Olivia Ong - .
Olivia Ong – .
Photographer - ©Steven Meisel
Songwriters – Bert Kaempfert (music); Milt Gabler (lyrics)
Album - A Girl Meets Bossa Nova 2 (2006)
Label - S2S inc.
___ “L-O-V-E“ is a song recorded by Nat King Cole in 1965, for his album of the same name (1965). The song had previously appeared an instrumental track on Kaempfert’s album Blue Midnight (1964).
___ Olivia Ong is a Singaporean singer who found success in Japan with English-language renditions of bossa nova classics. Born on October 2, 1985, the multilingual singer began her career at age 15 after winning a singing contest and being awarded a recording contract in Japan in 2001. Initially, she performed as a member of the J-pop group Mirai. Several years later, she made her solo debut at age 19 with the album A Girl Meets Bossa Nova (2005), an English-language collection of bossa nova classics intended for the Japanese market. While Ong performed other music in later years, her bossa novas proved especially pop