Piece Of My Soul

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Personnel: Peer Astrom (guitar, piano, keyboards, drums, programming, background vocals); Sebastian Nylund (guitar, background vocals); Esbjorn Ohrwall, Karl Falk (guitar); Stockholm Session Strings, Ulf Forsberg (strings); Anders Barren (keyboards, bass guitar); Kristian Lundin (keyboards, programming); Sarah Dawn Finer, Nana Hedin, Andreas Carlsson, Emil Heiling (background vocals); Carl Falk, Jake Schultz, Jimmy Kallkvist, Jennie Lovgren, S.N.Y.K.O., Patrik Lundstrom, Linda Norrgard. Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Chris Brooke; Francois Eric Lalonde; Niklas Flyckt; Jake Schultz; Humberto Gatica; Kristian Lundin; Peer Astrom . Recording information: 301; Atlantis, Stockholm, Sweden; Cosmos Studio; Decibel, Stockholm, Sweden; Masterplan Studios, Stockholm, Sweden; Shortlist; Studios Piccolo, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Swedish Radio Studio; The Hit Factory, Miami, FL; The Location Studios, Stockholm, Sweden; Wolfgang Studio. Photographer: Raphael Mazzucco. Something of a protege of Celine Dion (he's managed by her husband and manager, Rene Angelil, and made his commercial breakthrough with a 2000 duet with Dion, "Sous le Vent"), Quebecois adult contemporary singer Garou (born Pierre Garand) has until now stuck to the French-language market. Piece of My Soul is his first English-language album, and it follows a similar formula to Dion's push into the Anglophone market a little over a decade before, featuring songs by Dion's core stable of songwriters (including 1980s one-hit wonder Aldo Nova, who co-wrote the title track and "Coming Home") as well as tracks by bigger names. Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas wrote the first single, the pop/rocker "Stand Up" (not a cover of the Ludacris single of the same name, which would have been as much a hoot as Dion's ill-advised take on AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"), and the dramatic ballad "First Day of My Life" (already a 2006 hit for ex-Spice Girl Melanie C) was written by Enrique Iglesias. The pleasant songs and glossy radio-ready arrangements here seem quite calculated toward the American adult contemporary market. ~ Stewart Mason