Smile! (Vitas album)

Smile! (Улыбнись!, Ulybnis!) is a Russian album by Vitas (Витас), released in 2002. Several songs from this album featured in his Philosophy of Miracle concert programme, whose performance at the Kremlin earned Vitas a record as the youngest artist to perform a solo concert at the State Kremlin Palace; a DVD of this concert was later released.

Contents

• Vitas smile
• Vitas presentation of the album smile vtv
• Songs
• References

The title track won the Russian Golden Gramophone and People's Hit awards.

Good-bye was released as a single, which included 5 different mixes of the song, the tracks Ave Maria and Byelorussia, and the music video for Opera #1 from his previous album Philosophy of Miracle. Good-bye is notable for Vitas' extreme bass vocals, in contrast to his more usual high-pitched vocals. Blessed Guru (sometimes translated Blissful Guru) also exercises his seldom-used bass range. The song titles Good-bye and Do Svidaniya (Russian: До свидания, usually listed in English as See You Later, as in the track listing here) can cause some confusion because the latter is often translated as Goodbye

It also includes Vitas' rendition of Ave Maria by Franz Schubert with a contrasting hellish operatic ending; a shortened version without this ending was included in Vitas' 2010 compilation album Masterpieces of Three Centuries.