PAALAM NA popularized by Rachel Alejandro - the carrier single of her 10-track album, “Sentimental,” released in 1994 under Alpha Records - as performed by Cecille Ordiales and recorded on a Redmi 12 android phone at Aceland Amusement Center, Imus Terminal Mall (Imart), Imus, Cavite, Philippines on Saturday, 20 July 2024
Videographer: Jonathan Ang alias Dr. Jones
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TRIVIA:
Rachel Jingco Alejandro (born 18 February 1974) is a Filipino singer and actress.
Paalam Na*
Songwriters can understandably write a break-up song perhaps easily. However, if the composer personally went through the heart-breaking parting of ways, wrapping up a song can certainly be difficult as there is just “no easy way to break somebody’s heart.”
With former sweethearts Rachel Alejandro and Dingdong Avanzado, they both channeled the pain they experienced in their break up through a heart-ren ough a heart-rending ballad, “Paalam Na,” released in 1994.
The song, that admirably became a creative collaboration of the two best-selling artists, was originally recorded by Alejandro. “Paalam Na” became the carrier single of her 10-track album, “Sentimental,” released under Alpha Records.
“Dingdong and I had been together for three-and-a-half years when that final breakup happened,” Alejandro told ABS-CBN News. “Then we wrote ‘Paalam Na’.”
She created the Tagalog lyrics based on the letter in English that Avanzado left on her bed that fateful day. “I made a Tagalog poem out of that letter,” Alejandro shared. “The sentiments are exactly as he had written. When I was done, I sent the letter to him and asked him to create a melody for it.”
“Paalam Na” was Alejandro’s songwriting debut. Although Avanzado is known to be a songwriter, too, Alejandro only wrote her first composition that year (1994). She included “Paalam Na” in “Sentimental,” her fourth and by far, most successful album.
“The song tells the story of a love that, although doomed to end, was still very much real at the time,” Alejandro said of “Paalam Na.”
“I think many people related to it. Just because you break up with someone doesn’t mean you don’t still love them and want them to be in your life. It was a painful process to go from being a couple to being close friends, but with mutual respect and admiration, you can. That’s what Dingdong and I were able to do.”
To this day, Alejandro and Avanzado have remained good friends, even if they are now both married. She with Spanish journalist Carlos Santamaria for close to 10 years now and he with singer-actress Jessa Zaragoza for two decades this year.
Early last year, Alejandro and Avanzado even recorded a duet version of “Paalam Na,” that was released on Spotify.
“Paalam Na” became not just a huge OPM hit, but a multi-awarded song. It won the Awit Awards for Song of the Year and Best Ballad Recording in 1994. Admittedly, Alejandro was really proud when the song won awards.
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