Christmas in Our Hearts
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| Studio album by Jose Mari Chan | ||||
| Released | November 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1990 (See recording locations) |
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| Genre | Holiday, Adult Contemporary, Easy listening, Spiritual | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Universal | |||
| Producer | Jose Mari Chan | |||
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25th Anniversary Edition cover
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| Singles from Christmas in Our Hearts | ||||
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Christmas in Our Hearts is the seventh studio album and the first Christmas album by Filipino singer-songwriter and businessman Jose Mari Chan. It was released in November 1990 by Universal Records. The album sold over 600,000 units in the Philippines in 2006, certifying Double Diamond by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI). It is considered to be the first OPM album to surpass the Diamond status. It is currently the biggest-selling album in the Philippines, selling more than 800,000 copies to date. Due to the popularity of the song and album during the annual holiday season, Chan became known as "The Father of Philippine Christmas Music."
The album also features cover versions of "A Christmas Carol", "This Beautiful Day" and "Christmas Children" from the 1970 musical Scrooge.
The album has been re-released as a 25th Anniversary Edition on iTunes, Spotify and Spinnr on October 30, 2015.
According to Chan, the title track and first single of the album, Christmas in Our Hearts, was originally an arrangement titled Ang Tubig ay Buhay ("Water is Life"), based on a poem written by Chari Cruz-Zarate. He set the words to music, intending to make it a silver jubilee song for the Assumption High School Class of 1963. He described Ang Tubig ay Buhay as a very beautiful poem, which is why he found it easy to compose a tune for it:
It was a catchy, pretty melody, which I felt was too precious to use only for a Class Homecoming. So I decided to turn it into a Christmas song.
Before production started, Chan had attended Mass at Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati, when songwriter Rina Canizal knocked on his car window. Canizal later wrote the words of "Christmas in Our Hearts" using Chan's melody for Ang Tubig ay Buhay.
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