ONE MOMENT IN TIME

DANA WINNER

SONGWRITERS: JOHN BETTIS &ALBERT HAMMOND

COUNTRY: BELGIUM

ALBUM: PUUR

LABEL: UNIVERSAL MUSIC S. A.

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 2016

 

          Dana Winner(born Chantal Vanlee on 10 February 1965 in Hasselt) is a Belgian singer.

             In 1990 she released her first single Op het dak van de wereld, (Dutch: "On the roof of the world"), a cover of The Carpenters' Top of the World from 1973. In 1993 she became really popular with Woordenloos(Dutch: "Without words"). However, it was only in 1995 that she released her Only hit single so far to reach the Dutch Top 40, Westenwind. This was a cover of the former hit One Way Wind by the Volendam group The Cats.

       After her first success, Dana Winner also became well known in Germany and South Africa. At the end of the 1990s, she began singing in other languages and did not release an album in Dutch between 2000 and 2006.

Each day I live

I want to be a day to give the best of me

I'm only one, but not alone

My finest day is yet unknown

I broke my heart for ev'ry gain

To taste the sweet, I face the pain

I rise and fall, yet through it all this much remains

 

I want one moment in time

When I'm more than I thought I could be

When all of my dreams

Are a heart beat away

And the answers are all up to me

 

Give me one moment in time

When I'm racing with destiny

Then in that one moment of time

I will feel, I will feel eternity

 

I've lived to be the very best

And I want it all, no time for less

And I've laid the plans

Now lay the chance here in my hands

 

Give me one moment in time

When I'm more than I thought I could be

When all of my dreams

Are a heart beat away

And the answers are all up to me

 

Give me one moment in time

When I'm racing with destiny

Then in that one moment of time

I will feel, I will feel eternity

 

You're a winner for a lifetime

If you seize that one moment in time

Make it shine

Give me

 

One moment in time

When I'm more than I thought I could be

When all of my dreams

Are a heart beat away

And the answers are all up to me

 

Give me one moment in time

When I'm racing with destiny

Then in that one moment of time

I will be, I will be free

 

I will be free

I will be

I will be free.

UNA NO ES NINGUNA

XIMENA ABARCA

COMPOSITOR: XIMENA ABARCA

PAIS: CHILE

ÁLBUM: PUNTO DE PARTIDA

DISCOGRÁFICA: WARNER MUSIC CHILE

GÉNERO: POP

AÑO: 2004

 

      María Ximena Abarca Tapia (Santiago, 24 de septiembre de 1981) es una cantante de pop y folk chilena. También ha trabajado en papeles dramáticos en algunas teleseries juveniles. Actualmente reside em Australia donde es parte de la banda Huanchaco.

           Ximena Abarca participó en 2003 en el programa de telerrealidad de Canal 13, Protagonistas de la música. En el primer día fue eliminada por sus compañeros, regresando para interpretar el tango Volver de Carlos Gardel en un duelo por la permanencia en el programa. Ximena triunfa la primera semana, sin embargo, a la semana siguiente, sería nuevamente amenazada por sus compañeros, y eliminada en una estrecha votación popular. Las cualidades artísticas de Ximena Abarca convencieron nuevamente al público y logró una demoledora votación (superando el 80% del total) en el repechaje, a mediados de la transmisión del programa de telerrealidad. Luego de su reingreso, Abarca se convirtió en una de las favoritas del público y del jurado; ganado 4 veces la inmunidad por talento, y coronándose como la gran triunfadora en la final del programa. Protagonistas de la música finaliza el 7 de septiembre de ese año con Ximena Abarca en el primer lugar con un 62,78% de la votación popular, venciendo a sus contrincantes: Sebastián Longhi, Feliciano Saldías y Hernán Pelegri.

         Como ganadora del concurso de talentos, Ximena Abarca firma un contrato com Warner Music para la grabación de su primer disco solista y se inscribe como la primera artista invitada al Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar. Sin embargo, el disco se demoró más de lo esperado y salió a la venta días antes de su debut en la Quinta Vergara. en Viña del Mar alcanzó a interpretar cuatro temas: Mala sombra, El juego de la resistencia, Amor violento y Una no es ninguna. Este último no estaba contemplado en el espectáculo inicial, y tuvo que ser interpretado puesto que el público demandaba una canción más.

       Punto de partida, su disco debut, sacó tres sencillos: El juego de la resistencia, que rotó en distintas radios de corte juvenil a los pocos días de su estreno, siendo su tema más exitoso; mientras Amor violento(el cual contó con el primer videoclip de la artista) logró estar entre los Top 50 de las canciones más tocadas durante 2004 y en los primeros lugares de los canales chilenos de video. Finalmente, su tercer sencillo, Alguien (que me hable bien de ti), quedó en el lugar 36º entre las canciones más rotadas durante el 2005.

Una no es ninguna

Me dijiste y me pareció una locura

Una pobre impresentable travesura

Que ahora causa este dolor

 

Una no es ninguna

Como si se tratara de uvas de un racimo

Como si fuera solo una copa de vino

En una celebración

 

Lloro al despertar

Porque ahora sé que tal vez siempre fuiste así

Y la fe que puse en tu fidelidad

Ahora sé quebró como un cristal

 

Coro:

Y me pregunto

¿Cuándo?

Vas a aprender a conocerte un poco más

¿Cuándo?

Vas a intentar comprometerte de verdade

¿Cuándo?

Vas a crecer si tú no tienes voluntad

Porque si una no es ninguna

Y tienes la cara tan dura

¿Para que seguir mintiendo

En este amor que no es amor?

Y si una no es ninguna

Voy a ser también ninguna

Para que comprendas

Lo que siento yo

 

Una no es ninguna

Es un torpe intento justificativo

Como si fuera una moneda en un casino

Y solo agrava la infracción

 

He aprendido ya

Que en la vida nada pasa por que si

Dicen que

Nadie se muere por amor

¡tengo que quererme un poco más!

 

Y me pregunto

¿Cuándo?

Vas a aprender a conocerte un poco más

¿Cuándo?

Vas a intentar comprometerte de verdad

¿Cuándo?

Vas a crecer si tú no tienes voluntad

Porque si una no es ninguna

Y tienes la cara tan dura

Para que seguir mintiendo

En este amor que no es amor

Y si una no es ninguna

Voy a ser también ninguna

Y así entiendas de una vez

Que no se juega con mi amor

Y si una no es ninguna

Voy a ser también ninguna

Para que comprendas

Lo que siento yo.

LOVE ME FOR WHAT I AM

LOBO

SONGWRITER: LAVOIE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CALUMET

LABEL: BIG TREE

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1973

 

       Roland Kent LaVoie(born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name Lobo (which is a Spanish word for wolf), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", "I'd Love You to Want Me", and "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend". These three songs, along with "Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love", gave Lobo four chart toppers on the Easy Listening/Hot Adult Contemporary chart.

          Calumet is the third album by Lobo, released in 1973 on Big Tree Records. It was reissued in 2008 by Wounded Bird Records and includes six bonus tracks.

The album peaked at Nº 128 on the US Top LPs chart. Two of its singles were top 30 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and top 5 hits on the Easy Listening chart. "There Ain't No Way" and its B-side "Love Me For What I Am" were minor hits on the Hot 100.

I wore the clothes you liked

You said they gave me that look

I even tried to like the food

I know you like to cook

I parted my hair on the left

I carried your arm on the right

I slept late in the morning

And I stayed out late at night.

 

I can't give any more of my soul away

And still look myself in the mirror everyday

I can't change any more

Of what makes me be myself

And still have enough left

Not to be somebody else

I'm not demanding as a man

Just asking you, love me for what I am.

 

I tried hard not to say

The things you don't like to hear

And when to you it was apropos

I nibbled on your ear

I opened the door up for you

I kept my big mouth shut

Well I've been going down

While you've been going up.

ELASTIC HEART

LAUREN SPENCER-SMITH

SONGWRITERS: TESFAYE ABEL; PENTZ THOMAS WESLEY; FURLER SIA KATE I & SWANSON ANDREW FITZGERALD

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: MIXED EMOTIONS

LABEL: SONGSTER RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2020

 

             Lauren Spencer-Smith(born September 28, 2003) is a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter from Vancouver Island. She appeared as a contestant on the eighteenth season of American Idol in 2020, placing in the top twenty in the competition.

        Her 2019 album Unplugged, Vol, 1 was a Juno Award nominee for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020.

        In 2021, Spencer-Smith became further known internationally when her self-released song "Fingers Crossed" reached the top 20 in numerous countries, including the US, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in numerous countries including Australia, New Zealand and Spencer-Smith's native United Kingdom. This was on the back of a demo of the song going viral on TikTok. Spencer-Smith's rise to popularity and success on social media has been compared to that of American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo. 

And another one bites the dust

Oh, why can I not conquer love?

And I might've thought that we were one

Wanted to fight this war without weapons

 

And I wanted it, I wanted it bad

But there were so many red flags

Now another one bites the dust

Yeah, let's be clear, I'll trust no one

 

You did not break me

I'm still fighting for peace

 

Well, I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

But your blade, it might be too sharp

I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard

Yeah, I may snap and I move fast

You won't see me fall apart

'Cause I've got an elastic heart

Yeah, I've got an elastic heart

 

And I will stay up through the night

Yeah, let's be clear, won't close my eyes

And I know that I can survive

I'll walk through fire to save my life

 

And I wanted it, I wanted it bad

I'm doing everything that I can

Now another one bites the dust

It's hard to lose the chosen one

 

You did not break me

I'm still fighting for peace

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

But your blade, it might be too sharp

I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard

Yeah, I may snap and I move fast

You won't see me fall apart, yeah

I've got an elastic heart

 

Oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, ooh, whoa

No-no, no, no

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, ooh, whoa

No-no, no, no

 

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

But your blade, it might be too sharp

I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard

Yeah, I may snap and I move fast

You won't see me fall apart

'Cause I've got an elastic heart

I've got an elastic heart

I've got an elastic heart.