Enduring singer-songwriter Jose Mari Chan isn’t done giving out Christmas presents yet. Some days ago on cloudy Saturday afternoon, he hosted a special luncheon to recognize singers, arrangers and a host of other artists who collaborated on his “Going Home to Christmas” album, which officially reached Double Platinum status over the 2017 holidays.
While considered an icon in OPM for such hits as “Afterglow,” “Deep in My Heart,” “Can We Just Stop And Talk Awhile, ” and “Beautiful Girl” spanning the 1960s through the 2000s, Chan, in more recent years, found composing and recording Christmas songs into albums most fulfilling. To say that he succeeded in doing so would be an understatement what with his single “Christmas in Our Hearts,” his duet with daughter Liza, considered by Filipinos in the league of such classics as “Silent Night,” “The Christmas Song” or the much older “Ang Pasko Ay Sumapit.”