Alannah Myles is a Canadian singer-songwriter who began her artistic career at the age of 9 by beginning to compose her first songs.
We find her at the age of 18 in the company of Christopher Ward, a composer with whom she sets up a group and with whom she performs covers of rock and blues standards. The same with whom she will work a few years later on her first album "Alannah Myles".
A first album which saw the light of day in 1989 and for a first opus, it was a real masterstroke since it made a real worldwide hit. In particular thanks to the Singles "Love is", but also, and above all, "Black velvet" which will offer the singer the biggest success of her entire recording career.
Album which will also produce a third hit of big caliber with the title "Lover of mine" which will be released a year later in 1990.
We will have to wait 3 years and the year 1992 to see the release of her new album "Rockinghorse", an album which will not really know the same level of success as its predecessor. Album which will struggle to produce any planetary class hit apart from the title “Song instead of a kiss” which will be the only Single to succeed.
The album "A-lan-nah" which will be released in 1995 will do even worse than the two previous albums and will definitely seal the singer's fate. With the key to a gradual, but irreversible, disappearance of Charts in the years that will follow.
To discover or rediscover...
Discography (among others ...) :
80s Decade :
Love is 1989
Black velvet 1989
Just one kiss 1989
90s Decade :
Still got this thing 1990
Lover of mine 1990
Song instead of a kiss 1992
Our world, our times 1993
Living on a memory 1993
Sonny say you will 1993
Family secret 1995
I believe 1995
Blow wind blow 1996
You love who you love 1996
Bad 4 you 1997
The dance of love 1997
Break the silence 1998
Long long time 1998
2000s Decade :
Like flames 2000
2010s Decade :
Leave it alone 2014
Only wings 2014
Faces in the crowd 2014
Trouble 2014
Tracks :
1989 ... a career that started off with a bang, to say the least. First title and already the first global top hit. The singer couldn't have asked for a better start !
1989 ... only 2 titles were enough for the singer to become part of the musical legend of the 80s. Here she delivers an enormous title which will remain as her biggest record success, offering herself at the same time a direct ticket for posterity. MAS-TER-FUL !
1989...a title which will not be officially released as a Single but which it would have been a shame to hide. Here it is brought back to light...
1990 ... having climbed too quickly and above all too high, we suspected that the singer could only come down behind. Which unfortunately will be the case ...
1990 ... she still manages to maintain a level of success worthy of the best, especially thanks to titles like this one. Hope it lasts ...
1992 ... the last notorious hit. And yes, already. The singer will be back down as quickly in the Charts as she was up there. And yet, when we see the quality of what she continues to offer, we could have hoped that she would stay in the leading pack a little longer ...
1993 ... the adventure continues all the same but the singer will never find again the incredible level of success that she knew at the end of the 80s ...
1993 ... it must be said that the punchy rock mode marginalizes her somewhat. This kind of musical domain tends to scare the general public unfortunately ...
1993 ... as soon as the decibels calm down, as if by chance, the public returns somewhat. Like what, it is always played at not much ...
1995 ... she now does more some figuration than anything else. Only Canada now grants her its favors in the Charts and again in a rather modest way ...
1995...another title which will not be officially released as a Single but which also deserves to be brought back into the light somewhat...
1996 ... after having exploded at the very end of the 80s, she will have spent the 90s to survive and especially to spend a crazy energy not to sink body and soul. While she had all the potential to have an incredible career ...
1996 ... a title full of finesse and smoothness which shows that she had all the potential necessary to do incredible things in this field. She will have opted for the much more punchy side, a side that will have penalized her more than anything else ...
1997 ... the adventure continues for some reason but there is no more than her to believe. She has almost disappeared from radar and one wonders what can still motivate her to continue in these conditions ...
1997...more than one title would have deserved to officially see the light of day but this will not be the case unfortunately. It is now done...
1998...a title which will not be officially released via the usual channels and which will therefore go unnoticed to say the least. And yet, he is far from unworthy. But when it no longer wants, it no longer wants...
1998...another 'out of light' title which frankly would have deserved to rise to the surface too. Might as well take advantage of this to allow hit to do it...
2000 ... she will even attempt the transition to the decade but that is more of an anecdote than anything else. Especially when she produces titles that spin at such a speed ...
2014...when we thought we would never see her again, here she is back almost 14 years later in an unexpected and above all unhoped-for way...
2014...a return which inevitably delights fans from the very beginning and which above all reminds us that in music nothing is ever finished...
2014...not only does she return but she returns with titles of certain quality which doesn't spoil anything, quite the contrary...
2014...so will she come back or not come back later ? Only she knows the answer and above all destiny will eventually decide when and how...
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