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Vous êtes Toujours Là
''Vous êtes toujours là'' is the first live album by Australian singer Tina Arena released in 2003 primarily in French-speaking Europe. It includes the studio duet with Jay, "Je te retrouve un peu" which was the only single released from the album in France. The bonus track "Never (Past Tense)" was released internationally and reached number one on the US Billboard Dance Airplay chart. The title of the album is an extrapolation on the title of single " Tu es toujours là", featured on the French version of previous album '' Just Me''. The latter means "You're always there" in the singular and is aimed at a loved one, while the former has the same meaning in the plural, implying the singer addresses a group of people, in this case her fans, thanking them for their support. The 13 live tracks featured on the record were recorded at Paris' L'Olympia concert hall, however they do not appear on the album in the order they were performed on stage. This is the second album to feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Arena
Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena (born 1 November 1967) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest-selling artists and has sold over 10 million records worldwide. Arena is multilingual, singing and recording in English, Italian, French and Spanish. Arena has earned several international and national awards, including a BRIT Award, seven ARIA Awards and two World Music Awards for Best-selling Australian Artist (1996, 2000). In 2001, she was awarded a BMI Foundation Songwriting Award (Broadcast Music Inc) by the American performance rights organisation for co-writing "Burn" with Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel. In 2011, Arena became the first Australian to be awarded a knighthood of the French National Order of National Merit, presented by the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, for her contributions to French culture, and ceremonially awarded by Frédéric Mitterrand, the Minister of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Jo Zarb
Marie-Jo Zarb is a French lyricist, director and producer. Career After literature studies, Marie-Jo Zarb meets Bruno Pelletier, the Québécois people, francophone Quebecer singer, in 1993, and writes many songs for him. Thanks to this first experience, she works with Native (band), Native, a French band, and with Francis Lai for the musical ''Les Sales Gosses''. She gets into Sony Music Entertainment, Sony, the record company, and writes for Herbert Léonard, Larusso and the Sol En Si artists; among others.Marie-Jo Zarb discogs.com, 13 February 2014 In 2000, she meets Pascal Obispo, Lionel Florence, gets into ''Atletico'' songwriters pole, where she writes, in particular for Patrick Fiori, Lââm, Julie Zenatti, Tina Arena, Patricia Kaas, Florent Pagny. In 2009, she is involved in the French adaptati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Child
John Charles Barrett (born October 28, 1953), known professionally as Desmond Child, is an American songwriter and producer. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. His hits as a songwriter include Kiss's "I Was Made for Lovin' You"; Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' "I Hate Myself for Loving You"; Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", " Bad Medicine", and "Born to Be My Baby "; Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady), "Angel", " What It Takes" and "Crazy"; Cher's "We All Sleep Alone" and "Just Like Jesse James"; Alice Cooper's "Poison"; Michael Bolton's "How Can We Be Lovers?"; and Ricky Martin's "The Cup of Life" and "Livin' la Vida Loca". Career Child's career started when he formed an R&B-influenced pop rock band, Desmond Child & Rouge in 1975 with singers Myriam Valle, Maria Vidal, and Diana Grasselli, backed by hired musicians. The band was known for their inclusion on the soundtrack to '' The Warriors'' in 1979, with the song "Last o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chains (Tina Arena Song)
"Chains" is a song by Australian singer Tina Arena from her third studio album, ''Don't Ask'' (1994). It was composed by Arena, Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel and produced by David Tyson. "Chains" peaked at number four on Australia's ARIA Singles Chart, reached number six in the United Kingdom, and charted well throughout Europe, earning her numerous awards in the process. The power ballad was also a hit in North America, peaking at number 38 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 20 on the Canadian ''RPM'' Top Singles chart. The track was re-released featuring Jessica Mauboy and the Veronicas following a rendition of the track at the 2015 ARIA Awards where Arena was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Critical reception The song received favorable reviews from most music critics. Scottish newspaper ''Aberdeen Press and Journal'' praised Arena's "stunning voice". AllMusic editor Kelvin Hayes called it a "stellar" "showcase single". Larry Flick from ''Billboard'' described i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Jones (Foreigner)
Michael Leslie Jones (born 27 December 1944) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known as the last remaining original member of the British-American rock band Foreigner. Prior to Foreigner, he was in the band Spooky Tooth. Early life Michael Leslie Jones was born on 27 December 1944 in Portsmouth, England. Jones started playing guitar at an early age, and decided to pursue a career in music. Career He began his professional music career in the early 1960s as a member of the band Nero and the Gladiators, who scored two minor British hit singles in 1961. After the demise of Nero and the Gladiators, Jones worked as a songwriter and session musician in France for such artists as Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, and Johnny Hallyday ("The French Elvis"), for whom he wrote many songs, including "Je suis né dans la rue" and "À tout casser" (which features Jimmy Page on guitar). When The Beatles toured France in 1964, they befriended Jones when Hallyday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Want To Know What Love Is
"I Want to Know What Love Is" is a power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner. It was released in November 1984 as the lead single from their fifth album, ''Agent Provocateur''. The song hit number one in both the United Kingdom and the United States and is the group's biggest hit to date. It remains one of the band's best-known songs and most enduring radio hits, charting in the top 25 in 2000, 2001, and 2002 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart. "I Want to Know What Love Is" has continued to garner critical acclaim, and is listed as one of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's greatest songs of all time at number 476 in 2004 and at number 479 in 2010. The song is also featured in a number of films. Song information "I Want to Know What Love Is" was the first single released from Foreigner's album ''Agent Provocateur'' (1984). It is credited to Mick Jones, although an uncredited portion (somewhere between 5% according to Jones and 35% according ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Jennings
Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings (born June 27, 1944) is an American lyricist. He is popularly known for writing the lyrics for the songs "Tears in Heaven" and "My Heart Will Go On". He has been inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and has won several awards including three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards. Life and education Jennings was born in Kilgore, Texas. He attended school near Tyler, Texas in the Chapel Hill Independent School District. He graduated from Tyler Junior College and taught English at the college. In 1967, Jennings earned his B.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University, located in Nacogdoches, Texas. He then taught at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire for three years. Career Jennings has written for a variety of artists, including Steve Winwood, Whitney Houston, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Joe Sample, Rodney Crowell, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett, Barry Manilow and Roy Orbison. With Steve Winwood, Jennings wrote a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Horner
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American composer. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner's first film score was in 1979 for '' The Lady in Red'', but he did not establish himself as an eminent film composer until his work on the 1982 film '' Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''. His score for James Cameron's ''Titanic'' is the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's ''Avatar''. Horner also scored other notable films including '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' (1984), ''The Name of the Rose'' (1986), ''Aliens'' (1986), Willow (1988), ''Field of Dreams'' (1989), ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'' (1989), ''The Rocketeer'' (1991), '' Braveheart'' (1995), ''The Mask of Zorro'' (1998), '' Deep Impact'' (1998), '' A Beautiful Mind'' (2001) and ''The Amazing Spider-Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter-John Vettese
Peter-John Vettese (born 15 August 1956 in Scotland), also known as Peter Vettese, is a Scottish keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. Vettese is perhaps best known for being the keyboardist for progressive rock band Jethro Tull for most of the 1980s. Early life Peter Vettese grew up in a musical family in Brechin, Angus, Scotland. He began his music studies with piano lessons at the age of 4. At 9, he began playing in public with his father's band. He left home at 17 to join one of the UK's biggest dance hall Big Bands, but was fired for rehearsing in company time with his own group. He then formed the jazz fusion group Solaris with guitarist Jim Condie, and toured Scotland and the US. He was playing in pubs and clubs in Scotland when he saw an advertisement for keyboard players in the music newspaper ''Melody Maker'', which turned out to be from the progressive rock band Jethro Tull. Jethro Tull Vettese joined Jethro Tull in 1982 for the recording of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphony Of Life
"Symphony of Life" is a song written by Tina Arena and Peter-John Vettese, produced by Vettese for Arena's fourth album, '' Just Me'' (2001). It was released as the album's third single in Australia on 16 September 2002. The song became Arena's fifth top-10 single in Australia and her sixth top-50 single in France, where the song was recorded in French under the title "Symphonie de l'âme". Arena stated that the song challenged her and that she is proud of the song. Content and writing In the inside cover of her 2004 greatest hits album, Arena states: Music video The music video for the song was directed by Yannick Saillet and had a colourful fantasy theme to the 7-inch Metro Mix version of the song. The video opens up to Arena walking on water wearing a brown dress and them comes across two girls in blue dresses dancing in pink flowers. The next scene, the chorus, shows Arena walking and dancing in a desert arena with many other girls dressed in brown. Once the second verse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burn (Tina Arena Song)
"Burn" is a song written by Tina Arena, Pam Reswick, and Steve Werfel for Arena's third album, '' In Deep'' (1997). The song was successful in her native Australia, reaching number two on the ARIA Singles Chart and earning a gold sales certification. At the time of its release, "Burn" was Australia's fastest-added single to radio. Arena also recorded the song in Italian, titled "Ti voglio qui". It was released as a single in several European countries. In 2000, "Burn" was covered by American country music singer Jo Dee Messina and her version reached number two on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Critical reception A reviewer from ''Billboard'' magazine described "Burn" as a "beautiful love song", adding that Arena "has glorious pipes, a charismatic presence, and the song-writing savvy of a lifelong hitmaker." ''Sunday Mirror'' commented, "She's got a huge pair of lungs for a tiny lass, and this power ballad fair simmers." Music video A music video was made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Goldman (french Songwriter)
Robert Goldman (born 1953) is a French songwriter. He was born in Paris, the son of Alter Mojze Goldman and Ruth Ambrunn who were Jewish French Resistance, Resistance fighters during the Second World War. He is the younger brother of Jean-Jacques Goldman and half-brother of Pierre Goldman. He has written more than 50 songs for many French-speaking singers such as Céline Dion. He often signed J Kapler. Songs composed by Robert Goldman/J.Kapler Vanessa Amorosi *"Champagne, Champagne" (B.O Absolument fabuleux, 2001) France D'Amour *Ce qui me reste de toi (France d'Amour, 2002) *Je n'irai pas ailleurs (France d'Amour, 2002) *Le bonheur me fait peur (France d'Amour, 2002) *Quand je me love en toi (France d'Amour, 2002) *Que des mots (France d'Amour, 2002) *Vous étiez (France d'Amour, 2002) Lisa Angell *N'oubliez pas (2015) Tina Arena *Aller plus haut (In deep, 1999) *S'il faut prier (Un Autre Univers, 2005) *Tu aurais dû me dire (Un Autre Univers, 2005) Chimène Badi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
