Hope?

I'm such a big, big fan of Jim Brickman and his music. His songs are some of the most romantic I've ever heard, that they're almost always a part of any wedding I've attended. Even his lesser-known song In a Lover's Eyes, a song he asked Ariel Rivera to sing, is one of my favorites. For me, Jim Brickman is one, if not the best, musician in my generation.

You can just imagine my shock when I learned that one of his supposedly-composed songs, Hope, from the album of the same name, is actually one of my most favorite Filipino love songs! If is a song composed and sang by Nelson del Castillo in 1994. He's the same guy who composed and sang the song, You're My Best friend. I didn't believe it at first when I read about it, but when I listened to Hope, I knew I was listening to If.

Jim already apologized to Nelson and said it's "an honest mistake." Nelson del Castillo is not buying the apology though, and has already taken this to court.

From my standpoint, I would agree it to be an honest mistake if both songs are just similar in some measures, but the whole song? I feel really, really bad about this. Hope everything will turn out well.