专辑英文名: We Are One
专辑中文名: We Are One
歌手: Kelly Sweet
音乐风格: 流行
资源格式: FLAC
版本: [Bonus Track]
发行时间: 2007年03月06日
地区: 美国
语言: 英语
简介:
厂牌: Razor & Tie; Victor
流派: Jazz, pop,classical crossover, adult contemporary
专辑介绍:
Kelly Sweet于1988年出生于马萨诸塞州科德角的音乐世家, 自小受爵士音乐熏陶. 4岁时第一次在Cape Cod Conservatory公开演出. 7岁时, 由于父母离婚, Kelly Sweet跟随母亲移居Kanab, 在那里开始经常和声乐教师工作, 并以歌手身份在剧院等各种公开场合表演以磨练自己.
2004年7月Kelly Sweet遇见了格莱美奖提名的制片人，编曲和词曲作者Mark Portmann, 双方的合作始于此后不久.
2007年3月, 她的首张专辑We Are One发行.
这张专辑并不是平常被定义的那种流行音乐专辑，但 We Are One 却比当今广播单曲榜前40名的歌曲更富有感召力。这张专辑的语言包括英语，意大利语、法语、梵语，并且加入了爵士和古典等元素，因此，它拥有在当今流行乐坛少见的深度和高雅。优雅的 Giorno Dopo Giorno （意大利语：日复一日），伴随着让人陶醉的管弦乐，带给听众一种通常只能在世界上最好的歌剧院才能够感体会到的感受。Sweet说，“这首歌原本是用英语创作的，歌名是‘Who Can I Believe In?’，但我们觉得这首歌的旋律太过于欧化，跟歌词的搭配起来效果不是很好，于是我们请来曾经为Josh Groban 写过意大利歌词的Marco Marinangelli， 将这首歌翻译成意大利语，歌词出来的感觉实在是太美了。”
We Are One 是一次珍贵的音乐旅程--它的美丽、优雅、个性和勇气所诠释出的情感，深深地触碰着每一个年龄阶段的听众。“音乐并不是属于我个人”，她说，“而是我们所有人心灵的写照，我很高兴可以用自己的声音将这些美好的事物传达给全世界”。
Amazon.com
Kelly Sweet was never a contestant on a TV singing competition, and she isn't the product of the latest svengali producer. Which, in 2007, makes her something of a rare new pop star. Her approach to the genre is pretty unexpected, too: Temperamentally, the flame-haired chanteuse falls somewhere between Celine Dion and Sarah McLachlan, which is to say she's all softness, warmth, and sincerity. Vocally, she's a ringer for Amy Lee of the rock band Evanescence, minus the goth fixation. And categorically, her closest fit within the wide world of pop is classical crossover. Consider her the female Josh Groban then, with the multilingual skills to match: In addition to a haunting and miraculously un-awful rendition of Aerosmith's "Dream On," she busts out a French track, "Je T'aime," that sends out summery flutters; a Sanskrit song from the film "Gladiator," "Now We Are Free," that impresses with its depth of feeling; and an Italian number, "Giorno Dopo Giorno," that ripples with tenderness and sentimentality. Sweet is a songbird with a wide wingspan; her debut mostly soars. --Tammy La Gorce
Product Description
Not your typical pop record in any way, shape or form, WE ARE ONE has a much more ambitious sensibility than those being heard on Top 40 radio today. With songs sung in English, Italian, French, and Sanskrit, and melodies that partake of both jazz and classical influences, WE ARE ONE conveys a sense of depth, intimacy and sophistication not often heard in today's pop landscape. The magnificent "Giorno Dopo Giorno" couples Sweet's soaring vocals with a thrilling string arrangement, bringing listeners the kind of intense joy that can usually only be experienced in the world's finest opera houses. "The song originally had English lyrics," says Sweet, "and it was called `Who Can I Believe In?' We felt that the melody was too European and didn't work with the lyrics, so we asked Marco Marinangelli, who writes Italian lyrics for Josh Groban, to translate the words into Italian. It came out beautifully." Sweet says she has always gravitated to the beautiful sounds of languages other than English. "I was classically trained beginning at the age of 11," she says, "and that's when I began to sing in other languages. It always came very easily to me."
WE ARE ONE, then, is that rarest of musical experiences--a seamless emotional journey that deeply touches listeners of all ages with its beauty, grace, individuality, and courage. But perhaps to call Sweet courageous is overstating something that is really much simpler. "This music is not about me," she says. "It's about the soul in all of us. I am just happy to have a voice to convey these things to the world."
And the world is certainly a better place because of it.
版本说明: 厂牌为Victor于2007年8月27日发行的Bonus Track版本, Catalog: 63910.