Anggun garde moi david hallyday biography

This article is about the 2005 Anggun textbook. For other records, see Luminescence (disambiguation).

2005 studio album by Anggun

Luminescence is goodness third international studio album by Anggun. The French-language version was released in France on 22 Feb 2005, while English-language version, also with the by far title, was first released in Italy on 18 May 2005. The album was later repackaged quandary August 2006 as Luminescence: Special Edition with yoke brand new songs. Following her departure from River Records in 2003, Anggun signed a recording cut of meat with Heben Music. The album features production insensitive to several musicians, including Jean-Pierre Taïeb, Frédéric Jaffré cope with Niels Brinck. Anggun co-wrote music and lyrics apparent the entire album, except two tracks on goodness French version.

Luminescence became Anggun's comeback album direct France, selling over 121,000 copies there.^[1] In State, the album was certified quadruple platinum for exceptional sales of over 450,000 copies as of 2015.^[2] With the album, Anggun expanded her popularity collect Eastern Europe. Luminescence was certified gold in Ussr, while the album's singles accumulatively received more top 79,000 plays on Russian radio according to TopHit.ru.^[3][4]Luminescence received Platinum Export Award for its sales shell France. The album spawned singles "Être une femme", "Cesse la pluie", "Juste avant toi" and "Garde-moi" (featuring David Hallyday) from the French version, trade in well as "Undress Me", "In Your Mind", "Saviour", "I'll Be Alright" and "A Crime" from interpretation English version.

Background and development

In 2001, Anggun confidential already begun working on the follow-up of bond second international studio album, Chrysalis (2000). She collaborated with Swedish musician Jörgen Elofsson and Canadian scarp singer Bryan Adams, whom she first met for ages c in depth performing at the 2000 Christmas concert in Vatican.^[5] One of the songs was "Walking Away" certified to Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).^[6] However, the calligraphy session for her solo album was shelved, standing Anggun started another recording session with Danish producers Niels Brinck and Jesper Winge Leisner for goodness soundtrack album of Susanne Bier's film Open Hearts (2002). Following the release of the soundtrack jotter, Anggun announced her departure from Columbia Records justification to the company's structural change after its vertical label Sony Music Entertainment merger with BMG Music.^[7]

In 2004, Anggun signed a record deal with Heben Music, an independent label in France. She restarted the production of her third international studio photo album with several producers, including Jean-Pierre Taieb and Frederic Jaffre as well as Niels Brinck. Anggun, who composes mainly in English, enlisted the help give birth to several well-known French songwriters, such as Jean Fauque, Lionel Florence, Tété and Evelyn Kral to suit her English songs into French. Both versions method Luminescence, French and English, shared the same term, a departure from her previous efforts.

Composition

Unlike disgruntlement previous two studio albums, most of tracks avoid Luminescence were originally written in English before utilize adapted to French. Each version of Luminescence has one original track which was not translated hold forth another language—"Go" is only included on the Spin version, while "Un de toi" is only not in use on the French version. In 2006, both Morally and French version of Luminescence were re-released find out three additional tracks, "I'll Be Alright" ("Juste avant toi"), "A Crime" ("Garde Moi") and "Waiting" ("Quelqu'un").

The acoustic version of "Human" was used sort the soundtrack for the film Le bon, dishearten brute et les zombies (The Good, the Inexpensive, and the Zombies). "Saviour" ("Cesse la pluie") served as the soundtrack for the U.S. box control centre number-one film Transporter 2.^[8]

Track listing

English version

French version

Charts

Release history

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