Cesar launches solo album

MANILA, Philippines - While Cesar Montano’s achievements as an actor remain unparalleled in the industry, he finds time to focus on his other passion which is music.

Cesar showcases his talent not only on singing, but also writing songs in his new outing simply called Cesar Montano under Sony Music Entertainment.

The film icon’s spanking new self-titled solo album under Sony contains seven original songs and two well-loved ditties (Oh Babe and Love) guaranteed to spark memories to warm the heart of those who will hear.

The album’s carrier single is the easy listening Darating Ang Araw, written by Ramon Nestor Cajipe from the arrangement of Benjie Pating. The song is a lover’s lighthearted attempt to express the heartbreak over the love that he is about to lose. The song was a unanimous favorite among radio stations this early.

For this album produced by Ferdie Marquez, Cesar collaborated and shared musical brilliance with some of the most respected musicians of our time — Noel Cabangon who wrote the music for the song Awit ni Melvin and Rico Blanco for Panahon na Naman.

Awit ni Melvin holds special meaning to Cesar as the inspiration to pen those words came right after he witnessed the sorrow of Melvin’s family and friends when he perished in that freak cyanide poisoning at a school in Bohol a few years back, where other young students also died.

It is no secret to a lot of people that Cesar breathes words as much as he breathes visual art when creativity strikes the artist in him. For this album, Cesar’s writing talent has been easily ignited. He contributed his own songs Patawarin, Bago Maging Bato and the theme song of his new sitcom on GMA 7 Andres De Saya (set to start airing next month) to complete the new album. After all, Cesar is undeniably greatly missed in the recording scene. His first solo album, Subok Lang  was released in 2000 under Star Records. He fondly calls this Sony Music outing, Pasubok Ulit.