
Kaya't ako'y maghihintay na lang
Kundi rin lang ikaw

Emil Pama's Kundi Rin Lang Ikaw

Kung Di Rin Lang Ikaw - Emil Pama

Sitti's Kung Di Rin Lang Ikaw

Kung Di Rin Lang Ikaw - Sitti

Music and Me: My Immortal - Evanescence

A good friend from RAN Online suggested this song to me in-game. I have heard this song over the radio for a countless times. I like its score, yes. But until tonight, I have never had any clue how deep and passionate the passages here are. Evanescence truly gives justice to immortality. The immortality of pain. The immorality of absence. The immortality of time. The immortality of love.

My Immortal

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

[Chorus]

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

[Chorus]

My Immortal - Evanescence