Feature Artist of the Month:_Martin Nievera

This is the poem Martin Nievera wrote as intro to the song Ikaw Lang Ang Mamahalin, one of the 14 selections in his new album (tentatively titled) Souvenirs, released by MCA-Universal. Martin wrote poems for each of the 13 other songs. He doesn’t say who the poem quoted above is dedicated to.

There is no place that I would rather be
than right here with you and you here with me there’d be no other love that is heaven sent not like our love for ikaw lang ang mamahalin.

The original idea of this Conversation was for Martin to recall the "milestones" of each of the 19 years, from 1982 to the present, he has been in showbiz as some kind of a celebration of his recent selection as Entertainer of the Year (his second time to be so honored) by the Aliw Awards.

But as our Conversation progressed, Martin talked about other interesting episodes of his personal life, so the "scope" was expanded, with Martin revealing hitherto untold stories about (parts of) his childhood, his and Pops Fernandez’s failed marriage and his romance with Katrina Ojeda whom Martin describes as "the only woman in my life now."

Like his Forever album, Souvenirs (whose title might have to be changed because Souvenirs has been used by Jose Mari Chan for his album which also consists of old, familiar love songs) is a collector’s item, including such other songs as You Are My Song, You, Forever (duet with Regine Velasquez), You Are My Everything, Never Said Goodbye, The Greatest Love Affair (duet with Bert Nievera), The Promise, The Last Time I Felt Like This (duet with twin sister Vicki), Kahit Isang Saglit, It’s All Up To You (duet with US pop star Mikaila), To Say Goodbye (new composition), The Greatest Love of All and Pag-uwi (a Louie Ocampo composition which won the grand prize at the 2001 Metropop).

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