Sanggar Mustika also pay tribute to the late Tan P. Ramlee with his song "Bunga Melor" and Toh Puan Rafeah Buang "Bisikan Hati".

The recording of Sanggar Mustika took place in January 2001 when Siti Nurhaliza launched her seventh album, Safa and completed in February 2002.

[3] Through this song, Siti wants to tell communities there that Malaysia is rich with various cultures, while saying: "I found this just very difficult while singing it in Kelantanese dialect, other languages such as Sabah and Sarawak was not a problem".

[4] According to Siti, she choose to sing desert, joget, kroncong, inang, canggung music and other songs that reworked.

[2] Three songs from Sanggar Mustika – "Nirmala", "Badarsila" and "Kurik Kundi" was released as the main singles and later made into music videos.

Both Zainal Alam Kadir of New Straits Times and Jad Mahidin of The Sunday Mail gave the album two and half stars.

[7][8] The same sentiment was echoed in reviews by Abie Abdullah of Harian Metro and Ellyna Ali of Berita Minggu.