"Till I Loved You" is a song from the never-staged musical '' Goya: A Life in Song'', based on the life of the Spanish artist

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. It was written by American composer

Maury Yeston Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer, lyricist and music theorist. He is known as the initiator of new Broadway musicals and writing their music and lyrics, as well as a classical orchestral and ballet composer, Yale Uni ...

. The original was sung by

tenor A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is wide ...

Plácido Domingo José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French ...

and American singer

Dionne Warwick Marie Dionne Warwick (; born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television host. Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest U.S. hit makers between 1955 and 1999, based on her chart history on ''Billboards Hot 100 pop singles ch ...

. It was subsequently released as a single by Domingo with another collaborator to the album,

Jennifer Rush Jennifer Rush (born Heidi Stern; September 28, 1960) is an American pop and rock singer. She achieved success during the mid-1980s with several singles and studio albums including the million-selling single " The Power of Love", which she co-wr ...

. The song reached number 24 on the UK Charts in 1989, and was featured on the concept album of the musical. It was covered (although released first) as a duet by

Barbra Streisand Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awar ...

and Don Johnson, and appeared on Streisand's

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-selling 1988 album of the same name, and later on her 2002 compilation, ''

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.'' As a single, it reached number 16 in the United Kingdom, number 25 in the United States and number 22 on the Spain Top 40 Radio chart. It also reached number 3 on ''Billboard'''s Adult Contemporary survey. Domingo also recorded a Spanish-language single of the song with

Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan (; born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García; born 1 September 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, actress, and businesswoman. Estefan is a seven-time Grammy Award winner, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and has bee ...

titled "Hasta amarte" and a Portuguese version, "Apaixonou", with

Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, better known as Simone, is a Brazilian singer of Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) who has recorded more than 30 albums. Biography Simone was born on December 25, 1949, in Salvador, Bahia, as the seventh daughter ...

. "Hasta amarte" peaked at number 8 on ''Billboard's'' Hot Latin Songs chart. Hover over the single's chart listing for "peak performance" and "wks on chart" information.

Charts

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