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Real name: Princess Marie Velasco Birthday: August 17 Singer. Songwriter. Acoustic Pricess Princess loves playing and singing songs. Music totally gets her on the nerves and she can’t survive a day without it. Aside from music, she is in the field of marketing in the corporate world and a part-time college teacher. Princess possessed a voice that leaves everyone in a relaxed state. Being a music aficionada, she listens to almost all kind of music ranging from funk, rock to standards and jazz. She cites aThe Corrs, Plum, Jewel, Kelly Clarkson, Alanis Morisette as some of her musical influences. Though she mainly does light-pop music, she also had her professional trainings in jazz and bossa nova in her two previous bands. After MTV Unplugged, where the show presents singers rearranging songs into its acoustic version, this unique version became so popular since early 90’s. It is classified into two: the Latin beat called bossa nova or the striped down arrangement of pop hits like what Princess had been doing. The remaking of the song became a trend and as Filipinos responds positively to it, many record labels are looking for an acoustic artists who would somehow be able to pacify the needs of the music genres’ devotees. Equipped with vocals perfectly fitted for such undertaking, Vicor Records released Addicted To Acoustic, an 18-track collection album of some popular foreign hits modified acoustically. The voice behind the album is a relatively new, Princess Velasco. Princess is very successful in doing remakes especially in tracks that is almost impossible to warble by no uncommon musicians. But she proved her versatility in tracks like Right Now (Na Na Na) by Akon, I’m Yours by Jason Mraz, Paramore’s Decode and even the infectious danceable ditty of Beyonce, Single Ladies. The album launched Princess as a singer and her incredible voice entitled her to become the country’s newest ”Acoustic Princess”.

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