Released 1994 Artist Renato Russo Label EMI | Length 68:55 Release date June 1994 Genre Rock music | |
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Recorded The album was recorded and mixed late February and March 1994, at Discover Studio, Rio de Janeiro. The Stonewall Celebration Concert
(1994) Equilíbrio Distante
(1995) Producers Carlos Trilha, Renato Russo Similar Renato Russo albums, Rock music albums | ||
Renato russo lbum the stonewall celebration concert
The Stonewall Celebration Concert is the debut studio album by Renato Russo, released in 1994. The album had a sale of 250,000 copies in the first year of its release. Russo does covers of Madonna, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Billy Joel, among others.
Contents
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Social: Tribute and donation
The album was a tribute to twenty five years of the Stonewall riots in New York. Part of the royalties were donated to Ação da Cidadania Contra a Fome, a Miséria e Pela Vida (Citizen Action Against Hunger and Poverty and for Life) campaign.
The booklet provides information twenty-nine social entities, including the Grupo Gay da Bahia, ISER (Instituto de Estudos da Religião/Institute of Religious Studies), Greenpeace, Sociedade Viva Cazuza (Cazuza Viva Society) and ABIA (Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS/Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association).
Songs
The repertoire brings standards of American music and songs featured in films - of which many were part of his musical education. Some of the songs included are: "Cathedral Song", Tanita Tikaram's music phenomenon of the 90's; "Miss Celie's Blues", from the soundtrack of The Color Purple, composed by Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton; his own version of the theme of Walt Disney's Pinocchio, "When You Wish upon a Star", written by Ned Washington and Leigh Harline;"Cherish", Madonna's success, but with a more folk tune and his strong vocal impression; and Bob Dylan's record "If You See Her, Say Hello", from the original 1975 album Blood on the Tracks, with the title changed to "If You See Him, Say Hello".
Personnel
Technical staff
Songs
1Send In the Clowns3:43
2Clothes Of Sand2:44
3Cathedral Song2:57