Elan Sara DeFan
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Elán is a recording artist, known for being one of the first Latin American female songwriters to begin her career with an English language album written completely on her own and the first independent artist from Latin America to have sold more than 1.7 millions copies of her music with her band which is also named ELAN, made up of Elán, lead vocalist and keyboard player, Jan Carlo DeFan
, lead guitarist
, co-producer and Elán 's brother, childhood friend and bass player Carlos Padilla Maqueo, and younger cousin and drummer Michel "Cheech" Bitar DeFan and Muaricio "The Duck" Lopez.
Elán reveals an assortment of music that has been influenced by many artists like Bob Dylan
, Janis Joplin
, John Lennon
, Melissa Etheridge
, and a few other notable influences. Elán had a notable success with albums like Street Child
and London Express
. So far, she released six albums: five in English and one in Spanish.
International, Vice President of A&R, Richard Sweret flies Elán and Jan Carlo to meet then, Arista Records
President & CEO Antonio L.A. Reid. After a private showcase in which Elán played "Perfect Life", L.A. Reid stated that the song was "the story of my life" and offered her a record deal. (After signing with Arista Records, Elán is assigned numerous A&R executives). Richard Sweret, (Elán 's A&R executive who brought her to Arista) leaves Arista Records, leaving Elán without representation in the company. Jan Carlo then hires former Aerosmith manager Wendy Leister to manage Elán through the turbulent Arista waters. Elán's second A&R representative at Arista Records, Pete Ganbarg leaves the company, again leaving Elán without representation. Josh Sarubin comes in as Elán's third A&R at Arista
. He suggests that Elán find another producer "to work with other than her brother". Elán is sent on a search for a producer. Over a period of several months, Elán meets with producers in Los Angeles, New York and Virginia.
Elán records with producer Mark Howard, at his studio in Los Angeles, CA
. Legendary drummer Jim Keltner
plays the drums in those sessions. After that, Elán records with programmer/producer Olle Romo, at his studio in Los Angeles, CA
. Then, Elán flies to New York
and records with singer/songwriter and producer Fionn O'Lochlainn. But none of the tracks have ever been released.
Elán along with her brother travels to Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia
, to begin recording what was going to be Street Child. Recording was interrupted by the events of September 11
. That fateful day, Elán was recording a song named "Crash". The song contains the lines: "And out my window I can see it all start to crash/So if we fall, we fall together, if we don’t survive." It was written almost a year earlier. The song has never been released. As soon as air traffic resumed over the United States, Elán flies to New York to play a show in aid of the American Red Cross for victims of the catastrophe of September, 11th. Elán returns to Virginia to continue with the recording sessions. The sessions never concluded.
Eventually, Elán leaves Arista Records. Soon after, Elán parts ways with her then manager, Wendy Laister. Elán and Jan Carlo head back home and begin to salvage an album from the numerous sessions they have recorded in different parts of the world. They find themselves back where they began... recording in their parents' spare bedroom. They re-track most of the album and are eventually joined by Elán's long time engineer Jeff "The Pirate" Poe. They mix the album over the next nine months. Originally slated to be titled "Some Kind Of Daydream" (after Elán's favorite Billie Holliday song "The Very Thought Of You" ), "Street Child" (a name that was thought of by Elán's mother reflecting Elán's state of mind after departing Arista) had come to life. Velvet Revolver
and ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash
hears the song Street Child from a mutual friend and makes known his desire to participate on the title track of Elán's album. The session was recorded at Capitol Records
Studios in Los Angeles, CA
. in August 2002. While at the studio, they also shot parts of the "Street Child" video. Three years after arriving to the U.S.A. Elán's album is finally finished and mastered at Capitol Records
by Mark Chalecki.
Besides Slash, Street Child featured guest appearances by Grammy Award Winner and Beck
producer Brian Paulson, David Immerglück of Counting Crows
, composer/arranger Eugenio Toussaint, Alan Weatherhead of Sparklehorse
and mixed by Grammy Award Winning engineer Jeff "The Pirate" Poe.
Elán's single from her album reaches #1 in airplay in some Mexican territories. Midnight climbed the "Pepsi Chart" to #12. On MTV Latin America
, Elán's video goes to the Top 10 Most Wanted and goes Top 10 on the Top 20 Countdown. In Australian radio, is the second most added song in its first week (second only to Eminem
). The song reached number seven on the charts. Midnight goes top ten across the boards (all radio formats) in airplay in the country. In MTV Australia
it went to the Top Ten most requested and also went to #10 on the "Top 30 Countdown". Elán first releases her album in Mexico and then Australia.
Elán gave interviews and performs on many Mexican TV programs. She performed at award shows and special events such as Mexico's National Academy of Music's Oye Awards, the Eres Magazine 15 Year Anniversary Celebration and the Sanborn's 100th Anniversary Celebration. Elán travels throughout Mexico with her band, performing in Guadalajara, Monterrey
, Mexico City
, Cuernavaca
and Torreón
on what became known as the Street Child Tour. Along with friend and collaborator Juan Carlos Paz y Puente
, Elán travels to Mexico, to play at schools, to promote music education. The tour was sponsored by Fermatta Music Academy
. Elán also performed in the preshow of the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America
2003 in Miami.
In Australia, Elán performed on The Panel, MTV Australia
, Channel V to name a few. Elán also performs two exclusive shows at "Boutique" in Melbourne
and "The Basement" in Sydney
.
, the album contains thirteen new tracks.
London Express finds its roots in the music of The Beatles
, which Elán has described as "the only band that really changed everything". Elán adopted rhythmic patterns and textures and recording techniques from the British Invasion of the 1960s and crafted her own tribute to British rock, one can even hear some people chanting Beatles lyrics on some of the tracks.
Be Free was the first single from the "London Express" album. The video for the "Be Free" single was directed by renowned director, animator and painter Chris Roth and was in high rotation in Latin America's largest Music Video Networks. The single itself did very well in Latin American radio stations, being at the top of the radio charts for several months.
"This Fool's Life" was the second single released from Elán's latest album "London Express". "This Fool's Life" was for several months the single in English with the highest rotation on the radio in many Latin American countries. Being one of the most listened to songs in English in countries like Mexico. The video for "This Fool's Life" was also an outstanding success. It broke several records in Music Video Networks like Telehit which is one of the largest music television networks in the world, broadcasting throughout Mexico, Central & South America, Europe and the United States, with a hisotric record breaking 12 weeks in the #1 position on the charts. In the entirety of Telehit's 13 year history no other video has come even close to Elan's 3 month #1 position on the chart by popular vote.
In Australia, Elan's "This Fool's Life" video debuted in the number one position in video streaming with over 100,000 streams for its first week in Australias' "Undercover", the most important music site in Australia. "This Fool's Life" had almost twice the amount of views in its debut week than all other videos. A third single "Whatever it Takes" was released on November 2006.
The album consists of 10 new original tracks and includes the track "What Can Be Done At This Point", song that gives the name to the album and that offers a posthumous tribute to the crew of the space shuttle "Challenger". The track contains original audio of the transmission between the "Challenger" and mission control of the day of the unforgettable tragedy. The rights to this audio clip were granted by NASA
.
The first single from the new album is titled "Don't Want You In".
The video for "Don't Want You In" jumped traight to the Top 10 charts in videos networks like "Telehit". It was directed by Gulliver Parascandolo who also directed the videos for "This Fool's Life" and "Whatever It Takes".
On September 10, 2007 Elán is awarded an Independent Diamond Record Award for the certified sale of 1.5 million copies of her music.
On April 16 the band launched their "Elan Shine Tour 2008" which kicked off in Mexico. The "Elan Shine Tour 2008" is one of the most successful and longest running tours ever featured in Mexico by an independent band.
The tour in Mexico was originally programed for 14 shows but the tour was so successful that it was extended an additional month into June.
and Juan Gabriel
. Elán said that "it was a personal necessity to sing in Spanish and offer songs that marked my life, some of them in a personal way and others like the ones of José Alfredo Jiménez
, which my father used to hear".-a-sus-origenes-musicales-con-el-cd-recuerdos-y-tequila.htm
The first single is called "Al Lado del Camino" ("By side with the Road"), original of Páez. The video was shot in Mexico City, and features Mexican actors Carmen Salinas, Tony Dalton
and Ana de la Reguera
.
Jan Carlo DeFan
Jan Carlo DeFan Kristal , Is the lead guitar in ELAN it´s one of the most respected guitar players in the Mexican "rock scene", Jan Carlo DeFan plays...
, lead guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
, co-producer and Elán 's brother, childhood friend and bass player Carlos Padilla Maqueo, and younger cousin and drummer Michel "Cheech" Bitar DeFan and Muaricio "The Duck" Lopez.
Elán reveals an assortment of music that has been influenced by many artists like Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
, Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
, John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
, Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals...
, and a few other notable influences. Elán had a notable success with albums like Street Child
Street Child
Street Child is a debut album by Mexican alternative rock vocalist, Elan. It contains her biggest hit, Midnight.Ricardo Burgos from Sony Music called Street Child "a history making release in Latin America".-Re-edition track listing:...
and London Express
London Express
"Be Free" is the first single taken from the album London Express. It's also the opening song of that album....
. So far, she released six albums: five in English and one in Spanish.
Early days
Elán was born 1 March 1983 in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. Her love for music was noticed by her mother at a very young age. "One day, she just climbed up on the bench and started to play; that was the moment where it all began. She was three..." recalls her mother. At age 4, Elán starts writing her first songs and her father starts to record her songs in their makeshift-home studio. "She was always very determined in her writing even at such young age." Jan Carlo recalls. At age 10 Elán starts to perform at private parties and theatres. At age 13 Elán started recordings with a major record label, Warner Music in Mexico.The Arista years through the recording of Street Child' (2000–2003)
BMGBMG
Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
International, Vice President of A&R, Richard Sweret flies Elán and Jan Carlo to meet then, Arista Records
Arista Records
Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
President & CEO Antonio L.A. Reid. After a private showcase in which Elán played "Perfect Life", L.A. Reid stated that the song was "the story of my life" and offered her a record deal. (After signing with Arista Records, Elán is assigned numerous A&R executives). Richard Sweret, (Elán 's A&R executive who brought her to Arista) leaves Arista Records, leaving Elán without representation in the company. Jan Carlo then hires former Aerosmith manager Wendy Leister to manage Elán through the turbulent Arista waters. Elán's second A&R representative at Arista Records, Pete Ganbarg leaves the company, again leaving Elán without representation. Josh Sarubin comes in as Elán's third A&R at Arista
Arista Records
Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
. He suggests that Elán find another producer "to work with other than her brother". Elán is sent on a search for a producer. Over a period of several months, Elán meets with producers in Los Angeles, New York and Virginia.
Elán records with producer Mark Howard, at his studio in Los Angeles, CA
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Legendary drummer Jim Keltner
Jim Keltner
James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...
plays the drums in those sessions. After that, Elán records with programmer/producer Olle Romo, at his studio in Los Angeles, CA
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Then, Elán flies to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and records with singer/songwriter and producer Fionn O'Lochlainn. But none of the tracks have ever been released.
Elán along with her brother travels to Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
, to begin recording what was going to be Street Child. Recording was interrupted by the events of September 11
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
. That fateful day, Elán was recording a song named "Crash". The song contains the lines: "And out my window I can see it all start to crash/So if we fall, we fall together, if we don’t survive." It was written almost a year earlier. The song has never been released. As soon as air traffic resumed over the United States, Elán flies to New York to play a show in aid of the American Red Cross for victims of the catastrophe of September, 11th. Elán returns to Virginia to continue with the recording sessions. The sessions never concluded.
Eventually, Elán leaves Arista Records. Soon after, Elán parts ways with her then manager, Wendy Laister. Elán and Jan Carlo head back home and begin to salvage an album from the numerous sessions they have recorded in different parts of the world. They find themselves back where they began... recording in their parents' spare bedroom. They re-track most of the album and are eventually joined by Elán's long time engineer Jeff "The Pirate" Poe. They mix the album over the next nine months. Originally slated to be titled "Some Kind Of Daydream" (after Elán's favorite Billie Holliday song "The Very Thought Of You" ), "Street Child" (a name that was thought of by Elán's mother reflecting Elán's state of mind after departing Arista) had come to life. Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until...
and ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash
Slash (musician)
Saul Hudson , known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with Guns N'...
hears the song Street Child from a mutual friend and makes known his desire to participate on the title track of Elán's album. The session was recorded at Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
Studios in Los Angeles, CA
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. in August 2002. While at the studio, they also shot parts of the "Street Child" video. Three years after arriving to the U.S.A. Elán's album is finally finished and mastered at Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
by Mark Chalecki.
Besides Slash, Street Child featured guest appearances by Grammy Award Winner and Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...
producer Brian Paulson, David Immerglück of Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band originating from Berkeley, California. Formed in 1991, the group gained popularity following the release of its debut album in 1993, August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones"...
, composer/arranger Eugenio Toussaint, Alan Weatherhead of Sparklehorse
Sparklehorse
Sparklehorse was an American indie rock band led by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous.-History:Sparklehorse's first album, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot featuring Bob Rupe of the Silos and Cracker, was a modest college radio success...
and mixed by Grammy Award Winning engineer Jeff "The Pirate" Poe.
Street Child (2003–2004)
On June 13, 2003, Elán's first single "Midnight" is released in Mexico on their own label, Silverlight Records (licensed through Sony Music Mexico) to an unprecedented response.Elán's single from her album reaches #1 in airplay in some Mexican territories. Midnight climbed the "Pepsi Chart" to #12. On MTV Latin America
MTV Latin America
MTV Latin America is a cable television specialty service aimed at residents in Hispanic American countries. It was launched on October 1, 1993 as MTV en Español. The channel is a Hispanic American version from MTV...
, Elán's video goes to the Top 10 Most Wanted and goes Top 10 on the Top 20 Countdown. In Australian radio, is the second most added song in its first week (second only to Eminem
Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
). The song reached number seven on the charts. Midnight goes top ten across the boards (all radio formats) in airplay in the country. In MTV Australia
MTV Australia
MTV Australia is 24 hour general entertainment channel specialising in music and youth culture programming which serves Australia and New Zealand. It is operated by Viacom International Media Networks Australia owned by Viacom and primarily features imported shows as well as locally produced...
it went to the Top Ten most requested and also went to #10 on the "Top 30 Countdown". Elán first releases her album in Mexico and then Australia.
Elán gave interviews and performs on many Mexican TV programs. She performed at award shows and special events such as Mexico's National Academy of Music's Oye Awards, the Eres Magazine 15 Year Anniversary Celebration and the Sanborn's 100th Anniversary Celebration. Elán travels throughout Mexico with her band, performing in Guadalajara, Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
, Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. It was established at the archeological site of Gualupita I by the Olmec, "the mother culture" of Mesoamerica, approximately 3200 years ago...
and Torreón
Torreón
Torreón is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2010, the city's population was 608,836 with 639,629 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent Durango,...
on what became known as the Street Child Tour. Along with friend and collaborator Juan Carlos Paz y Puente
Juan Carlos Paz y Puente
Juan Carlos Paz y Puente is a Mexican-born musician & educator. Professor Paz y Puente is the former Senior Vice President of Marketing and A&R director for Warner Music Mexico and is currently the Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Abbywho Foundation, .Prof...
, Elán travels to Mexico, to play at schools, to promote music education. The tour was sponsored by Fermatta Music Academy
Fermatta Music Academy
The Fermatta Music Academy is a private music university with campuses in Mexico City and Guadalajara Mexico. Founded in 1993, it is the only music university in Mexico to give bachelor's degrees in contemporary music certified by Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education...
. Elán also performed in the preshow of the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America
MTV Video Music Awards Latin America
Premios MTV Latinoamérica was the Latin American version of the Video Music Awards. They were established in 2002 to celebrate the top music videos of the year in Latin America and the world. They are presented annually and broadcast live on MTV Networks Latin America...
2003 in Miami.
In Australia, Elán performed on The Panel, MTV Australia
MTV Australia
MTV Australia is 24 hour general entertainment channel specialising in music and youth culture programming which serves Australia and New Zealand. It is operated by Viacom International Media Networks Australia owned by Viacom and primarily features imported shows as well as locally produced...
, Channel V to name a few. Elán also performs two exclusive shows at "Boutique" in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
and "The Basement" in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
.
London Express (2005–2006)
The band decides to take a break before returning to the studio to record their second album. "After returning from a promo tour in Australia and several in Mexico... filming 5 videos and playing award shows, and touring and touring and playing everywhere we realized that life is short. We had been going nonstop since I was 16 and it was time for a break. We needed some rest and not only to be best friends but brother and sister, son and daughter too." The band takes a year to record the follow-up to the "Street Child" album. The line-up consists of drummer Michel Bitar, rhythm guitarist Jonathan Fraulin, bass player Carlos Padilla, and Jan Carlo on guitar. Elán plays piano and keyboards on the record. Titled London ExpressLondon Express
"Be Free" is the first single taken from the album London Express. It's also the opening song of that album....
, the album contains thirteen new tracks.
London Express finds its roots in the music of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
, which Elán has described as "the only band that really changed everything". Elán adopted rhythmic patterns and textures and recording techniques from the British Invasion of the 1960s and crafted her own tribute to British rock, one can even hear some people chanting Beatles lyrics on some of the tracks.
Be Free was the first single from the "London Express" album. The video for the "Be Free" single was directed by renowned director, animator and painter Chris Roth and was in high rotation in Latin America's largest Music Video Networks. The single itself did very well in Latin American radio stations, being at the top of the radio charts for several months.
"This Fool's Life" was the second single released from Elán's latest album "London Express". "This Fool's Life" was for several months the single in English with the highest rotation on the radio in many Latin American countries. Being one of the most listened to songs in English in countries like Mexico. The video for "This Fool's Life" was also an outstanding success. It broke several records in Music Video Networks like Telehit which is one of the largest music television networks in the world, broadcasting throughout Mexico, Central & South America, Europe and the United States, with a hisotric record breaking 12 weeks in the #1 position on the charts. In the entirety of Telehit's 13 year history no other video has come even close to Elan's 3 month #1 position on the chart by popular vote.
In Australia, Elan's "This Fool's Life" video debuted in the number one position in video streaming with over 100,000 streams for its first week in Australias' "Undercover", the most important music site in Australia. "This Fool's Life" had almost twice the amount of views in its debut week than all other videos. A third single "Whatever it Takes" was released on November 2006.
What Can Be Done At This Point (2007) and Shine (2008)
On May 8 Elán released her new album "What Can Be Done At This Point".The album consists of 10 new original tracks and includes the track "What Can Be Done At This Point", song that gives the name to the album and that offers a posthumous tribute to the crew of the space shuttle "Challenger". The track contains original audio of the transmission between the "Challenger" and mission control of the day of the unforgettable tragedy. The rights to this audio clip were granted by NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
.
The first single from the new album is titled "Don't Want You In".
The video for "Don't Want You In" jumped traight to the Top 10 charts in videos networks like "Telehit". It was directed by Gulliver Parascandolo who also directed the videos for "This Fool's Life" and "Whatever It Takes".
On September 10, 2007 Elán is awarded an Independent Diamond Record Award for the certified sale of 1.5 million copies of her music.
Shine (2008)
On March 10, 2008 Elan released their fourth album titled "Shine".On April 16 the band launched their "Elan Shine Tour 2008" which kicked off in Mexico. The "Elan Shine Tour 2008" is one of the most successful and longest running tours ever featured in Mexico by an independent band.
The tour in Mexico was originally programed for 14 shows but the tour was so successful that it was extended an additional month into June.
Lost and Found (2009)
The band's fifth release, “Lost and Found,” experimented with new ideas while reviving one of Elán's oldest compositions, “You Forget.”Recuerdos y Tequila (2009)
On 2009, Elán recorded her first album entirely sung in Spanish, called 'Recuerdos y Tequila' ('Memories and Tequila'). All of the songs are from artists like Fito PáezFito Páez
Rodolfo "Fito" Páez Ávalos is an Argentine popular rock and roll pianist, lyricist, Spanish language singer and film director.-Early career:...
and Juan Gabriel
Juan Gabriel
Alberto Aguilera Valadez , better known by his stage name Juan Gabriel , is a Mexican singer and songwriter who is one of the most famous living representatives of the Mexican ranchera, ballad, mariachi, and pop music....
. Elán said that "it was a personal necessity to sing in Spanish and offer songs that marked my life, some of them in a personal way and others like the ones of José Alfredo Jiménez
José Alfredo Jiménez
José Alfredo Jiménez was a Mexican singer-songwriter in the ranchera style whose songs are considered an integral part of Mexico's musical heritage....
, which my father used to hear".-a-sus-origenes-musicales-con-el-cd-recuerdos-y-tequila.htm
The first single is called "Al Lado del Camino" ("By side with the Road"), original of Páez. The video was shot in Mexico City, and features Mexican actors Carmen Salinas, Tony Dalton
Tony Dalton
Álvaro Luis Bernat Dalton is a television and movie actor, TV host of the program “No te Equivoques” with his partner Kristoff, producer and screenwriter, and currently co-starring in the Mexican version of the series Los Simuladores, produced by Grupo Televisa.- Career as an actor :Tony Dalton...
and Ana de la Reguera
Ana de la Reguera
Anabell Gardoqui "Ana" de la Reguera is a Mexican actress who has starred in telenovelas, films and the HBO television series Eastbound & Down.-Early life:...
.
LPs
- Street ChildStreet ChildStreet Child is a debut album by Mexican alternative rock vocalist, Elan. It contains her biggest hit, Midnight.Ricardo Burgos from Sony Music called Street Child "a history making release in Latin America".-Re-edition track listing:...
(2003) - London ExpressLondon Express"Be Free" is the first single taken from the album London Express. It's also the opening song of that album....
(2005) - What Can Be Done at This PointWhat Can Be Done at This Point"Don't Want You in" is the lead single from the album What Can Be Done at This Point. It's also the sixth track on that album....
(2007) - ShineShine (Elan album)Shine is the fourth album by Mexican alternative rock singer, Elan. The album was released in March 2008. The lead single from this album is a track also entitled Shine and was released in February 2008.-Track listing:# I Love Love# Still Breathing...
(2008) - Lost And FoundLost And FoundLost and Found is a Christian band formed in Niagara Falls, New York in 1986. The duo consists of two members: Michael Bridges and George Baum . They have released eleven major studio albums through Limb Records, their independent record label...
(2009) - Recuerdos y Tequila (2009)
- Regular Weird People (2011)
Singles
| Title | Album |
|---|---|
| "Midnight Midnight (Elan song) "Midnight" is the first single taken from the album Street Child by Mexican alternative rock singer Elan. It was released in Mexico on June 13, 2003. Elan fans brought 3 national servers down in Mexico with email requests for this song. This single reached #1 in airplay in most Mexican territories... " |
Street Child Street Child Street Child is a debut album by Mexican alternative rock vocalist, Elan. It contains her biggest hit, Midnight.Ricardo Burgos from Sony Music called Street Child "a history making release in Latin America".-Re-edition track listing:... |
| "Street Child" | |
| "Hideaway" | |
| "Time" | |
| "They Came From the City" | |
| "Be Free" | London Express London Express "Be Free" is the first single taken from the album London Express. It's also the opening song of that album.... |
| "This Fool's Life" | |
| "Whatever It Takes" | |
| "Don't Want You in" | What Can Be Done at This Point What Can Be Done at This Point "Don't Want You in" is the lead single from the album What Can Be Done at This Point. It's also the sixth track on that album.... |
| "Made Myself Invisible" | |
| "This Time Around" | |
| "Shine" | Shine Shine (Elan album) Shine is the fourth album by Mexican alternative rock singer, Elan. The album was released in March 2008. The lead single from this album is a track also entitled Shine and was released in February 2008.-Track listing:# I Love Love# Still Breathing... |
| "Keep Me Up Late" | |
| "Lost and Found" | Lost & Found |
| "Al lado del camino" | Recuerdos y Tequila |