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Another Soul Obsession

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Thor Thor, premier R&B singer, performer & songwriter steps out into the spotlight with his new album "Soul Obsessions: Duets With Thor". A remix of songs heard on the WAVE 89.1 playlist, but this time sung with Thor’s favorite people. The album features the best singers in the recording industry today. +/- R&B dominates the over-all sound of the album of course, and Thor, a great soul singer in his own right (an Awit awardee no less) shuns the twist and turns of R&B singing in the album opener in favor of some good old fashioned singing – putting the song first and histrionics on the sideline as evidenced by the sublime vocal yearnings of Thor and MYMP’s Juris Fernandez on Be My Number Two, of course Chin Alcantara isn’t far behind on the guitar. The classy duet on the standard You Don’t Know Me with the fresh voiced bossa singer Sofia is also a sample championing substance over technique. Track Listing: 1.Obb Intro 2.Be My Number Two ( With Mymp ) 3.What Abo...

For Bossa Lovers

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Sofia Sofia is a 23-year old bossa singer in the Philippines. She graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in Medical Technology. She is now a licensed medical technologist. Sofia became the featured artist in a bossa-inspired album project of Ivory Records by accident. After graduating, she was on her way to Japan to pursue her research scholarship grant to study Hematology when she was asked to help gather research materials for the project, since she was into bossa nova since she was in high school. Aside from helping out for the lyrics, CDs, and other research materials, she was also asked to submit a demo tape so that Ivory Records would know what bossa sounds like. Sofia submitted a demo tape of the song "Desafinado". The record company was impressed, and then she was tapped to be a session singer. Eventually she was chosen to be the featured artist for the album. A sliver of glass, A life, the sun, A knife, a death, The end of the run. And the riverba...