Praise, formed in 1991 in London

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, England

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, were a new-age music

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 group

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, comprising Geoff MacCormack, Simon Goldenberg and Miriam Stockley

Miriam Stockley

Miriam Stockley is a British singer. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and her work is influenced by the African music in her home country. Her unique vocalese style gained international acclaim when Karl Jenkins' launched the "Adiemus" project with "Songs of Sanctuary", featuring...

. The group was considered to be foundational in the genre of Ethnic Electronica

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.

Praise released one self-titled album

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 in 1991, produced

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, engineered

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 and mixed

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 by Richard James Burgess

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. Praise combined European dance

Dance music

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 beats with a variety of traditional world

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 samples and styles along with Miriam Stockley

Miriam Stockley

Miriam Stockley is a British singer. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and her work is influenced by the African music in her home country. Her unique vocalese style gained international acclaim when Karl Jenkins' launched the "Adiemus" project with "Songs of Sanctuary", featuring...

's vocals, in a manner that was continued by artists such as Enigma

Enigma (musical project)

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, Deep Forest

Deep Forest

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 and Adiemus

Adiemus

-Concept:Each Adiemus album is a collection of song-length pieces featuring harmonised vocal melody against an orchestral background. There are no lyrics as such: instead the vocalists sing syllables and 'words' invented by Jenkins...

 (which also featured Stockley's vocals). The tracks segue using soundscape elements, and the album was one of the few ever to be mixed using Qsound

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 which provided virtual surround sound out of a pair of stereo speakers. MacCormack and Goldenberg arranged and performed many of the instrumental

Instrumental

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 parts, the latter providing the necessary computer programming. Stockley arranged and performed the lead and many backing vocals

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. All three have writing

Songwriter

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 credits for Praise, and were supplemented by other specialised world performers.

"Only You", the second track from Praise, was used for a commercial for the Fiat Tempra

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. It was subsequently remixed by producers Andreas Georgiou (cousin

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 of George Michael

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) and Peter Lorrimer, and went on to become a hit single

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, peaking at #4 in the UK Singles Chart

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, and featured in new-age compilation album

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s. Stockley's vocals

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 for this track were sampled

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 extensively in the 2000 dance

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 track, "Fiji", by Atlantis, which peaked at #52 in the UK

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 chart

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. In the same year, they released the single "Dream On".

Praise disbanded some time after Praise was released; Stockley went on to performing lead vocals in Karl Jenkins

Karl Jenkins

-Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...

's Adiemus

Adiemus

-Concept:Each Adiemus album is a collection of song-length pieces featuring harmonised vocal melody against an orchestral background. There are no lyrics as such: instead the vocalists sing syllables and 'words' invented by Jenkins...

albums.