(by Celebrity World columnist Crispina Martinez-Belen, Manila Bulletin Entertainment.  Friday,  November 27,  2009)

She has so much passion for music.  A proof of this is the release of her second album, “Am I?”  She wrote and arranged all the songs except for three which she co-wrote with friends.

“I started young-about five years old – when my love for music began,” Rica Arambulo revealed.  She first learned to play the piano, and singing followed later.  Her mother was a piano professor, and today, the family owns and manages a school of music in Greenhills, Metro Manila.

Rica finished a course in music-  a bachelor degree in piano- at the UP College of music.  That’s why “her life is her music, her music is her story!”  Rica is described as the Philippines’ velvet chanteuse.

The songs in her album, “Am I?”, are:  “In My Dreams,” “Am I?” “Gone,” “Letting Go,” “It’s Only You,””Simplify,” “Perfect Weather,” “Our Little Dreams,” “Splinter In My Mind,” “Lagpas Langit,” “Sa Puso Ko,” and “Me Voy,” (Gone).  It is often said that music is the language of the soul.  And since the soul is described as a combination of  a person’s mind and emotions, no other language or medium could communicate or describe one’s thoughts and feelings more vividly than through music. Rica Arambulo’s music reveals her deepest and most intimate thoughts.  Her music are like windows to her heart.

It was also problems of the heart  – her heart- which somehow gave her the biggest challenge to pursue a singing career aside from playing the piano.  So that she could move on, she started writing and composing music.

“I find much strength in every song I write,” Rica said.  “I am still open to fall in love again, but I hope it will be a more lasting love and commitment.”

“Am I?” is her second album, the first was self-titled “Rica Arambulo.”

Be enthralled and fascinated with her music!  Her albums are now available in selected record bars.

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