IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS LA VIE

SANDRA KIM
COMPOSITEURES: MICHEL LEGRANS & ALBERT BARILLÉ
PAYS: BELGIQUE
ALBUM: HYMNE À LA VIE
RECORD: CARRERE
GENRE: POP ROCK
ANNÉE: 1987
 
           Sandra Caldarone (née le 15 octobre 1972), mieux connue sous le nom de Sandra Kim, est une chanteuse belge d'origine italienne qui a remporté le concours Eurovision de la chanson 1986. Son père était un immigrant italien de Torrebruna dans la province de Chieti dans la région des Abruzzes en Italie.
               Au moment de sa victoire à l'Eurovision, elle n'avait que 13 ans, ce qui en fait la plus jeune lauréate du concours, même si les paroles de sa chanson "J'aime la vie" la prétendent avoir 15 ans ; la Suisse a fait une pétition pour que la chanson soit disqualifiée après que son âge réel ait été révélé. Cette pétition a échoué et Kim a remporté le concours Eurovision de la chanson cette année-là. Kim a également représenté la Belgique au Yamaha Music Festival de Tokyo à l'automne 1986 et a chanté la chanson titre de la série télévisée d'animation française Il était une fois ... la vie. L'album pop rock de Kim Make Upest sorti le 12 mai 2011, contenant des chansons écrites par de célèbres artistes belges comme Salvatore Adamo, Dani Klein (Vaya Con dios), Ozark Henry, Anthony Sinatra (Piano Club), Jacques Duval et David Bartholomé (Sharko). Elle a également remporté la première saison de la version belge de The Masked Singer.
             «J’ aime la vie» (prononciation française: [ʒɛmə la vi], j’ aime la vie ) a été la chanson gagnante du concours de l' Eurovision 1986, réalisée pour la Belgique par Sandra Kim. La Belgique avait terminé le Concours de 1985 à la dernière place, et ainsi réalisé le rare retournement de la dernière à la première en l'espace d'un an. La chanson marque également la seule fois à ce jour que la Belgique a remporté le concours. La chanson a également été incluse sur l'album de Kim J'aime la vie en 1986. Lorsqu'il est sorti en single, il a dominé le classement des singles de Belgique pendant sept semaines et a été le succès le plus vendu du pays en 1986, et il a également atteint le top 20 en Autriche, aux Pays-Bas, au Portugal et en Suède.

La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
 
Et voici la vie
La vie, la vie
Le belle vie toute pressée d'éclore
Le monde nous convie
Et voici la vie
À de nouvelles aurores
Et nous donne des lendemains qui chantent
Et l' soleil qui nous éblouit
L'air vif nous enchante
Nous emplit de joie et de vie
 
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
 
Et voici la vie
La vie, la vie
La belle vie qui coule dans nos veines
Laissons là nos soucis
Et voici la vie
Que la joie souveraine
Emporte les flots de notre sang
Dans un rythme étourdissant
Et donne à tous l'envie
D' s'éclater et de chanter la vie
 
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
 
Et voici la vie
La vie, la vie
La belle vie comme une fête foraine
Pas de temps pour l'ennui
Et voici la vie
Elle court, elle nous entraîne
Chaque instant nous offre ses couleurs
Arc-en-ciel aux mille saveurs…
 
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
 
Et voici la vie
La vie, la vie
La belle vie qui s'écoule sereine
Relevons le défi
D'en faire hymne à la joie la vie.

DOS GARDENIAS

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL
Songwriter: isoline carrillo
LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL 2014
Country: cuba
Album: Buena vista social club
Label: world circuit
Genre: jazz
Year: 1997
 
               Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba. It is named for a danzón that became the title piece of the album Buena Vista Social Club. The film is na international co-production of Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Cuba.
               Buena Vista Social Club is the debut album by the eponymous ensemble of Cuban musicians directed by Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder. It was recorded at Havana's EGREM studios in March 1996 and released on September 16, 1997, on World Circuit. Despite its success, it remains the only standard studio album exclusively credited to the Buena Vista Social Club.
        Buena Vista Social Club was recorded in parallel with A toda Cuba le gusta by the Afro-Cuban All Stars, a similar project also promoted by World Circuit executive Nick Gold and featuring largely the same lineup. In contrast to A toda Cuba le gusta, which was conceived as a revival of the son conjunto, Buena Vista Social Club was meant to bring back the traditional trova and filin, a mellower take on the Cuban son and bolero, as well as the danzón.
            A critical and commercial success, the album's release was followed by a short concert tour in Amsterdam and New York's Carnegie Hall in 1998. Footage from these dates, together with the recording sessions in Havana, were shown on the Buena Vista Social Club documentary by Wim Wenders, released in 1999.

Dos gardenias para ti
Con ellas quiero decir:
Te quiero, te adoro, mi vida
Ponles toda tu atención
Que seran tu corazón y el mio
 
Dos gardenias para ti
Que tendrán todo el calor de un beso
De esos besos que te dí
Y que jamás te encontrarán
En el calor de otro querer
 
A tu lado vivirán y se hablarán
Como cuando estás conmigo
Y hasta creerán que se diran:
Te quiero.
Pero si un atardecer
Las gardenias de mi amor se mueren
Es porque han adivinado
Que tu amor me ha traicionado
Porque existe otro querer.

LEFT IN THE DARK

BARBRA STREISAND
SONGWRITER: JIM STEINMAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: EMOTION
LABEL: COLUMBIA
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1995
 
           Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. With a career spanning seven decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and is one of the few entertainers who have been awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award (EGOT).
             Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records and released her debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album (1963). It won two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums—a record for a woman—including People (1964), The Way We Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and Higher Ground (1997). She has attained five number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart: "The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "Woman in Love".
           After becoming an established recording artist in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include Hello, Dolly! (1969), The Way We Were (1973), Nuts (1987), The Prince of Tides (1991) and A Star Is Born (1976), for which she won her second Academy Award, composing music for the love theme "Evergreen", the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of Yentl (1983), Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first and only woman to win that award.
         With sales of over 150 million records worldwide, Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lists her as the highest-certified female album artist with 68.5 million album units in the United States. Billboard honored Streisand as the greatest Billboard 200 female artist of all time. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes.
           "Left in the Dark" is a song by Jim Steinman from his only solo album Bad for Good.
          The song gained more notice as performed by Barbra Streisand when released as the lead single from her album Emotion in autumn 1984. It was also recorded by Meat Loaf on the album Welcome to the Neighbourhood in 1995.

Where did she touch you,
How did if feel,
Why did you let it begin
What did she whisper and
What did it mean, and
Where do you think it will end?
How long did it last
Do you think it will stop
Did you get to try anything...new
How good was she – honestly
Where did you go and
Who made the very first move, who made the very first move,
Who made the very first move..
 
You don't have to sneak in the doorway
Just come on into the room
I've been lying in our bed in the dark all alone
And I've been waiting, I've been waiting for you
 
There's been no reason to move
It's been as still as a tomb
I needed you oh so badly tonight
But I guess you had better things to do
 
I should have known that it was coming to this
But I must have been blind
I bet you still got a trace of her love in your eyes
And you've still got her eyes on your mind
 
You swore you'd be with me at 7 o'clock
Now it's a quarter to 3
And whatever you got and whoever it was
I guess you couldn't get it from me
Whatever you got and whoever it was
I guess you couldn't get it from me
 
I know that you love me
There's no need to talk
I see the look in your eyes and I got the proof
And there are no lies on your body
As I see you undress ooooh
I just want to get at the truth
I know that you love me
There's no need to talk
I see the look in your eyes and I got the proof
And there are no lies on your body
As I watch you undress
I just want to get at the truth
 
There are so many thing that I've just just gotta know
You tell me who! You tell me where! You tell me when!
But don't tell me now , I don't need any answers tonight
I just need some love so turn out the lights and
I'll be left in the dark again
I'll be left in the dark again
I'll be left in the dark again
Left in the dark again
 
I should have known that it was coming to this
But I must have been blind
I bet you still got a trace of her love in you eyes
And you still got her eyes on your mind
 
You swore you'd be with me at 7 o'clock
Now it's a quarter to 3
And whatever you got and whoever it was
I guess you couldn't get it from me
I guess you couldn't get it from me
But down in my soul, down in my soul
I know-
I know that you love me
There's no need to talk
I see the look in your eyes and I got the proof
And there are no lies on your body
As I watch you undress oooooh
I just want to get at the truth
 
And there are so many things
That I've just got to know
You tell me who! You tell me where!
You tell me when! But don't tell me now
I don't need any answers tonight...
I just need some love so turn out the lights and
I'll be left in the dark again
 
I just need some love
So turn out the lights and I'll be left in the dark again
I just need some love
So turn out the lights and I'll be left in the dark again
I just need some love
So turn out the lights and I'll be left in the dark again
I just need some love
So turn out the light and I'll be left in the dark again
I just need some love
So turn out the lights and I'll be left in the dark again...
Left in the dark again.

INSEPARABLE

NATALIE COLE
SONGWRITERS: MARVIN YANCY & CHUCK JACKSON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: INSEPARABLE
LABEL: CAPITOL
GENRE: R & B
YEAR: 1975
 
            Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Cole was the daughter of American singer and jazz pianista Nat King Cole. She rose to success in the mid-1970s as na R&B singer with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable" (1975), and "Our Love" (1977). She returned as a pop singer on the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she sang traditional pop by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... with Love, which sold over seven million copies and won her seven Grammy Awards. She sold over 30 million records worldwide.
              Inseparable is the 1975 debut studio album by American singer Natalie Cole, released on May 11, 1975 by Capitol Records. The album became her first gold-certified album and spawned the number-one R&B hits "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" and "Inseparable". The hit album and its singles earned Cole two Grammy Awards including Best New Artist.

Inseparable
That's how we'll always be
Inseparable
Just you and me
It's so wonderful
To know you'll always be around me
 
Incredible
What you are to me
Incredible
You bring out the woman in me
With your style of love
Inseparable
Yes we are
 
We're like a flower to a tree
Like words to a melody of love
There's no way we could break up
No words that could make us blow our thing
We are just
 
Inseparable
That's how it is
Inseparable
For the rest of our years
It's so wonderful
To know you'll always be around.