I JUST WANNA STOP

MICHELLE SIMONAL
SONGWRITER: ROSS VANNELLI
COUNTRY: S/INF.
ALBUM: INTERNATIONAL INSPIRATIONS
LABEL: MUSIC BROKERS
GENRE: DANCE
YEAR: 2019
 
         An artist who has learned how to step into the genre she chooses and make it her own, Michelle has created silky jazz versions like her major hit With or Without You and has also lent her voice to the swaying beat of electro-bossa as seen in her early career with her rendition of Stir It Up, among others.
For your love
When I think about those nights in Montreal
I get the sweetest thoughts of you and me
Memories of love above the city lights
Wuh, I've tried so hard to take it
But oh Lord my heart won't make it
I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
I never wanna live without you babe
I just gotta stop
For your love
When I think about the way the world must hurt
I get the saddest thoughts for you and me
Memories of life and time goes on and on
Wuh, I've tried hard to forget it
But oh Lord my heart won't make it
I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
I never wanna live without you babe
I just gotta stop
For your love.

THE GAME OF LOVE

SARAH MENESCAL
SONGWRITERS: JR.; GREGG ALEXANDER & RICHARD NOWELS
COUNTRY:
ALBUM: THE GAME OF LOVE
LABEL: MUSIC BROKERS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2015
 
          Sarah Menescal is a rising star in the world of contemporary Bossa Nova. The artist began her singing career as a participant on the acclaimed Jazz and 90s where her take on the No Doubt hit Don't Speak set the bar for jazz versions. She soon realized that her true calling lay in the swinging beats of the Brazilian musical genre. Her first album released in 2014 found her applying bossa touches to a number of contemporary pop classics and the results were astounding. Sarah has since released two studio albums including 2016Çs Consequence of Love and plans to head out on tour for the first time. While she mainly works alone, Sarah can be found in the studio recording with James Farrelli , with whom she has worked on versions of Africa and Eye in the Sky.
Tell me just what you want me to be
One kiss, boom, you're the only one for me
So please tell me why don't you come around no more?
'Cause right now I'm cryin' outside the door of your candy store
 
Just takes a little bit of this, a little bit of that
It start with a kiss, we're up to bad
A little bit of laughs, a little bit of pain
I'm tellin' you, my babe, it's all in this game of love
 
Whatever you make it to be
Sunshine set on this cold 'n' lonely sea
So please, baby, try and use me for what I'm good for
'N' sayin' goodbye, it's knockin' down the door of your candy store
 
Just takes a little bit of this, a little bit of that
It started with a kiss, we're up to bad
A little bit of laughs, a little bit of pain
I'm tellin' you, my babe, it's all in this game of love
It's all in this game of love
 
You roll me, control me, console me, please hold me
You guide me, divide me into whole
So please tell me why don't you come around no more?
'Cause right now I'm dyin' outside the door of your lovin' store
 
Just takes a little bit of this, a little bit of that
It start with a kiss, 'n' now we're up to bad
A little bit of laughs, a little bit of pain
I'm tellin' you, my babe, it's all in this game of love.

MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE

KAREN SOUZA
SONGWRITERS: MELLIN ROBERT & WOOD GUY B.
COUNTRY: ARGENTINA
ALBUM: VELVET VAULT
LABEL: MUSIC BROKERS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2017
 
    Karen Souza(born January 10, 1984) is an Argentinian jazz and bossa nova singer, songwriter, and producer.
     Velvet Vault is a studio album by Argentinian jazz singer Karen Souza. The album was recorded in Colombia, Japan, and Brazil and released on 1 December 2017 via Music Brokers label
      Andy Hermann of DownBeat wrote "Souza brings a timeless quality to the material, whether it’s a standard like “I Fall In Love Too Easily”—rendered on Velvet Vault as a hat-tip to Chet Baker’s iconic version, complete with muted trumpet—or a recent indie-rock hit like MGMT’s “Kids,” which Souza, who also produced Velvet Vault, stripped of its original electronic instrumentation and cast as a ghostly piano ballad".
      Ilana Kalish of Atwood Magazine noted "Since 2011, the vintage vixen has released 5 albums of covers as a soloist and more with The Cooltrane Quartet. But, Ms. Karen is no one trick vixen. Nestled in with the cornucopia of covers galore on her latest album Velvet Vault (’17) are some very well interpreted jazz standards. Which proves to an even broader, perhaps older generation of the music world that Ms. Souza’s chops are legitimate, and her kudos well earned".
        A reviewer of Broadway World stated "Featuring several jazz standards, "Velvet Vault" is a more mature and more subtle than Karen's previous efforts, and she truly feels is her best album to date"
The very thought of you makes my heart sing
Like an April breeze on the wings of spring
And you appear in all your splendor
My one and only love
 
The shadows fall and spread their mystic charms
In the hush of night while you're in my arms
I feel your lips so warm and tender
My one and only love
 
The touch of your hand is like heaven
A heaven that I've never known
The blush on your cheek
Whenever I speak
Tells me that you are my own
 
You fill my eager heart with such desire
Every kiss you give sets my soul on fire
I give myself in sweet surrender
My one and only love
 
The touch of your hand is like heaven
A heaven that I've never known
The blush on your cheek
Whenever I speak
 
Tells me that you are my own
You fill my eager heart with such desire
Every kiss you give sets my soul on fire
I give myself in sweet surrender
My one and only love.

MOONSHADOW

CAT STEVENS
SONGWRITER: ISLAM YUSUF
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: TEASER AND THE FURECAT
LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1971
 
       Yusuf Islam(born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, later in his career, Islamic music. He returned to making secular music in 2006. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
        His 1967 debut album and its title song "Matthew and Son" both reached top ten in the UK charts. Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman(1970) and Teaser and the Firecat(1971) were certified triple platinum in the US. His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four went to Nº 1 on Billboard Pop Albums and spent weeks at the top of several major charts. He earned ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit for four artists. His other hit songs include "Father and Son", "Wild World", "Moonshadow", "Peace Train", and "Morning Has Broken".
         In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam and adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all of his guitars for charity, and left his musical career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He has since bought back at least one of these guitars as a result of the efforts of his son Yoriyos. He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. His current stance is that he never supported the fatwa: "I was cleverly framed by certain questions. I never supported the fatwa." He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace as well as other humanitarian awards.
         In 2006, he returned to pop music by releasing his first new studio album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup. With that release and subsequent ones, he dropped the surname "Islam" from the album cover art – using the stage name Yusuf as a mononym. In 2009, he released the album Roadsinger and, in 2014, he released the album Tell 'Em I'm Gone and began his first US tour since 1978. His second North American tour since his resurgence, featuring 12 shows in intimate venues, ran from 12 September to 7 October 2016. In 2017, he released the album The Laughing Apple, now using the stage name Yusuf/Cat Stevens, using the Cat Stevens name for the first time in 39 years. In September 2020, he released Tea for the Tillerman, a reimagining of his classic album Tea for the Tillerman to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
         Teaser and the Firecat is the fifth studio album by Cat Stevens, released in October 1971. English keyboardist Rick Wakeman played piano on "Morning Has Broken" and English musician Linda Lewis also contributed vocals on "How Can I Tell You". At the Australian 1972 King of Pop Awards the album won Biggest Selling L.P

Yes, I'm being followed by a moonshadow
Moonshadow, moonshadow
Leaping and hopping on a moonshadow
Moonshadow, moonshadow
 
And if I ever lose my hands
Lose my plow, lose my land
Oh, if I ever lose my hands
Oh, if, I won't have to work no more
 
And if I ever lose my eyes
If my colours all run dry
Yes, if I ever lose my eyes
Oh, if, I won't have to cry no more
 
Yes, I'm being followed by a moonshadow
Moonshadow, moonshadow
Leaping and hopping on a moonshadow
Moonshadow, moonshadow
 
And if I ever lose my legs
I won't moan, and I won't beg
Oh, if I ever lose my legs
Oh, if, I won't have to walk no more
 
And if I ever lose my mouth
All my teeth, north and south
Yes, if I ever lose my mouth
Oh, if, I won't have to talk
 
Did it take long to find me?
I ask the faithful light
Oh, did it take long to find me?
And, are you gonna stay the night?
 
I'm being followed by a moonshadow
Moonshadow, moonshadow
Leaping and hopping on a moonshadow
Moonshadow, moonshadow
 
Moonshadow, moonshadow
Moonshadow, moonshadow