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March 20, 2006 Marius and Melody are hastily recruited by Opera Pacific to fill out the "Ethiopian Chorus" in Verdi's "Aida" for Opera Pacific's upcoming April performance of "Aida" at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. This is a rather strange developing story. More details later. March 12, 2006 One of our latest customers is Leila Forentino, who took over lead role of "Kim" in "Miss Saigon" on Broadway from Lea Salonga in '92/'93. She is now an Independent singer/songwriter playing at Borders Cafes around LA. What a transition. February 10, 2006 One of our customers, Dr. Harry Wong, says Marius's voice is "fantastic." He then informs us that he is a close friend of the mother of Cheryl Burke, the Filipina who is the professional dance partner of Drew Lachey on the hit program "Dancing with the Stars." January 10, 2006 Happy New Year! Well, we have a Web site, we're at CD Baby, we're at Amazon.com, we're at MySpace.com, we're using Google AdWords. But nothing beats selling CDs out of a box! December 2, 2005 Marius' CD is finally available for purchase. See below for special Internet price. November 15, 2005 The CD is in the shop being replicated. We'll set it up as a fundraiser for various organizations in order to generate initial sales. October 16, 2005 Three years after we started this project, we finally have a CD cover. Also, each song has a photo as well. Just click on an audio sample on the left to see its photo. October 2, 2005 Finally did a photo shoot at Western High. Hopefully we'll get a CD cover and Web photos out of it. September 19, 2005 The Web site for the CD Single "If & When" is launched. This is a side project, a remake of the 70's classic "If" as a blend of pop, opera and rap. Audio samples are available on that page. August 27, 2005 Marius has finally recorded "Gethsemane" with modern rock trax by cousin Nathan David. This is the last song on the album, but there are still some things to do to finish the album. At least Marius is done, and the album is close to finally being finished. An audio sample is available on the left. April 22, 2005 Cousin Erich Parungao comes over and records the instrument parts for "For All We Know," replacing the MIDI parts. A revised audio sample is available on the left. April 11, 2005 Marius records his part of "For All We Know," done as a duet. Jubel Obien recorded her part back in October of 2004. The audio sample on the left is a Temporary version that uses four MIDI instruments. We'll replace them later. January 7, 2005 Marius records "This Is The Moment" from "Jekyll & Hyde." I was not able to get the special version I had tried for over a year to have done, so we had to settle for another minus one. An audio sample is available on the left. December 30, 2004 Drummer cousin Dodi Parungao records drum tracks for "For All We Know." This will unfortunately be the only song he appears in. October 27, 2004 Rocker cousin Nathan David completes his modern rock accompaniment for "Gethsemane." This is actually a revision of one he did last year. October 3, 2004 Singer/songwriter Jubel Obien comes over to record three duets. Audio samples for two of the duets, both from "Miss Saigon" are available on the left. The third one won't be available for a while. September 25, 2004 Soprano Melody Versoza returns to re-record the songs she recorded last year. She wanted different versions, so I got her different versions. Audio samples are available on the left. July 29, 2004 Ok, the reverb on the five latest songs has been redone. I just had to remove the high frequency roll-off which was making it dull. July 28, 2004 Marius tells me the reverb on the latest songs is wrong. Well, yes it is, but it's because he moved closer to the mic. Now I have to redo them again. Maybe tomorrow or the next day. July 26, 2004 Over the last two weeks, Marius has re-recorded "Ave Maria, "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Nessun Dorma!" and has recorded two new songs, "A Time For Us" and "Che gelida manina." Audio samples are available on the left. Finally, his album is half done. June 27, 2004 Pianist Morris Villarosa records keyboards for "For All We Know," arranged by Ed Parungao. We'll use real instruments for the other parts of this song. March 22, 2004 Pianist Morris Villarosa re-records "Libiamo." An existing recording of the song is used as a beat track allowing us to steal the choruses and put them into our mix. February 19 & March 1, 2004 Andre remixes Marius' four songs even though Marius plans to re-record three of them. The remixes focus on volume levels and panning of instruments. Melody's songs are remixed as well. February 17, 2004 Pianist Stella Kotova re-records "A Time For Us." The first version was too fast. January 5, 2004 Marius records "You'll Never Walk Alone" and the famed aria "Nessun Dorma!" during the Christmas break. Audio samples are available on the left. Both songs need some rework. December 5, 2003 The infamous Kobe song "Trouble Smile" is unleashed on the Web page www.TroubledSmile.com. Marius sings the Pagliacci opera samples on this most unusual rock song. November 27, 2003 Marius re-records "Ave Maria." Perhaps we can move on to other songs now. October 26, 2003 Marius re-records "The Lord's Prayer" while fires rage in the mountains. September 4, 2003 Marius finally records a couple of songs, "Ave Maria" and "The Lord's Prayer." Full-length audio files are available on the left. He plans to re-record both of them. Wow, great progress. July 9, 2003 Soprano Melody Versoza beats Marius to the punch and records her two solos. Full-length audio files are available on the left. April 26, 2003 Pianist Gordon Lejarde records accompaniment for Ed Parungao's "The Lord's Prayer." April 24, 2003 Pianist Stella Kotova records accompaniment for "A Time For Us," arranged by Ed Parungao. February 25, 2003 Pianist Stella Kotova records accompaniment for "Libiamo." December 23, 2002 Pianist Gordon Lejarde finally comes over and records accompaniments for "Ave Maria" (Bach/Gounod) and "You'll Never Walk Alone," arranged by uncle Ed Parungao. October 10, 2002 Marius' Web page is under construction while his debut CD is being developed. It looks like it will take a long long time to complete the CD. |