One Determined Heart
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One Determined Heart is the debut studio album by Australian singer Paulini, released in Australia on 23 July 2004. The album was produced by Audius Mtawarira
and has a genre of R&B & pop
songs. The album mainly cover songs including some by Jeff Healey
, TLC, The Four Tops, Barbra Streisand
, Jeff Buckley
and Bonnie Raitt
. It was originally to have included a cover of the Negativland
hit "U2", but this was rejected by her record company. The album debuted at number-one on the ARIA Albums Chart
making it her highest selling album to date. The singles
released from the album became hits in Australia; "Angel Eyes" becoming her first number-one single and "We Can Try
" becoming her second top thirty single. "Angel Eyes" was nominated at the 2004 ARIA Awards for "Highest Selling Single" and won her two ARIA #1 Chart Awards, both for the single and album.
, or are you going to come out with something like Mariah
? This album is very different. I love R&B but I love to sing other stuff, like old soul
and funk
. I'm just happy that I've got all different styles on the album - it's about who I am, because I enjoy singing every musical genre." She also states "I absolutely love those songs [on the album]. I just wanted to try and do something different to them. They were a little hard, because the artists are so good. I basically just sung them the way I would sing them, with my kind of tone, so that listeners would instantly know it was me."
on 30 July 2004 at number-one It stayed at number-one for two weeks and had gone gold selling about thirty-five thousand copies around Australia. The album was certified platinum for 70, 000 copies shipped in Australia. It was the eighty-sixth best selling album in Australia for 2004.
Audius Mtawarira
Audius Mtawarira, is a multi-ARIA Award winning Australian record producer, composer, artist and songwriter more commonly known as "Audius".-Biography:...
and has a genre of R&B & pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
songs. The album mainly cover songs including some by Jeff Healey
Jeff Healey
Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist who attained musical and personal popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...
, TLC, The Four Tops, Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
, Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
and 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...
. It was originally to have included a cover of the Negativland
Negativland
Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...
hit "U2", but this was rejected by her record company. The album debuted at number-one on the ARIA Albums Chart
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
making it her highest selling album to date. The singles
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
released from the album became hits in Australia; "Angel Eyes" becoming her first number-one single and "We Can Try
We Can Try
"We Can Try" is the second single released from Australian singer Paulini's debut studio album, One Determined Heart. The song written by Jeneya Carr and Audius Mtawarira and was released physically on 1 October 2004....
" becoming her second top thirty single. "Angel Eyes" was nominated at the 2004 ARIA Awards for "Highest Selling Single" and won her two ARIA #1 Chart Awards, both for the single and album.
Background
The album reflects Paulini as a performer and a music lover and has a diverse collection of songs that have a variety of genres; covers and originals. She states "Because I did so many styles on Idol, people kept saying, are you going to come out with something like BeyonceBeyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...
, or are you going to come out with something like Mariah
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...
? This album is very different. I love R&B but I love to sing other stuff, like old soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
and funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
. I'm just happy that I've got all different styles on the album - it's about who I am, because I enjoy singing every musical genre." She also states "I absolutely love those songs [on the album]. I just wanted to try and do something different to them. They were a little hard, because the artists are so good. I basically just sung them the way I would sing them, with my kind of tone, so that listeners would instantly know it was me."
Chart performance
The album debuted on the ARIA Albums ChartARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
on 30 July 2004 at number-one It stayed at number-one for two weeks and had gone gold selling about thirty-five thousand copies around Australia. The album was certified platinum for 70, 000 copies shipped in Australia. It was the eighty-sixth best selling album in Australia for 2004.
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
Certification |
|---|---|---|
| ARIA Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
1 | Platinum |
Track listing
- "Angel Eyes" (John HiattJohn HiattJohn Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other...
, Fred Koller) – 4:01 - "If You Love Me" – 3:54
- "You Little Trustmaker" – 3:27
- "Baby I Need Your LovingBaby I Need Your Loving"Baby I Need Your Loving" is a 1964 hit single recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song was the group's first Motown single and their first pop Top 20 hit, making it to number eleven on the Billboard Hot...
" (Lamont DozierLamont DozierLamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...
, Brian HollandBrian HollandBrian Holland is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland. That songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops,...
, Eddie Holland) – 4:30 - "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"No More Tears " is a duet from 1979 by Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand. While Summer was famous for her disco material and Streisand for her more easy listening and soundtrack work , this song fused both sounds with a slow beginning which then develops into a disco song...
" featuring Rahsaan PattersonRahsaan PattersonRahsaan Patterson is an American singer and actor, best known for portraying "The Kid" on the popular 1980s television show Kids Incorporated. He is a native of The Bronx, New York. He was named after '60s jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk...
(Paul JabaraPaul JabaraPaul Jabara was an American actor, singer, and songwriter of Lebanese ancestry. He wrote Donna Summer's "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday and Barbra Streisand's song "The Main Event/Fight" from The Main Event...
, Bruce Roberts) – 5:31 - "Everybody Here Wants YouEverybody Here Wants You"Everybody Here Wants You" is the second track on the posthumous Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk album release by Jeff Buckley. It was written as a love song for Joan Wasser, his girlfriend at the time...
" (Jeff BuckleyJeff BuckleyJeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
) – 4:30 - "We Can TryWe Can Try"We Can Try" is the second single released from Australian singer Paulini's debut studio album, One Determined Heart. The song written by Jeneya Carr and Audius Mtawarira and was released physically on 1 October 2004....
" (Audius MtawariraAudius MtawariraAudius Mtawarira, is a multi-ARIA Award winning Australian record producer, composer, artist and songwriter more commonly known as "Audius".-Biography:...
, Jeneya Carr) – 3:59 - "I Can't Make You Love MeI Can't Make You Love Me"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...
" (Mike Reid, James Allen II ShamblinAllen ShamblinAllen 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...
) – 4:25 - "One More Night" – 3:36
- "Where You Are" – 4:29
- "WaterfallsWaterfalls (song)"Waterfalls" is a Grammy-nominated 1995 single by American musical trio TLC from their second album CrazySexyCool and arguably the group's signature song...
" (Marqueze Etheridge, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Organized NoizeOrganized NoizeOrganized Noize is an Atlanta-based American hip hop production company made up of Rico Wade, Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown.-History:Among the hit records they have worked on include TLC's "Waterfalls", En Vogue's "Don't Let Go ", and Ludacris' "Saturday "...
) – 4:59 - "One Determined Heart" – 3:39