Total recall Part 1

One of the biggest OPM songs of the early aughts was recently resurrected via the all-covers “SWABE” album, with Aiza Seguerra’s “Pagdating Ng Panahon,” with no less than a hitmaker of the day taking on the challenge of besting the original.

- PUNCH LIWANAG

Tough job. As the song is an absolute biggie. I would know, because I had a front-row, 'second-hand account' from someone in the thick of it of how the song went, as the adage goes, from zero to hero.

I remember it as if it were yesterday. Uh-oh! Flashback alert! Before “Pagdating Ng Panahon” was released in 2001, Aiza (now identified as Ice Seguerra) was figuratively in showbiz limbo.

First, making a name as an adorable little tyke in the late 80s "Eat Bulaga," Aiza was already “old” to keep doing the same antics on TV. Yet, she’s young and hasn’t proven herself, other than what she was initially known for, to be taken seriously. It's every kid celebrity’s dilemma: the first sign of puberty, and the career disappears. Luckily for Aiza, music was in her sphere. While she “stopped” being a regular at Eat Bulaga, when she did appear, it was with an acoustic guitar strapped to her back, singing solo songs or doing duets with Vic Sotto.