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Sitti Katrina Baiddin Navarro-Ramirez (born November 29, 1984 in Las Piñas), known professionally as Sitti, is a Filipino singer. After releasing her first album, Café Bossa, in 2006, other bossa nova acts in the Philippines followed. Navarro was also featured in the segment "A.S.A.P. Sessionistas" of the variety show ASAP.


Early life
Sitti Navarro was born to lawyer Rolando Navarro and Lydia Baiddin, in Las Piñas, . Sitti is of Sama and Tausūg descent. She identifies herself as being Jama Mapun (Sama Kagayan), one of the subgroups in Tawi-Tawi. She graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman in April 2005 with a degree in Business Economics and was a dean's lister at said university. In high school, she was editor-in-chief of the school paper and graduated as valedictorian of her class at Saint Francis of Assisi College, Las Piñas Campus.

In college, she was an active member of the Local Committee where she was the Vice President for Outgoing Exchange from 2003 to 2004. She was also a member of the Organization of Business Economics Majors (OBEM) in UP Diliman.

Sitti has won two awards: the title of Miss Visayas 2001 in the Miss Travel Girl Pageant, and the first runner-up in the search for "Miss Silka" where she was also named Miss Friendship and Best in Swimwear.


Musical career
Sitti has been performing since the age of 16. In 2004, MTV Philippines started MTV Supahstar: D' Super Search, where Sitti was one of the winners. She also appeared in the group's music videos. It led to her recording contract.

Her debut album, Café Bossa, was released in 2006. Four songs have been released': "Tattooed on My Mind", a of the D'Sound hit; "Hey Look at the Sun", "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love", and "Para sa Akin". A live album, Sitti Live!, was released in late 2006, and Café Bossa was with a in 2007.

Sitti collaborated with to release Sitti in the Mix - The Dense Modesto Remixes, a collection of songs from Café Bossa that were made into - songs with the help of DJ Dense Modesto, in mid-2007, before the release of her second album My Bossa Nova, which focuses on more recent songs. My Bossa Nova was re-released in mid-2008 with a VCD of Sitti Live! 2 called My Bossa Nova Live! and is now a certified Platinum album at the moment.

In 2008, Sitti released her first , Ngayong Pasko. Unlike her past albums, this album is purely a album with only one original song, the carrier single and title of the album, . This album also has reached the Gold status in less than a month after its release.

Sitti collaborated with singer Christian Bautista for his album Captured for a duet of the song of the same title. They once again collaborated for Sitti's Christmas album on the song "Baby It's Cold Outside".

In 2009, Sitti released her third studio album entitled "Contagious", which contains an original which was also the carrier single, "Is This Love", co-penned by Andrew Fromm, who also penned Christian Bautista's hit song, "The Way You Look at Me".

On March 8, 2012, she released her fifth studio album, Sessions, which spawned two singles; "Sino'ng Mag-aakala" and "Wag Mo Na Munang Sabihin". The album allowed her to experiment with other genres apart from bossa nova.

In the first Tokyo-Manila Jazz and Arts Festival, Sitti announced that her record label's Japanese branch will release one of her albums there, and that the label will decide on its release date. The album, released in May 2012 on and in October 2012 on stores, entitled Bossa Covers.

In 2013, she participated in the Philippines' highly esteemed Elements National Music Camp, where she was mentored by the likes of , , and .

On June 25, 2013, it was announced that she will be entering the second Philippine Popular Music Festival as an interpreter with for the song called "Pansamantagal" written by Jungee Marcelo.


Television work
Sitti was also co-host of Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 on Studio 23, alongside , ending with the victory of Beatriz Saw.

She ventured into acting in Judy Ann Santos' primetime teleserye, , where she portrayed Tere, an aspiring lounge singer. Sitti was featured in 's Your Song, where her song "Ikaw Lamang" was the single for the episode she acted in with .

She also had a few hosting stints in Studio 23 such as Pinoy Dream Academy and Travel Time.

Sitti is currently a semi-regular on ABS-CBN's top-rating Sunday variety show, ASAP '09. She appears on a segment called ASAP Sessionistas together with , , , and .


Stage acting
Sitti was part of Katy! The Musical which was staged on December 27, 2008 at Harbor Garden Tent Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila wherein she played as Mary Walter. Alongside her was , , Mitch Valdez, Dulce, Eugene Villaluz, , , , , , Frenchie Dy, , and .

In 2009, Sitti played the role of "Martha" in the Philippine staging of the -winning, 19th century stage drama Spring Awakening from Atlantis Productions. Spring Awakening was directed by Chari Arespacochaga and features the set design of Tuxqs Rutaquio, choreography by Dexter Santos, costume design by Rajo Laurel, lights design by Voltaire de Jesus and musical direction by Jojo Malferari.


Personal life
She is married to Joey Ramirez and has two daughters. She is a practicing Christian.


Discography

Albums

Studio albums
2006Café Bossa
  • PHI: 2× Platinum
2007My Bossa Nova
  • Released: August 24, 2007
  • Label: Warner Music Philippines
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
  • PHI: Gold
2008
  • Released: October 30, 2008
  • Label: Warner Music Philippines
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
  • PHI: Platinum
2009Contagious
  • Released: June 26, 2009
  • Label: Warner Music Philippines
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
2011Sessions
  • Released: March 4, 2011
  • Label: Warner Music Philippines
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
2012Bossa Covers
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: Warner Music Philippines
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
2014Bossa Love
  • Released: January 18, 2014
  • Label:
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming


Live albums
2006Sitti Live!
  • Released: September 15, 2006
  • Label: Warner Music Philippines
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
  • PHI: Gold
2008My Bossa Nova Live!
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Warner Music Philippines
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
  • PHI: Platinum


Remix albums
2007
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Warner Music Philippines,
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming


Singles
  • "Para sa Akin" (2006) (also covered by Jason Dhakal)


Filmography
2006ASAPHerself2006—present
Pinoy Dream Academy (season 1)HerselfStudio 23 host
2007Pinoy Big Brother (season 2)HerselfStudio 23 host
TereRecurring role
2009Squalor
2010ShowtimeHerselfGuest judge
2012Susan SamaniegoSpecial Guest
2016HerselfGuest Performer


Awards
, "TitikPilipino.com", Retrieved 2008-01-29

"The 38th Box-Office Entertainment Awards (Part 2)" . Pep.ph. Retrieved 2014-05-24.


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