CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU
ANGELINA JORDAN
SONGWRITERS: GEORGE
DAVID WEISS; LUIGI CREATORE & HUGO PERETTI
COUNTRY: NORWAY
ALBUM: IT’S MAGIC
LABEL: DISCOGS
GENRE: ROCKABILLY
YEAR: 2018
Angelina Jordan (born Angelina Jordan Astar
on 10 January 2006) is a Norwegian child singer whose audition for the 2014 season of Norway's Got Talent at the age of seven, singing "Gloomy Sunday"
in the style of Billie Holiday,
became a viral video online, and led to worldwide press coverage. She went on to win the
competition (at eight) with her performance of George Gershwin's
"Summertime". Since then she has worked to
raise millions of dollars on behalf of environmental causes and children's
charities around the world. She always performs barefoot, after befriending a
young shoeless girl while traveling when she was six years old. Jordan wrote a
book about the experience and became the youngest published author in Norway.
Jordan
has released multiple digital singles, two EPs, and one album called It's
Magic. She appeared on the first season of Little Big Shots in 2016, and the second season of America's Got Talent: The Champions in 2020.
In August 2020, her manager (her uncle,
Michael Astar) announced that she has signed with Republic Records.
After Jordan's performances on Norway's
Got Talent went viral online, she was featured in Time,
Daily Mirror,
People,
and other news outlets around the world. She also realized a personal ambition
by performing for Peace Prize recipients Malala
Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
In September 2014, she performed "Fly
Me to the Moon" on the US television show The
View, bringing her wider fame in the United
States. She also performed on several TV 2 programs in Norway over the next few years, including multiple
appearances on Allsang på Grensen (Singalong at the Border, referring to
the border fortress of Fredriksten where outdoor concerts are held) and on TV4 in Sweden.
Jordan had a small guest role in the final
episode of the Netflix series Lilyhammer,
playing a girl who sings in a bar.
In April 2016, she performed "Fly Me to
the Moon" on the first season of the noncompetitive children's talent show
Little Big Shots.
A year later she performed "What a Difference a Day Makes" on
the UK version of the show.
In December 2016, she performed on Alan Walker is Heading Home, a live
concert broadcast from Bergen, Norway, where she sang Walker's songs "Sing Me to Sleep"
and "Faded".
On 27 June 2018, Jordan performed "Fly
Me to the Moon" for Quincy Jones in The O2 Arena in London, as part of his 85th birthday celebration, and also joined
with other singers to perform "Man
in the Mirror" to close the show.
In 2019, Jordan performed for former presidente
Barack Obama and other public figures at the Brilliant Minds conference in
Stockholm.
In 2020, she competed in the second season of
America's Got Talent: The Champions. Her
first appearance on the show, singing an original arrangement of Queen's
"Bohemian Rhapsody",
received a "golden buzzer" from judge Heidi Klum (meaning that Jordan would pass directly into the finals). As with
her Norway's Got Talent audition six years earlier, a video of Jordan's
performance began to go viral, quickly reaching 10 million views on YouTube. The
performance also garnered praise from Queen's official Twitter account. Shortly afterwards, the video was taken downand Jordan
released a studio version of the same arrangement under her own copyright. Jordan's
second performance (in the finals), a similarly reworked "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road",
was also well received, but she did not make the top 5.
"Can't Help Falling in Love" is a
song recorded by American singer Elvis
Presley for the album Blue Hawaii (1961). It was written by Hugo Peretti,
Luigi Creatore,
and George
David Weiss and published by Gladys Music, Inc. The
melody is based on "Plaisir
d'amour", a popular French love song composed
in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide
Martini. The song was initially written for a woman as "Can't
Help Falling in Love with Him", which explains the first and third line
ending on "in" and "sin" rather than words rhyming with
"you".
"Can't Help Falling in Love" was
featured in Presley's 1961 film Blue
Hawaii. During the following four decades, it has
been recorded by numerous other artists, including Bob Dylan on his 1973 album Dylan,
Tom Smothers,
Swedish pop group A-Teens, and the
British reggae group UB40, whose
1993 version topped the U.S. and UK charts.
NOTE:
I RECEIVED THE INDICATION, ABOUT THIS SMALL GREAT SINGER ANGELINA JORDAN, FROM
MY COUSIN ISABEL SANTOS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUGGESTION, FANTASTIC. HERE
IT IS!!!
Wise men say
Only fools rush in
But I can't help
Falling in love with you
Shall I stay?
Would it be a sin
If I can't help
Falling in love with you?
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand
Take my whole life too
For I can't help
Falling in love with you
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand
Take my whole life too
For I can't help
Falling in love with you
For I can't help
Falling in love with you.