"Heaven's What I Feel" is a song by Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...

, released as the first single from her eighth studio album

Studio album

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 gloria!

Gloria!

gloria! is the eighth studio album released by American singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan, released in 1998 by Epic Records .-Album history:gloria! is a groove-oriented, exuberant, Disco influenced album...

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Song history

The song is a ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

 with a dance

Dance

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 background. It was first offered to Celine Dion

Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

 to be recorded, but she turned it down. Gloria recorded it instead and included on her then upcoming album gloria!

Gloria!

gloria! is the eighth studio album released by American singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan, released in 1998 by Epic Records .-Album history:gloria! is a groove-oriented, exuberant, Disco influenced album...

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The song was released as the first official single from the album and was recorded in three languages: English

English language

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, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. The Spanish version titled "Corazón Prohibido

Corazón Prohibido

"Corazón Prohibido" is a song by Gloria Estefan, released as the first single from her eighth studio album Gloria! in Latin America, instead of "Heaven's What I Feel".-Song history:...

" was released as a single in Spain

Spain

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, where it topped the charts. The French version titled "Amour Infini" was only available on the European, Canadian and British album edition as a bonus track. The song peaked at number twenty-seven in the U.S.

The B-side of the single was the "Gloria Hitmix", which had not been available in any other single issue since. There were two different versions of the song: "Radio Edit" and "Full Version" (this mix includes the songs: "I'm Not Giving You Up

I'm Not Giving You Up

"I'm Not Giving You Up" is a song by Gloria Estefan, released as her third single from her seventh studio album Destiny.-Song history:This ballad was released as the third single from the album, this song was popular more by its single remix which appears in Estefan's 2001 Greatest Hits Vol...

", "Reach", "You'll Be Mine (Party Time)

You'll Be Mine (Party Time)

"You'll Be Mine " is a song by Gloria Estefan, released as a the second single from her seventh studio album Destiny, in 1996.-Song history:...

", "Mi Tierra

Mi Tierra (song)

"Mi Tierra" was the first single released by Gloria Estefan on her first Spanish album Mi Tierra, it was written by Estefano based on inspirations by Estefan.-Song history:...

", "Live for Loving You

Live for Loving You

"Live for Loving You" is a single by Cuban American singer and songwriter Gloria Estefan. It was released in 1991 worldwide as the fourth and last single from her third solo album Into the Light.-Song history:...

", "Tres Deseos

Tres Deseos

"Tres Deseos" is a song by Gloria Estefan, released as a promotional single from her second Spanish album, Abriendo Puertas.-Song history:...

", "Everlasting Love

Everlasting Love

"Everlasting Love" is a song written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden that has been a hit for various artists, including Robert Knight, Carl Carlton, Love Affair, and Gloria Estefan.- Overview :...

" and "Turn the Beat Around

Turn the Beat Around

In 1994 , the song was recorded by Gloria Estefan for the soundtrack to the film The Specialist. Released as a single, it became a hit reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also featured on Estefan's fourth solo album Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me. She also sang the song as her opening...

").

The single received a massive promotion. Estefan first performed the song at the 1998 VH1 Divas

VH1 Divas

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 Live where she received a standing ovation for her performance; she also performed at the Studio 54

Studio 54

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 in New York

New York

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. Then she sang it again at the 1998 World Music Awards

World Music Awards

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 in Monaco

Monaco

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 where she was the hostess of the event. Then it was promoted in a lot of television programs around the world.

Featured

The song was included in the movie Dance with Me

Dance with Me (film)

Dance with Me is a 1998 drama film on love and dance directed by Randa Haines and starring Vanessa L. Williams and Puerto Rican singer Chayanne.-Plot:...

(starring Vanessa L. Williams

Vanessa L. Williams

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 and Chayanne

Chayanne

Elmer Figueroa Arce , best known under the stage name Chayanne, is a Puerto Rican Latin pop singer and actor. As a solo artist, Chayanne has released 21 solo-albums and sold over 20 million albums worldwide.-Early life:...

) soundtrack.

Music Video

The music video was filmed in a "space" style and shows Gloria flying in one scene, and dancing at a club in another. The video received the Alma Award

Alma Award

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 for "Best Outstanding Video".

Grammy Nomination

The song was nominated for the Grammy Music Award for "Best Dance Recording" but lost to Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

's smash hit "Ray of Light

Ray of Light (song)

A high-speed electronic dance song, "Ray of Light" has received stylistic comparisons to rave, psychedelic and acid music. The track contains strong techno elements, as well as disco, trance and Eurodance influences, and it sees Madonna deepen her dance roots and go for a more electronic sound...

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Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Heaven's What I Feel".

US CD Maxi single (49K 78908)

1. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Radio Edit)
2. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Love To Infinity Classic Radio Mix)
3. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Victor Calderone Radio Mix)
4. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Soul Solution Radio Mix)
5. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Victor Calderone Mix)
6. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Soul Solution Vox Mix)
7. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Trouser Enthusiasts Neanderthal Thrust Mix)

Japan CD Maxi single (ESCA 6942)

1. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Radio Edit)
2. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Love To Infinity's Classic Radio Mix)
3. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Victor Calderone Radio Mix)
4. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Soul Solution Radio Mix)
5. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Victor Calderone Mix)
6. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Soul Solution Vox Mix)
7. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Trouser Enthusiasts Neanderthal Thrust Mix)
8. "Gloria's Hitmix" (Edit)

Australia CD maxi single (665741 2)

1. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Radio Edit)
2. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Love To Infinity Classic Radio Mix-Short)
3. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Love To Infinity Classic Radio Mix)
4. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Love To Infinity Rhino Mix)
5. "Heaven's What I Feel" (Soul Solution Vox Mix)
6. "Corazóon Prohibido" (Pablo Flores Spanish 12" Remix)

Release history

Region	Date
United Kingdom
World
Japan

Charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Australia Top 40 Singles Chart	34
Belgium Ultratop 50 Singles Chart	30
Eurochart Hot 100	64
Germany Top 100 Singles Chart	85
Japan Top 40 Singles Chart	16
Netherlands Top 40 Singles Chart	27
Switzerland Top 100 Singles Chart	38
UK Top 75 Singles Chart	17
U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot 100	27
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	7
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	6
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	4

Official versions

Original versions

1. Album Version — 5:05
2. Radio Edit #1 - 4:37
3. Radio Edit #2 - 4:07
4. Ballad Version - 4:28
5. Spanish Version — 5:05
6. Spanish Radio Edit — 4:34
7. Spanish Ballad Version — 5:05
8. French Version — 5:05

Remixes

1. Pablo Flores English Mix - 5:03
2. Pablo Flores Spanish Mix - 5:03
3. Pablo Flores Spanish 12" Mix - 7:10
4. Love To Infinity Classic Paradise Mix - 6:10
5. Love To Infinity Classic Radio Edit #1 — 5:01
6. Love To Infinity Classic Radio Edit #2 — 3:32
7. Love To Infinity Classic Radio US Edit - 5:05
8. Love To Infinity Rhino Mix - 7:11
9. Victor Calderone Mix - 8:32
10. Victor Calderone Radio Mix - 4:00
11. Victor Calderone Dub - 7:00
12. Soul Solution Vox Mix - 9:30
13. Soul Solution Radio Mix - 4:00
14. Soul Solution NRG Dub - 5:00
15. Trouser Enthusiasts Neanderthal Thrust Mix - 10:54
16. Prince Quick Mix's Amped Up Pass - 6:00
17. Prince Quick Mix's Subaquatic Dub - 6:20