Dare to Dream is Yanni

Yanni

Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

's eighth album, released on the Private Music

Private Music

Private Music is a United States record company founded in 1984 by experimental musician Peter Baumann, as a home for instrumental music. Initially signing such artists as Yanni, Suzanne Ciani, Patrick O'Hearn, and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream, the record label specialized in New Age...

 label in 1992 (see 1992 in music

1992 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.-January–February:*January 11**Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s....

). The album peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart and at #32 on the "Billboard 200

Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

" chart in the same year. It went gold

Music recording sales certification

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...

 within two months of its release and was nominated for a Grammy.

The album was followed by the sell-out, 65-city Dare to Dream concert tour which challenged audiences "not to be afraid to dream."

His newest album, "Dare to Dream," says Yanni, "comes from a realization that not only don't people go after their dreams, they are often afraid to dream at all. If we don't dare to dream, we can't shape our future".

Track listing

1. "Once Upon a Time" – 3:53
2. "A Love for Life" – 5:10
3. "Nice to Meet You" – 5:37
4. "So Long My Friend" – 3:50
5. "You Only Live Once" – 7:22
6. "To the One Who Knows" – 5:40
7. "Face in the Photograph" – 3:49
8. "Felitsa" – 4:47
9. "Desire" – 5:02
10. "Aria" – 4:00
11. "A Night to Remember" – 5:48
12. "In the Mirror" – 4:07

RIAA certification

RIAA certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Gold and Platinum

Music recording sales certification

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...

 database entries:

• (G=Gold, P=Platinum, M=Multi-Platinum)

• YANNI DARE TO DREAM 08/06/92 PRIVATE MUSIC G ALBUM SOLO Std
• YANNI DARE TO DREAM 05/05/94 PRIVATE MUSIC P ALBUM SOLO Std

The band

This 2 hour and 15 minute concert is performed completely live and showcases the broad range of Yanni's music through a unique marriage of acoustic and electronic sound. Yanni and two additional keyboardists (Bradley Joseph and Julie Homi), are backed by a rhythm section headed by Charlie Adams on drums, with Michael Bruno on percussion and Osama Afifi on bass, and a string section featuring Charlie Bisharat and Karen Briggs on violin, and Sachi McHenry on cello.

• Charlie Adams
  Charlie Adams (drummer)
  Charlie Adams is an American drummer, percussionist, drum engineer, composer, music producer, and film producer. He formed the rock band Chameleon in the 1980s, and was known for his revolving, upside-down drum set. He has been drum lead for Yanni through nine major concert tours...
  
   – drums
• Osama Afifi
  Osama Afifi
  Osama Afifi has been a professional bassist since 1983. He has recorded and performed live with many artists such as U.S. and Canadian tours with Yanni during the "Reflections of Passion", "Revolution in Sound", and "Dare to Dream" concert tours; a European and Canadian tour with French artist...
  
   – bass guitar
• Charlie Bisharat
  Charlie Bisharat
  Charlie Bisharat is a Grammy-winning violinistwho has extensively toured and/or recorded with numerous artists. He was a member of Shadowfax who won a Grammy in 1988 for Best New Age Performance for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village...
  
   – violin
• Karen Briggs
  Karen Briggs
  Karen Briggs, is an American violinist. She was born in New York City and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia. Taking violin lessons from an early age, Briggs attended Norfolk State University after graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1981. There, she majored in music education and mass media...
  
   – violin
• Michael Bruno
  Kalani
  Kalani, is an American classically trained percussionist, clinician, performer, author, and educator. He is a frequent keynote speaker and presenter at national and international conferences and is a certified Orff Schulwerk specialist...
  
   – percussion
• Julie Homi
  Julie Homi
  Julie Homi, born in London, England and raised in the American midwest, is a classically-trained pianist/keyboardist who has toured with Robert Palmer, Martin Page, Maria Muldaur, Angela Bofill, Kalani, Tracy Chapman, Shirley Bassey, Peter Cetera, Holly Near, and Yanni for whom she performed during...
  
   – keyboards
• Bradley Joseph
  Bradley Joseph
  Bradley Joseph is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth".Active...
  
   – keyboards
• Sachi McHenry – cello

Tour production

• Yanni's Manager: Jeff D. Klein
• Booking Agent: Fred Bohlander, Monterey Peninsula Artists
• Tour Manager: Vincent Corry
• Prod. Mgr/Designer: David "Gurn" Kaniski
• House Sound Mixer: Tommy Sterling
• Stage Monitor Mixer: Paul Serault
• Stage Manager: Peter Feldman
• Drum/Bass Tech: Jeff Buswell
• Keyboard Tech: Peter Maher
• Vari-lite Operator: Bryan Faris
• Sound Tech: Tracy Kuntsmann
• Lighting Crew Chief: Gus Thomson
• Lighting Tech: Tod Metz
• Tour Accountant: Diane Kramer, Numbers, Inc.
• Set Construction: George & Goldberg
• Wardrobe: Lynn Bugai
• Yanni's Assistant: Susan Smela
• Tour Publicity: Dione Dirito

• Special Thanks
• Yanni thanks E-mu Systems
  E-mu Systems
  E-mu Systems, Inc. is a synthesizer maker and pioneer in samplers and low-cost digital sampling music workstations.-History:Founded in 1971 by Scott Wedge and Dave Rossum, E-mu began making modular synthesizers...
  
   for providing the state-of-the-art sound generating equipment, including 4 Emulator
  E-mu Emulator
  The Emulator is the name given to a series of disk-based digital sampling keyboards manufactured by E-mu Systems from 1982 until 1990. Though not the first commercial sampler, the Emulator was among the first to find wide use among ordinary musicians, due to its relatively low price and its size,...
  
   IIIs, Proteus
  E-mu Proteus
  The E-mu Proteus was a range of digital sound modules and keyboards manufactured in the late twentieth century.-History:E-mu Systems came to prominence in the early 1980s with their relatively affordable Emulator sampler, and subsequently pioneered sample-based synthesis technology with the Proteus...
  
   1 and 2s, and 2 Procussion units used in the performance.

Miscellaneous

The music Once Upon A Time was adopted by TVB as the background music of world weather from July 28, 1991 to December 31, 2009.