Rachelle Ann Go is now gearing for more success with her second album entitled I Care. It is the result of the tight collaboration of an international line-up of producers, songwriters, arrangers and engineers. Each contribution is meant to showcase the vocal artistry of the 19-year-old “Search for a Star” champion who has now come to her own as one of the country’s finest performers.

The first single release is If You Walk Away. Written by Todd Cerney and Skip Adams, the power ballad was produced by Christian de Walden and Carlo Nasi. De Walden, one of the top producers in Europe and North and South America, came to the Philippines for the recording sessions at Viva Entertainment’s Amerasian Studios in Quezon City. Along with him came Luca Vittori, one of Italy’s leading engineers to record and mix several songs for Rachelle Ann’s album.

Aside from If You Walk Away, Christian and Luca also did the ballad Baby It’s Time and the dance cuts Number One, Palm Reader, The Sweetest Vice and Good Love. De Walden also produced Days to Come but the song was mixed at the Studio di Ripetta in Rome by Vanni G and David Bacon, two of the hottest DJs in Italy’s trendy club scene.

The title cut I Care was composed and produced by Vehnee Saturno. Vehnee gave Rachelle Ann From the Start, one of the hits from her first album. This was also the song that won her the Silver Prize at the 7th Shanghai Asia Music Festival last year and which won the Best Composition award in the competition. Last September, Vehnee and Rachelle Ann won First Prize in the Best Own Country Song category of the Astana Song Festival held in Kazakhstan for her interpretation of Saturno’s Isang Lahi.

The other songs in the album are Angel, composed by Florian Lormes and Katharina Aliaga Leiva of Germany and Thank You written by singer/composer Yman, both produced by Alwyn Cruz; It Wasn’t Enough and Windows of My Heart, a duet with Mark Bautista, both written and produced by Charles Williams of California; Bakit, a composition by actor Chuckie Dreyfus; Strange are the Ways of Love by Ferdinand Dimadura; and a cover of Beverly Craven’s Promise Me, produced by Eugene Villaluz.

Rachelle Ann celebrated Christmas 2004 with a Platinum Record Award for over 30,000 copies sold by her self-titled album. This has since turned double platinum and produced the hits Don’t Cry Out Loud, You and Me, We Wanted It All, a duet with Christian Bautista, When You Find Your Voice, From the Start and Here I am Again.

Among her other notable accomplishments this year were her successful solo concert debut in Rachelle Ann Go, the Ultimate Champion which was held at the Aliw Theater last April 29 and her win as the People’s Choice for Favorite Female Artist at the 2005 MTV Pilipinas Video Music Awards for her rendition of Love of My Life. Written and produced by Jay Durias of South Border, the song is included in her first album.

Rachelle Ann Go’s sophomore album is sponsored by Lulu Castagnette. I Care is available in your favorite record bars.