Retro is the eighth studio album of Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 singer-actress Regine Velasquez-Alcasid

Regine Velasquez

Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez , better known as Asia's Songbird, Regine Velasquez, is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer and TV host...

, released in 1996 through Polycosmic Records Inc.

PolyGram

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, under MCA-Phil

MCA Records

MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

 in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 and through Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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 under PolyGram Records

PolyGram

PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:...

 as pan-Asian studio album.

This album contains hit covers from the 70s and 80s like Andy Gibbs' I Can't Help It which is a duet with Remus Choy of Grasshopper

Grasshopper (band)

Grasshopper is a Hong Kong Cantopop boy group formed in 1982. The band consists of Edmond So Chi Wai, Calvin Choy Yat Chi and Remus Choy Yat Kit. Calvin and Remus are brothers and grew up with neighbour Edmond in a poor neighbourhood in Hong Kong. It was Remus who was interested in dancing and...

, Melissa Manchester

Melissa Manchester

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's Looking Through The Eyes Of Love and Foreigner

Foreigner (band)

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's I Want To Know What Love Is

I Want to Know What Love Is

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. Velasquez also did an acoustic version of Orleans

Orleans (band)

Orleans is an American pop-rock band best known for its hits "Dance with Me" , "Still the One", from the album Waking and Dreaming and "Love Takes Time" . The group's name evolved from the music it was playing at the time of their formation, which was inspired by Louisiana artists such as Allen...

's Dance With Me which is a duet with her mother, Teresita Velasquez.

Track listing

Album credits

Production

• Ronnie Ng – arranger (tracks 1 & 15)
• Beta Soul – arranger (track 2)
• Don Manalang – arranger (tracks 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13 & 14)
• Jeffrey Felix – arranger (tracks 5, 7, 8, 13 & 14)
• Jerry Joanino – arranger (tracks 6 & 10)
• Simon Chan – arranger (track 9)
• Dindo Aldecoa – arranger (tracks 10 & 12)