Kitchie Nadal

Biography

Anna Katrina "Kitchie" Dumilon Nadal-López (born September 16, 1980) is a Filipina singer-songwriter who was formerly the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band, Mojofly. Her popularity in the female OPM niche grew after she released a self-titled solo album featuring her chart-topping single, "Huwag na Huwag Mong Sasabihin". Her debut self-titled album Kitchie Nadal debuted at number 4 on the Philippine Albums Chart, and after a year end the album climbed up at number 1 with growing sales the album was certified 7×Platinum by PARI with sales of 214,800 physical CD album copies in the Philippines.

Career

In 2004, Nadal revived a Carpenters song, "Merry Christmas Darling" from the Warner Philippines Christmas album, The Warner Music Philippines All-Stars Christmas Collection.
In 2005, to support the United Nations Millennium Campaign, Nadal and 26 other Filipino artists contributed to the album entitled Tayo Tayo Rin Sa 2015 - Sing the Songs. Find your Voice. Change the World. It's your Choice, released by the United Nations (in the Philippines).
March 2008 saw Nadal releasing her second album Love Letter×Love Letter25 July 2008 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks1Wide Awake3:502Armour Bearer3:133Unconditional Love3:404Iniibig Kita4:165Grace3:586Walk On Water3:277Tadhana4:028Takip Silim3:059Love Letter4:2810Lala Land3:1111Apple Of The Eye (Kiss Me Goodbye)3:2412Firefly3:1713Highway4:0514Beautiful Jesus4:2815Ephesians 3:200:46 with 17 all original tracks. Her latest single Highway, which was used for Caltex, had extensive radio airplay.
Nadal's interpretation of Iniibig Kita has been included in ABS-CBN's first tele-epiko Rounin. In 2008, ABS-CBN picked her again to revive Himala (a Rivermaya original), as the supposed theme song for the soap Humingi Ako Sa Langit (retitled as Habang May Buhay).
She formerly endorsed multinational gas company Caltex. Nadal appeared in a Caltex commercial along with other international musicians.
In 2025, Nadal returned to the Philippines to hold her first solo concert, titled "New Ground×New Ground17 June 2025 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 7 tracks1Run4:012You're Worthy4:163Fire4:254Same Ground4:275Huwag Na Huwag Mong Sasabihin3:596Bulong3:417Landas3:42", which was held at the Araneta Coliseum on June 21.

Personal life

Nadal is an alumna of St. Scholastica's College, Manila. She also completed a double degree major in education and psychology at De La Salle University-Manila.
She married Spanish journalist Carlos López on February 26, 2015 in Tagaytay. They have two children. In 2017, she and her family moved to Spain, and have since resided in Madrid.

Collaboration albums that include Kitchie Nadal

Tunog Acoustic 1 to 4 (Warner Music Philippines, 2003–2006)
Acoustic Night Live 2 (Viva Records, 2004)
Perfectly Acoustic 2 (Octoarts Music Philippines, 2004)
All-Star Christmas Collection (Warner Music Philippines, 2004)
The MDG Album: Tayo Tayo Rin Sa 2015 (UN Philippines, 2005)
Supersize Rock (Warner Music Philippines, 2005)
Ultraelectromagneticjam!: The Music Of The Eraserheads (Sony BMG Music Philippines, 2005)
Kami nAPO muna: A Tribute to APO (Universal Records, 2006)
The Best Of Manila Sound: Hopia Mani Popcorn (Viva Records, 2006)
Mga Awit ng Puso: The Best of GMA Themes Vol. 2 (GMA Music, 2006)
I-Star 15: The Best of Alternative & Rock (Star Music, 2010)

Singles

Original songs:

"Bulong×Bulong30 May 2025 · SingleSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 1 track1Bulong3:41!!!" (later covered by Jikamarie)
"Fire"
"Huwag Na Huwag Mong Sasabihin" (later covered by Michael V. (as a parody song), SUD and Lola Amour)
"Majika" (original soundtrack for the GMA 7 TV series Majika)
"Malaya×Malaya2012 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 9 tracks1Simula Ngayon2Malaya3Salita4Hilom5With You6Naghihintay7Isaac8Love Letter9Malaya (remix)"
"Run"
"Same Ground" (also covered by Rangel)
"Simula Ngayon"
"Wandering Stars×Wandering Stars27 May 2017 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 1 track1Wandering Stars3:48"
"Soundtrip"
Cover versions:

"Ligaya" (originally by Eraserheads, later also covered by Mayonnaise)
"Merry Christmas Darling" (originally by The Carpenters)
"Pag-Ibig" (originally by APO Hiking Society, also covered by Regine Velasquez-Alcasid for a Nestlé ad)
"Pers-Labs" (originally by Cinderella, later covered by Charlie Green)

Collaborations

Additional vocals for Ilog for Rivermaya's album Isang Ugat, Isang Dugo, 2006
Greatest Day - duet with an old version by Charlene Deslate and Harlene Delgado and a new version by Anja Aguilar and Marika Sasaki, a single written for Sunsilk (Unilever Philippines), 2007
Makulay Na Buhay - Kitchie wrote the theme song for the GMA TV show I Luv NY, sung by Jolina Magdangal.
In A Big Way - a duet with European pop/rock band INSIGHT. There are two versions of this song in the album LOVE LETTER×Love Letter25 July 2008 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks1Wide Awake3:502Armour Bearer3:133Unconditional Love3:404Iniibig Kita4:165Grace3:586Walk On Water3:277Tadhana4:028Takip Silim3:059Love Letter4:2810Lala Land3:1111Apple Of The Eye (Kiss Me Goodbye)3:2412Firefly3:1713Highway4:0514Beautiful Jesus4:2815Ephesians 3:200:46, the Kitchie Nadal version and the Insight version.
Walk On Water - Akshai Sarin is a co-writer and producer
Tadhana - Kitchie shares writing credits with Jack Rufo
Idoy, Uday - Kitchie and Bullet Dumas perform Dumas' arrangement of the traditional Waray song.