SARAH BRIGHTMAN - FLY TO PARADISE

FLY TO PARADISE

SARAH BRIGHTMAN

SONGWRITER: ERIC E WHITACRE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: HYMN

LABEL: DECCA

GENRE: CLASSICAL

YEAR: 2018

 

      Sarah Brightman(born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano singer and actress.

       Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 1981, she made her West End musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she later married. She went on to star in several West End and Broadway musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, where she originated the role of Christine Daaé. Her original London cast album of Phantom was released in CD format in 1987 and sold 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling cast album ever.

      After retiring from the stage and divorcing Lloyd Webber, Brightman resumed her music career with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson, this time as a classical crossover artist. She has been credited as the creator and remains among the most prominent performers of this genre, with worldwide sales of more than 25 million albums and two million DVDs, establishing herself as the world's best-selling soprano.

     Brightman's 1996 duet with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, "Time to Say Goodbye", topped the charts all over Europe and became the highest and fastest-selling single of all-time in Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for 14 consecutive weeks and sold over three million copies. It subsequently became an international success, selling 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all-time. She has collected over 200 gold and platinum record awards in 38 countries. In 2010, she was named by Billboard the fifth most influential and best-selling classical artist of the 2000s decade in the US and according to Nielsen SoundScan, she has sold 6.5million albums in the country.

     Hymn is the twelfth studio album by English soprano Sarah Brightman and first since 2013's Dreamchaser. The five-year gap between both studio albums marks Brightman's longest break between studio releases. This album marks Brightman's ninth studio collaboration with producer Frank Peterson. The album was released on 9 November 2018, entering at Nº 1 on both the Billboard Classical Crossover Albums and overall Classical Albums, making Brightman the female artist with the most Nº 1s in both charts.

      Brightman released her eleventh studio album Dreamchaser at the beginning of 2013. It marked a departure of her previous material by exploring new sounds and collaborating with producers Mike Hedges and Sally Herbert after twenty years of continuous work with Frank Peterson. The album gathered acclaim from critics, some considering it Brightman's strongest work to date. In order to promote her new material, Sarah embarked on a two-year world tour, under the name of "Dreamchaser World Tour". The concert tour consisted of 106 shows in twenty-three countries, becoming Brightman's second largest of her career. In 2015, Brightman was expected to travel to the International Space Station but cancelled the trip due to personal reasons.

         In 2016 and 2017, Brightman embarked on two more concert tours: Gala: An Evening with Sarah Brightman, and Royal Christmas Gala along Gregorian and special guests. Both concert tours served as a promotion of her greatest hits album Gala - The Collection. Recording of her new album took place during these two years.

And all she ever thinks about

Is being any other place than this

'Cause she remembers having wings

But she has forgotten what it's like

To feel a paradise of bliss

And all I want to do is fly

Just fly

And all I want to do is fly

Just fly

I want to fly

Into the sky

I want to fly to paradise

All through the night

Into the light

I want to fly to paradise

And all she ever thinks about

Is memories of swinging through the sky

'Cause she remembers having wings

But she's forgotten what it feels like to fly

And all I want to do is fly

Just fly

And all I want to do is fly

Just fly

I want to fly

Into the sky

I want to fly to paradise

All through the night

Into the light

I want to fly to paradise

When you look into the sky

You might catch her flying by

Flying by

All she wants to do is fly

On her way to paradise

Paradise.