Over My Heart, released in 1993, is the seventh and final studio album

Album

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 by singer Laura Branigan

Laura Branigan

Laura Ann Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control"...

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Over My Heart was Branigan's most personal album and saw her again try her hand at producing, alongside successful producer Phil Ramone

Phil Ramone

Phil Ramone is a South-African violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.-Biography:As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten...

. While the 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...

-penned "Love Your Girl" was aimed for the clubs that made her famous, the album was ballad-heavy, including the opener "How Can I Help You To Say Goodbye"; the Spanish-language "Mujer Contra Mujer"; "Mangwane (The Wedding Song)" (taught to her by her friend Stevie Godson, who was also the executive producer on the track), sung in Sotho, a South African language, and recorded there with the Mmabana Children's Choir; and several of her own compositions, "Didn't We Almost Win It All" and "Over You."

Track listing

Personnel

• Laura Branigan: vocals
  Singing
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  , background vocals
• Children's chorus: Beatrice Akuoko, Dela Amuzu, Gloria Ayee, Manuela Ayee, John:Carol Bukenya, Ann Davis, Rena Davis, Slaveca Gavrilovic, Khumo Khaole, Malebogo Felicity Mabille, Bruce Molema, Mpho Pharasi, Mokgoberg Refilwe Phirwa, Thenjiwe Roda, Refilwe Roselinda Moiloa, Golda Schultz, Barbara Sentongo, Sphumele Sibeko, Khanyisa Thakula
• Vocals: Jacob Bantsejang, Gladys Kgadiete, Bushy Monakwane, Grace Msumbu, Patricia Tong, Ingrid Tubo
• Choir: John:Benjamin Bukrnya, Christina Luboyera, Neo Carol Matte, Valetnine Kgothatso Motlhabi
• Background vocals: Billy Branigan, Jill Dell'Abate, Rory Dodd, Joy Francis, Karen Kamon, Curtis King, Charles Mangold
• Drums
  Drum kit
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  : Tony Beard, Kevin Wells
• Keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  : Brian BecVar, Jeff Jacobs, Clay Ostwald, Eric Rehl, Peter "Ski" Schwartz
• Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  : Billy Branigan, Jorge Casas, Bushy Monakwane
• Acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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  : Billy Branigan, Charlton Pettus, David Spinozza
  David Spinozza
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• Electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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  : John McCurry
• Alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
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  : Dave Greenfield, Jeff Greenfield, Steve Greenfield
• Percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  : Bashiri Johnson
• Tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
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  : Lenny Pickett

Production

• Producers: Laura Branigan, Billy Branigan, Jorge Casas, Clay Ostwald, Phil Ramone
  Phil Ramone
  Phil Ramone is a South-African violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.-Biography:As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten...
  
  , Stevie Godson
• Engineers: Charles Dye, Danny Grigsby, Lolly Grodner, Richard Mitchell, Clay Ostwald
• Assistant engineer: Louis Alfred III, Jim Caruana, Sean Chambers, Tom Fritze, Alister Glyn, Andy Grassi, Ron London, Jennifer Monnar, Michael Thompson
• Mixing: Danny Grigsby, Lolly Grodner, Jay Healy, Andy Smith
• Mixing Assistant: Andy Smith
• Mastering: Greg Calbi
• Programming: Jorge Casas, Ray McDonald, Clay Ostwald
• Project coordinator: Jill Dell'Abate
• Sampling: Ray McDonald, Roy McDonald
• Arranger: Laura Branigan, Billy Branigan, Jorge Casas, Jeff Jacobs, Clay Ostwald, Phil Ramone, Eric Rehl, Peter "Ski" Schwartz
• Computers: Roy McDonald