"Breathe Gentle" is a duet

Duet (music)

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 by Italian

Italy

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 singer Tiziano Ferro

Tiziano Ferro

Tiziano Ferro is an Italian pop singer. He reached notoriety in 2001 and during his career he has also sung in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.-Childhood and early beginnings:...

 and American

United States

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 singer Kelly Rowland

Kelly Rowland

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. It was written and composed by Ferro, Ivano Fossati

Ivano Fossati

Ivano Alberto Fossati is an Italian pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and percussionist born in Genoa. Fossati has several albums to date and has worked with such musicians as Fabrizio De André, Riccardo Tesi,Anna Oxa, Mia Martini, Ornella Vanoni, Francesco De Gregori and...

, and Billy Mann for Ferro's fourth studio album, Alla mia età

Alla Mia Età (album)

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(2008) and released as the album's third single

Single (music)

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 in February 2009 (see 2009 in music

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) throughout Europe

Europe

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. The song has since reached #1 on the Italy Airplay

Italy

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 Charts and #9 on the Dutch Top 40

Dutch Top 40

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.

In Italy Indietro was released, the Italian version of Breathe Gentle.

Music video

The music video for the song was shot at Lake Garda

Lake Garda

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, directed by Gaetano Morbioli and its context is similar to James Bond

James Bond

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 stories.
Ferro and Rowland are two thieves, living a dangerous love story on the video. In the end, they are close to get caught up by the police, but they run and stay together by the end of the video.

Formats and track listings

Digital single

1. "Breathe Gentle" (album version) – 3:41
2. "Indietro" (Live @ Rolling Stone) – 3:45

EP album

1. "Breathe Gentle" (album version) – 3:41
2. "Alla mia età" (acoustic remix) – 3:28
3. "Breathe Gentle" (Tiziano's audio comment) – 1:42

The music of the song breath gentle is a cover of a classical song called pachelbel's Canon in D.

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	7
Italian Singles Chart	2
Italian Singles Airplay	1
Slovakian Airplay Chart	47

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)	Position
Italian Singles Chart	13

External links

• TizianoFerro.com — official site
• KellyRowlandOnline.com — official site