Ely Buendia’s sister gets another shot at success

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Singer songwriter Lally Buendia also known as Domino, shakes hands with MCA Music's President Ricky Ilacad, as she joins MCA Music's top-notch artists and signs for the label. Held at the MCA Music office in Ortigas, Mandaluyong city, east of Manila on 15 May 2012. (George Calvelo/NPPA Images)She did release an album of her own in 2003, to obviously less than stellar results. But that kind of setback has not discouraged the sister of rock icon Ely Buendia to give it another go.

She used the stage name Domino back then, but the 32-year-old Lally Buendia is upbeat about her chances of reaching a wider audience this time around. She has signed with MCA Music, a major label she hopes will push her new album aggressively. She blames bad promotions as one of the reasons her debut album "Fair Tales" did not seep into public consciousness.
Lally recently inked her new MCA recording contract on the same day the label also signed up her brother's band, Pupil.  It will be recalled that Pupil was briefly without a record label when Sony Music Philippines, the band's previous label, closed shop earlier this year.
'Fresh electro pop sound'
For her first outing with MCA, Lally is working on an album featuring her compositions which insiders describe as "deep songwriting wrapped in a fresh