LOVE IS FOUND

SADE ADU

SONGWRITER: SADE ADU

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 2011

 

           Sade (/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/shah-DAY) are an English band, formed in London in 1982 and named after their lead singer, Sade Adu. Three of their members were originally from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Their music features elements of soul, quiet storm, smooth jazz and sophisti-pop.

            The band's debut studio album, Diamond Life (1984), reached number two on the UK Album Chart, selling over 1.2 million copies and won the Brit Award for Best British Album in 1985. The album was also a hit internationally, reaching number one in several countries and the top ten in the United States, where it has sold four million copies to date. In late 1985, the band released their second studio effort Promise, which peaked at number one in both the United Kingdom and the US. It was certified double platinum in the UK and quadruple platinum in the US. In 1986 Sade won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Their fifth studio album, Lovers Rock (2000), won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Their sixth studio album, Soldier of Love (2010), peaked at number four in the UK and number one in the US. In 2011, the band won their fourth Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

         Sade's US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and have sold more than 75 million records worldwide to date. The band were ranked at No. 50 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".

           The Ultimate Collection is the second greatest hits album by English band Sade. It was released on 29 April 2011 by RCA Records. The album includes several singles from the band's career, including "Your Love Is King", "Smooth Operator", "By Your Side", "No Ordinary Love" and "Soldier of Love". It also contains four previously unreleased tracks—a cover of Thin Lizzy's 1974 song "Still in Love with You", a remix of "The Moon and the Sky" featuring Jay-Z, and the songs "I Would Have Never Guessed" and "Love Is Found". The band promoted the album with their first concert tour in 10 years, Sade Live. In March 2014, the album was re-released as The Essential Sade under the Sony Legacy umbrella. 

I know my eyes already like youBaby, you

I know that love

Love is found

Love is found

 

I got the radio on

I know it won't be long

'Cause I can hear you, baby

I can feel your sound

 

I'm drifting closer now

And I can feel the sound

 

But I know my eyes already like you

Baby, you

I know that love

Love is found

Love is found

 

Oh, when my heart go b-boom b-boom

B-b-boom, b-b-boom boom

My heart go b-boom b-boom

 

But I know my eyes already like you

Baby, you

I know that love

Love is found

Love is found

 

Oh, when my heart go b-boom b-boom

B-b-boom, b-b-boom boom

My heart go b-boom b-boom

 

But I know my eyes already like you

Baby, you

I know that love

Love is found

Love is found.

ANYONE

DEMI LOVATO

SONGWRITERS: BIBI BOURELLY; DAYYON ALEXANDER; DEMI LOVATO; EYELAR; JAY MOON & RØMANS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ANYONE

LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2018

 

            Demetria Devonne Lovato (/ləˈvɑːtoʊ/lə-VAH-toh; born August 20, 1992) is an American singer and actress. After appearing in the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she rose to prominence for her role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010), as well as the titular character on Sonny with a Chance (2009–2011). The former film's soundtrack included "This Is Me", Lovato's duet with Joe Jonas, which peaked in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. After signing with Hollywood Records, Lovato released her pop rock debut album, Don't Forget (2008), which charted at number two on the Billboard 200. Its follow-up, Here We Go Again (2009), debuted at number one in the US and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

             Lovato experimented with pop and R&B on her third studio album, Unbroken (2011), and returned to a more pop-friendly sound on her fourth studio album, Demi (2013). The album debuted with 110,000 copies sold in the US, her highest first-week sales in the country. Lovato's soul-influenced fifth and sixth studio albums, Confident (2015) and Tell Me You Love Me (2017), presented more mature lyrical content than previous works. The latter became her first album to be certified platinum by the RIAA, and its lead single, "Sorry Not Sorry", became her highest-charting single in the US, peaking at number six, and was certified 5x platinum in the US. Lovato's 2020 singles "Anyone" and "I Love Me" became her first number-one entries on Billboard's Digital Songs chart. Her collaborations "Échame la Culpa" (2017) with Luis Fonsi and "Solo" (2018) with Clean Bandit were international successes, both reaching number one in 17 countries and each certified platinum or higher in at least ten countries, including Diamond certifications in Brazil and Mexico.

              As of 2017, Billboard reported that Lovato has sold over two million albums and 20 million singles in the US. She has received various awards, including an MTV Video Music Award, 14 Teen Choice Awards, five People's Choice Awards, two Latin American Music Awards, and one Guinness World Record. Lovato was also included on the Time 100 list in 2017. Outside of music, Lovato served as a judge and mentor on The X Factor USA for two seasons, appeared as a recurring character on Glee (2013–2014) and on the sitcom Will & Grace (2020), and voiced Smurfette in the Sony Pictures Animation film Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017). Her struggles with health received significant media attention in the 2010s, in response to which she published a book, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year (2013), and executive produced the YouTube documentary Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated (2017). She is an advocate for several social causes such as gender, racial, and LGBT rights.

         "Anyone" is a song by American singer Demi Lovato. She performed it at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, 2020, her first performance since suffering a near-fatal drug overdose in July 2018. That same day, it was made available for purchase and streaming. "Anyone" was recorded four days before Lovato's overdose. The song was written by Lovato, Bibi Bourelly, Eyelar Mirzazadeh, Jay Mooncie, Sam Roman, and its producer Dayyon Alexander.

           "Anyone" received universal acclaim from music critics, who praised Lovato's Grammy performance and her vulnerability in the song given the context of her struggles with addiction and depression. The song debuted at number 34 on the Billboard Hot 100, and became her first number one on the Digital Songs chart. The song also entered the top 20 in Scotland and the top 40 in Flanders (Belgium), Hungary, and the Netherlands. On February 6, 2020, "Anyone Live from the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards" was released onto iTunes and all streaming services.

Uh, uh

 

I tried to talk to my piano

I tried to talk to my guitar

Talked to my imagination

Confided into alcohol

 

I tried and tried and tried some more

Told secrets till my voice was sore

Tired of empty conversation

'Cause no one hears me anymore

 

A hundred million stories

And a hundred million songs

I feel stupid when I sing

Nobody's listening to me

Nobody's listening

 

I talk to shooting stars

But they always get it wrong

I feel stupid when I pray

So, why am I praying anyway?

If nobody's listening

 

Anyone, please, send me anyone

Lord, is there anyone?

I need someone, oh

Anyone, please, send me anyone

Lord, is there anyone?

I need someone

 

I used to crave the world's attention

I think I cried too many times

I just need some more affection

Anything to get me by

 

A hundred million stories

And a hundred million songs

I feel stupid when I sing

Nobody's listening to me

Nobody's listening

 

I talk to shooting stars

But they always get it wrong

I feel stupid when I pray

Why the fuck am I praying anyway?

If nobody's listening

 

Anyone, please, send me anyone

Lord, is there anyone?

I need someone, oh

Anyone, please, send me anyone

Lord, is there anyone?

I need someone

 

Oh, anyone, I need anyone

Oh, anyone, I need someone

 

A hundred million stories

And a hundred million songs

I feel stupid when I sing

Nobody's listening to me

Nobody's listening.

CORAZÓN

CAROLE KING

SONGWRITER: CAROL KING

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: FANTASY

LABEL: ODE/A&M RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1973

 

        Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.

                King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut álbum Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.

       King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years. Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored. She is also a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree.

         Fantasy is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1973. At the time of its release, it only reached #6 on the Billboard album chart, but has remained highly regarded by her fans over the ensuing decades. Presented as a sort of song cycle, the album opens and closes with two versions of the title song and the songs on each side segue directly into one another.

             The Spanish language track "Corazón" (the Spanish word for "heart", also used as a term of endearment, as in this song's lyrics) was a moderate hit single from the album, as was "Believe in Humanity". The flip side of the latter single, "You Light Up My Life" (not the Debby Boone hit), charted separately from its A-side.

Corazón mi corazón

Corazón mi corazón

Yo te quiero mi corazón

 

Corazón mi corazón

Yo te quiero mi corazón

Corazón mi corazón

Yo te quiero mi corazón

 

Espero que tu me quieras también

Corazón

 

Corazón mi corazón

Corazón mi corazón

Ayúdame mi corazón

 
Yo te quiero mi corazón
Ayúdame te quiero, te quiero
Corazón. 

VELAS IÇADAS

IVAN LINS

COMPOSITORES: VITOR MARTINS & IVAN LINS

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: A NOITE

GRAVADORA: EMI

GÊNERO: M.P.B.

ANO: 1979

 

        “Em 1979, Ivan Lins vivia um dos melhores momentos de sua carreira. Nos dois anos anteriores, lançou dois álbuns seminais pela EMI-Odeon, os excelentes Somos Todos Iguais Nesta Noite(...) e Nos Dias de Hoje (...) e ampliou o seu público, especialmente no circuito universitário, graças a inúmeros shows. A Noite, que chegou às lojas há 40 anos, consolidou esse período fantástico com um conteúdo repleto de emoção e denúncia social, no qual a parceria dele com Vitor Martins prosseguiu em sua trajetória rumo à excelência artística.

              O show de lançamento de A Noite foi o segundo que tive a oportunidade de assistir na minha vida, no então Teatro Pixinguinha, do Sesc, em São Paulo. Certamente, marcou a minha vida, um belo presente de 18 anos que me concedi. Para alegria de alguém que ama a boa música com toda a intensidade, é ótimo constatar que este álbum continua tão maravilhoso, consistente e importante como na época. Dois temas básicos permeiam as 10 faixas: as idas e vindas das relações amorosas e o duro momento político da ditadura militar que vivíamos na época. Ambos, analisados como se estivéssemos na mesa de um bar, em uma dessas noites de solidão, esperança, sonhos e dor”. DE FABIAN CHACUR                                                             

Seu coração é um barco de velas içadas

Longe dos mares, do tempo, das loucas marés

Seu coração é um barco de velas içadas

Sem nevoeiros, tormentas, sequer um revés

 

Seu coração é um barco jamais navegado

Nunca se mostrou por dentro, abrindo os porões

Seu coração é um barco que vive ancorado

Nunca se arriscou ao vento, às grandes paixões

 

Nunca soltou as amarras

Nunca ficou à deriva

Nunca sofreu um naufrágio

Nunca cruzou com piratas e aventureiros

Nunca cumpriu o destino das embarcações.