When he got home, he thought maybe he should call her. Sana one day makapag-collaborate tayo (Hopefully one day, we can collaborate).” He kept Rina’s card. It was then that Chan looked to the old melody he wrote for the school reunion.īefore production started, Chan had just attended a Sunday Mass at the Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati City when a young woman knocked on his car window and said: “Mr. He agreed and proceeded to collect favorite Christmas songs from his childhood, but Bella said he needed to include his original compositions. Dy - suggested that Chan come out with a Christmas album. Two years later in 1990, the late Bella Dy Tan - boss of Universal Records and daughter of Philippine Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center president Dr. He got a telephone call from Chari Cruz-Zarate, requesting his help to create a melody for her beautiful poem “Ang Tubig Ay Buhay” (Water is Life) to be performed as a song for the school silver jubilee reunion of their Assumption High School Class of 1963. When asked how he came up with such a wonderful song, Chan said: “I thank God for that song.” He recounted that it started in 1988 when he had just returned from 11 years of doing sugar trading in New York City. I really do not deserve the title, maybe only as ‘the current flavor.’” There were others, like the late Levi Celerio or Francisco Santiago, who had many beautiful compositions like Ang Pasko ay Sumapit, Pasko Na Naman, etc. How a school reunion song became a Christmas carolĬhan explained: “I do not deserve that title. 22 at The Theatre at Solaire, Chan shared that when people dub him the “Father of Christmas Songs,” he politely declines the honor. Recently at a lunch where he spoke of his series of Christmas concerts in Australia and Canada, culminating in his “Going Home to Christmas” concert on Dec. The uplifting song Christmas in Our Hearts by singer, songwriter and businessman Jose Mari Chan - son of the late respected self-made Chinese immigrant entrepreneur Antonio Chan and Florence Lim Chan - has become a symbol of the advent of Christmas season here in the Philippines as early as September, when radio stations and malls begin playing his composition nonstop.Įven after half a century of numerous hit albums, Chan still expresses almost child-like wonder and thankfulness for the popularity of this Christmas anthem. Life can sometimes be a series of unexpected and unexplainable events, which come together to fulfill things beyond even our wildest dreams.
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