I Can't Make You Love Me
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"I Can't Make You Love Me" is a 1991
popular song, written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin
and recorded by Bonnie Raitt
on her Luck of the Draw
album from that year. In August 2000, Mojo
magazine voted "I Can't Make You Love Me" #8 on its The 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time list. The song is ranked #331 on the Rolling Stone
magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
songwriters, who according to some accounts originally wrote the song as a fast, bluegrass
number. Upon slowing down the tempo considerably, they realized the song gained considerable power. It then made its way to Raitt.
A pensive ballad
, "I Can't Make You Love Me" was recorded against a quiet electric piano
-based arrangement, with prominent piano
fills and interpolations supplied by Bruce Hornsby
. The singer depicts a now one-sided romantic relationship about to end in soft but brutally honest terms:
Raitt recorded the vocal in just one take in the studio, later saying that it was so sad a song that she could not recapture the emotion: "We'd try to do it again and I just said, 'You know, this ain't going to happen.'"
The song was a big hit for Raitt, reaching #18 on the Billboard Hot 100
and #6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and placing on the Billboard Year-End
chart for 1992. The song's popularity helped solidify her remarkable late-in-career commercial success that had begun two years before. In the time since, "I Can't Make You Love Me" has gone on to become a pop standard and a mainstay of adult contemporary radio formats.
For Raitt, the song was notoriously difficult to sing, due to its required vocal range, difficult phrasing and breathing, and the emotional content involved. At the televised Grammy Awards of 1992
Raitt performed it in an even more austere setting than on record, with just her and Hornsby highlighted. As she negotiated the final vocal line, she let out a big audible and visible sigh of relief that she had successfully gotten through it. Her live performance of the song was released on the 1994 album Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume III.
Raitt has continued to sing the song in all her concert tours:
described as instantly recognizable as Hornsby's work). On his own subsequent tours, Hornsby has included the song in some of his set lists, sometimes letting a female backing singer in his band to take on the vocal and sometimes singing it himself.
singer Nina
's self-titled fourth album. It was released in March 2007 by Warner Music Philippines
. The single was a success, peaking at number one on Philippine radio stations and singles charts. It is her second straight number one single from the album, the other being "Someday
".
It was released on digital download
through iTunes
and Amazon.com
.
praised the song in a review, saying "Bonnie Raitt’s anthemic song for the lovelorn is hard to top, but Nina gives a beautifully dressed-down version. It features simple, straightforward singing with guitar strumming in the background, and a last stanza that’s transposed twice to show off the singer’s stratospheric vocal range". Resty Odon of Titik Pilipino liked the simplicity on Nina's rendition of the song, stating "I like her version of 'I Can’t Make You Love Me'; she adds a delicate sheen to Bonnie Raitt’s original lament to love that’s not there and never will be".
, Bon Iver
, Will Downing
, Prince, Kevin Mahogany
, Bonnie Tyler
, Mary Coughlan
, Kenny Rogers
, Nancy Wilson, Kimberley Locke
, Patti Labelle
, Sophie Milman
, Boyz II Men
, Tank
, Nelson Rangell
, Jimmy Sommers, Candy Dulfer
, Arnee Hidalgo, Sarah Bettens
, Piotr Żaczek featuring Kuba Badach, Jill Johnson
, Heather Peace
, Adele
,and Gina G
to name a few. Mike Reid himself recorded the song on his 1992 album Twilight Town
. Indie folk
artist Bon Iver
covered the song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
and released his version on the single of 'Calgary' in 2011. A version by the band Venice
was featured over the end credits of the controversial film Boxing Helena
. Actress Maria Bello
sings a rendition of the song in the 2000 film Duets
as a character with a past reminiscent of the song's story. Paul Carrack
recorded a version of the song with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
for his album A Different Hat, released in 2010. It has become a popular selection for contestants in televised singing competitions such as American Idol
, Canadian Idol
, Nashville Star
, and Rock Star: INXS
. This song was performed by Idol contestants: Kimberley Locke
in Season 2, Constantine Maroulis
in Season 4, and Amy Krebs in Season 6, Allison Iraheta
in Season 8, as well as Nashville Season 5 winner Angela Hacker
and Canadian Idol season 3 contestant Amber Fleury
, who also recorded it for the Canadian Idol: High Notes cd. Moreover, Season 4 Idol winner Carrie Underwood
, Season 6 finalist Haley Scarnato
sang this song during their initial auditions. Contestant Stacey Solomon
sang the song during Season 6 of The X Factor
. Dutch X Factor finalists Adlicious sang this song in the final X Campus show. British singer Adele
covered the song at the ITunes Festival London 2011
during her Adele Live
tour..
1991 in music
See also:* 1991 in music Record labels established in 1991-Summary:The year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", becomes the most popular U.S. album of the year...
popular song, written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin
Allen Shamblin
Allen Shamblin is a country music songwriter who was born in Tennessee, and was brought up in Texas.After graduating from Sam Houston State University he worked in Austin as a real estate appraiser. In 1987, he quit his job and moved to Nashville to pursue a career as a song writer. He supported...
and recorded by Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
on her Luck of the Draw
Luck of the Draw (album)
Luck of the Draw is the eleventh album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1991 . After being nominated for Grammy awards in four different categories for the album Nick of Time, Raitt went for a creative retreat in Northern California to begin work on Luck of the Draw. "I did it on purpose to see if I...
album from that year. In August 2000, Mojo
Mojo (magazine)
MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...
magazine voted "I Can't Make You Love Me" #8 on its The 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time list. The song is ranked #331 on the Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Writing and Raitt recording
The idea for the song came to Reid while reading an article about a man arrested for getting drunk and shooting at his girlfriend's car. The judge asked him if he had learned anything, to which he replied, "I learned, Your Honor, that you can't make a woman love you if she don't." Reid and Shamblin were both country musicCountry music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
songwriters, who according to some accounts originally wrote the song as a fast, bluegrass
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
number. Upon slowing down the tempo considerably, they realized the song gained considerable power. It then made its way to Raitt.
A pensive 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...
, "I Can't Make You Love Me" was recorded against a quiet electric piano
Electric piano
An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
-based arrangement, with prominent piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
fills and interpolations supplied by Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and...
. The singer depicts a now one-sided romantic relationship about to end in soft but brutally honest terms:
- Turn down these voices, inside my head -
- Lay down with me ... tell me no lies.
- Just hold me close,
- don't patronize ... don't patronize me
- 'Cause I can't make you love me,
- If you don't.
Raitt recorded the vocal in just one take in the studio, later saying that it was so sad a song that she could not recapture the emotion: "We'd try to do it again and I just said, 'You know, this ain't going to happen.'"
The song was a big hit for Raitt, reaching #18 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
and #6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and placing on the Billboard Year-End
Billboard Year-End
Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year. Billboard's "chart year" runs from the first week of December to the final week in November...
chart for 1992. The song's popularity helped solidify her remarkable late-in-career commercial success that had begun two years before. In the time since, "I Can't Make You Love Me" has gone on to become a pop standard and a mainstay of adult contemporary radio formats.
For Raitt, the song was notoriously difficult to sing, due to its required vocal range, difficult phrasing and breathing, and the emotional content involved. At the televised Grammy Awards of 1992
Grammy Awards of 1992
The 34th Grammy Awards were held on February 26, 1992. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year . Natalie Cole was the big winner winning three awards including Album of the Year.-Award winners:*Record of the Year...
Raitt performed it in an even more austere setting than on record, with just her and Hornsby highlighted. As she negotiated the final vocal line, she let out a big audible and visible sigh of relief that she had successfully gotten through it. Her live performance of the song was released on the 1994 album Grammy's Greatest Moments Volume III.
Raitt has continued to sing the song in all her concert tours:
Hornsby use
Although Bruce Hornsby had no hand in writing the song, his piano part on it became associated with him (Phil CollinsPhil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
described as instantly recognizable as Hornsby's work). On his own subsequent tours, Hornsby has included the song in some of his set lists, sometimes letting a female backing singer in his band to take on the vocal and sometimes singing it himself.
Nina version
"I Can't Make You Love Me" is the final commercial single from FilipinoFilipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
singer Nina
Nina Girado
Marifil Niña Girado , better known by her stage name Nina, is a Filipino pop/R&B singer, occasional songwriter, record producer, TV and radio personality. She made her recording debut in 2002 after signing a recording contract with Warner Music Philippines...
's self-titled fourth album. It was released in March 2007 by Warner Music Philippines
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
. The single was a success, peaking at number one on Philippine radio stations and singles charts. It is her second straight number one single from the album, the other being "Someday
Someday (Nina Girado song)
"Someday" is a song by Filipino singer Nina from her 2006 self-titled fourth album. It was released as the album's second commercial single in November 2006 by Warner Music Philippines. The song was written and composed by Nyoy Volante, who was her boyfriend at that time, and it was produced by...
".
It was released on digital download
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
through iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
and Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
.
Critical reception
"I Can't Make You Love Me" was critically acclaimed. Among songs from Nina (the album), it received overwhelming positive reviews. Rito Asilo of Inquirer EntertainmentPhilippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...
praised the song in a review, saying "Bonnie Raitt’s anthemic song for the lovelorn is hard to top, but Nina gives a beautifully dressed-down version. It features simple, straightforward singing with guitar strumming in the background, and a last stanza that’s transposed twice to show off the singer’s stratospheric vocal range". Resty Odon of Titik Pilipino liked the simplicity on Nina's rendition of the song, stating "I like her version of 'I Can’t Make You Love Me'; she adds a delicate sheen to Bonnie Raitt’s original lament to love that’s not there and never will be".
Music video
The music video for "I Can't Make You Love Me" has a sullen and dark plot. It is in black-and-white, where Nina is seen wearing a black gown, running away and hiding from men wearing military-like suit and carrying weapons. Throughout the video, she is seen trying to escape the armed men.Remixes and other versions
| Version | Length | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Album version | 4:10 | Nina |
| Love Like Club Remix | 4:54 | Nina in the Mix: The Dense Modesto Remixes Nina in the Mix: The Dense Modesto Remixes Nina in the Mix: The Dense Modesto Remixes is the first remix album by Filipino singer Nina, and the second by DJ Dense Modesto. It was released in the Philippines on October 31, 2007 by Club Myx, in collaboration with Warner Music... |
Other versions
"I Can't Make You Love Me" has also been recorded by a number of other artists, including George MichaelGeorge Michael
George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
, Bon Iver
Bon Iver
Bon Iver is a Grammy nominated folk band founded in 2007 by American indie folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. It includes Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, and Matthew McCaughan. Vernon released Bon Iver's debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago independently in July 2007. The majority of that album was...
, Will Downing
Will Downing
Will Downing , is an American singer-songwriter and producer. Downing is known in the contemporary jazz and R&B music genres for his rich baritone vocals, and his interpretations of R&B and pop classics that stretch back to the early 1980s...
, Prince, Kevin Mahogany
Kevin Mahogany
Kevin Mahogany is an American jazz vocalist who became prominent in the 1990s. He is known for his scat singing, and his singing style has been compared with jazz singers Joe Williams and Johnny Hartman....
, Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...
, Mary Coughlan
Mary Coughlan (singer)
Mary Coughlan is an Irish jazz and folk singer and actress. She has received great acclamation in her native country, for her emotional and heartfelt jazzy musical renditions.-Background:...
, Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
, Nancy Wilson, Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Dawn Locke is an American singer-songwriter and model. She has recorded in the dance, pop and adult contemporary music genres....
, Patti Labelle
Patti LaBelle
Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...
, Sophie Milman
Sophie Milman
Sophie Milman is a Russian-born jazz vocalist who currently lives in Canada.After emigrating from Russia in the early 1990s, Milman, who is of Jewish heritage, spent most of her childhood years in Israel where she listened extensively to jazz...
, Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men is an American R&B vocal group best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies. They are the most successful R&B group of all time, having sold more than albums worldwide. In the 1990s, Boyz II Men found fame on Motown Records as a quartet, but original member Michael McCary...
, Tank
Tank (American singer)
Tank is an American R&B singer, songwriter and producer.-Career:Tank was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and moved with his family as a child to the Washington, D.C. suburb of Clinton, Maryland. He was a multi-sport athlete at Crossland High School and was offered the opportunity to play college...
, Nelson Rangell
Nelson Rangell
Nelson Rangell is an American velvet-smooth jazz musician and composer originally from Castle Rock, Colorado. Although Rangell is known for his work with the tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, his primary instrument is the piccolo flute, which he began playing at the age of 15...
, Jimmy Sommers, Candy Dulfer
Candy Dulfer
Candy Dulfer is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist who began playing at the age of six. She founded her band, Funky Stuff, when she was fourteen years old. Her debut album Saxuality received a Grammy Award nomination. Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation...
, Arnee Hidalgo, Sarah Bettens
Sarah Bettens
Sarah Bettens is the lead singer of the Belgian band K's Choice. Sarah and her brother Gert Bettens are the two popular faces of the band. She is known for her enigmatic, smoky voice. The band is popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and had toured in the U.S...
, Piotr Żaczek featuring Kuba Badach, Jill Johnson
Jill Johnson
Jill Anna Maria Johnson, , is a Swedish country- and pop-singer and songwriter. She performed the Melodifestivalen 1998 winning song Kärleken är, and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she again entered Melodifestivalen...
, Heather Peace
Heather Peace
Heather Peace is an English actress and musician.Her notable roles have included Anne Cullen in Emmerdale Farm, Josie Clarke in The Bill, Sally 'Gracie' Fields in London's Burning, DS Jo Cavanagh in Empathy and Fiona Jones in BBC Television's The Chase...
, Adele
Adele (singer)
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008...
,and Gina G
Gina G
-Albums:*1997 Fresh! — #12 UK #40 Norway.*1998 Gina G Remix Album *2005 Get Up & Dance -Singles:...
to name a few. Mike Reid himself recorded the song on his 1992 album Twilight Town
Twilight Town
Twilight Town is the second and final album by American country music singer and former American football player Mike Reid. It was released in 1992 via Columbia Records. It includes the singles "Keep On Walkin'" and "Call Home", which respectively reached #45 and #43 on the U.S...
. Indie folk
Indie folk
Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50s, 60s and early 70s, country music, and indie rock. A few early artists included Lou Barlow, Beck, Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith...
artist Bon Iver
Bon Iver
Bon Iver is a Grammy nominated folk band founded in 2007 by American indie folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. It includes Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, and Matthew McCaughan. Vernon released Bon Iver's debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago independently in July 2007. The majority of that album was...
covered the song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jimmy Fallon on NBC. The show premiered on March 2, 2009, as the third incarnation of the Late Night franchise originated by David Letterman....
and released his version on the single of 'Calgary' in 2011. A version by the band Venice
Venice (band)
Venice was started in Venice, California in 1977 by cousins Michael Lennon and Kipp Lennon . Michael's brother Mark joined the band in 1978, followed by Kipp's brother Pat in 1980. Kipp and Pat are two of eleven siblings, and are younger brothers of the Lennon Sisters...
was featured over the end credits of the controversial film Boxing Helena
Boxing Helena
Boxing Helena is a 1993 romantic drama film and the debut feature film by Jennifer Chambers Lynch, daughter of David Lynch. The film stars Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn as the eponymous Helena.-Plot:...
. Actress Maria Bello
Maria Bello
Maria Elena Bello is an American actress and singer known for her appearances in the movies Coyote Ugly, The Jane Austen Book Club, Permanent Midnight, Thank You for Smoking, A History of Violence, Payback, and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. For television she is known for her role as Dr...
sings a rendition of the song in the 2000 film Duets
Duets
An original motion picture soundtrack CD was released on September 12, 2000 by Hollywood Records. The CD contained twelve tracks including the original music composed for the film by David Newman....
as a character with a past reminiscent of the song's story. Paul Carrack
Paul Carrack
Paul Carrack is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Carrack has been a member of several bands including Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music, been a session and touring musician for several others including Nick Lowe, and has enjoyed success as a solo artist as well...
recorded a version of the song with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"...
for his album A Different Hat, released in 2010. It has become a popular selection for contestants in televised singing competitions such as American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
, Canadian Idol
Canadian Idol
Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...
, Nashville Star
Nashville Star
Nashville Star is an American reality television program. It was transmitted during mid-2008 on NBC, following five seasons on USA Network. It premiered on March 8, 2003, and its five seasons on USA made it the longest-running competition series on cable television. In Canada, the show aired on CMT...
, and Rock Star: INXS
Rock Star: INXS
Rock Star: INXS is the first season of the reality television show Rock Star where 15 contestants competed to become the lead vocalist for the Australian rock band INXS....
. This song was performed by Idol contestants: Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Locke
Kimberley Dawn Locke is an American singer-songwriter and model. She has recorded in the dance, pop and adult contemporary music genres....
in Season 2, Constantine Maroulis
Constantine Maroulis
Constantine James Maroulis is an American rock singer, actor, and writer from Wyckoff, New Jersey. He was the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of the reality television series American Idol, and lead vocalist of the hard rock band Pray for the Soul of Betty...
in Season 4, and Amy Krebs in Season 6, Allison Iraheta
Allison Iraheta
Allison Iraheta is an American singer from Los Angeles, California, who was the fourth place finalist on the eighth season of American Idol. Prior to Idol, Iraheta won the Telemundo competition Quinceañera: Mamá Quiero Ser Artista. Following the conclusion of Idol, Iraheta was signed to a record...
in Season 8, as well as Nashville Season 5 winner Angela Hacker
Angela Hacker
Angela Hacker is an American country music singer. In 2007, she was the winner of the USA Network talent show Nashville Star. Her brother Zac finished second the same year. She released an album via Warner Bros. Records in 2007, although it did not chart and produced no singles.-Biography:Angela...
and Canadian Idol season 3 contestant Amber Fleury
Amber Fleury
Amber Fleury was the eighth-place finisher in the third season of Canadian Idol, which aired during the summer of 2005. A native of Roblin, Manitoba, Amber now calls Calgary, Alberta home, where she is a paralegal.-Canadian Idol:...
, who also recorded it for the Canadian Idol: High Notes cd. Moreover, Season 4 Idol winner Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood
Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country singer-songwriter and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, in 2005...
, Season 6 finalist Haley Scarnato
Haley Scarnato
Haley Suzanne Scarnato is an American singer who was the 8th-place finalist on the sixth season of American Idol. Scarnato announced in an interview in November 2009, her album Strongheart was scrapped after she left her management, but is working on a new album and "Strongheart" was her old...
sang this song during their initial auditions. Contestant Stacey Solomon
Stacey Solomon
Stacey Solomon is a British singer, television presenter, model and reality TV star. She rose to fame during her time on the sixth series of The X Factor, coming third overall on the show...
sang the song during Season 6 of The X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
. Dutch X Factor finalists Adlicious sang this song in the final X Campus show. British singer Adele
Adele (singer)
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008...
covered the song at the ITunes Festival London 2011
ITunes Festival London 2011
The iTunes Festival London 2011 was a music festival held at The Roundhouse, London, England.-Lineup :* 1/7 Paul Simon* 2/7 Seasick Steve* 3/7 Manic Street Preachers + Dry The River + Ramona + Ukulele for Dummies...
during her Adele Live
Adele Live
Adele Live is the second concert tour by English recording artist Adele. Visiting Europe and North America, the tour supports her second studio album, 21. Adele is backed by a five-piece band and backing singers, whilst for some songs she is accompanied by piano only. The stage design features...
tour..