"Symphony of Life" is a song written by

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 worldwid ...

and

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 Tul ...

, 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

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for the song was directed by Yannick Saillet and had a colourful

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became 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

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arena with many other girls dressed in brown. Once the second verse kicks in, Arena is then shown laying on grass with pink flower petals scattered around her and girls dressed in leaves are dancing. The last fantasy scene shows Arena walking and then dancing in an

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land with giant snowballs surrounding her and dancers dressed in white. The rest of the video shows parts of Arena dancing in the different fantasy areas. The music video was well received being played on Australian music channels '' Video Hits'' and '' Rage''.

Track listings

Australian CD single # "Symphony of Life" # "Symphony of Life" (Metro mix 7-inch) # "Symphony of Life" ( Paulmac's extended Euroremix) # "Symphonie de l'âme" French CD single # "Symphonie de l'âme" (radio edit) – 4:03 # "Symphony of Life" (album version) – 4:45 # "Symphonie de l'âme" (Metro remix) – 4:12

Charts

Live cover

"Symphony of Life" was performed live during

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'' by eventual winner Casey Donovan on the Final 12 Australian Made theme night. Donovan received massive amounts of praise from the judges for this performance and she reprised the song at the grand finale at the Sydney Opera House where she was crowned the winner of the competition. The live version from the finale was used as a bonus track on Donovan's debut album '' For You''.

References

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