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You Are the Universe

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B-side
  
Remix

Recorded
  
1997 (1997)

Length
  
4:11 (Album version)

Format
  
12" CD MCD

Genre
  
Acid jazz funk

Released
  
14 June 1997 (1997-06-14)

"You Are the Universe" is a song by The Brand New Heavies, released in 1997. The composition was issued as the third single taken from Shelter, which remains the Brand New Heavies only album recorded with Siedah Garrett, who afterwards left the group to concentrate on her own songwriting. The song charted at number twenty-one in UK, respectively at number eleven within the British Chart-Track.

Contents

Credits and personnel

  • Brand New Heavies – lead vocals, producer
  • Andrew Levy – writer
  • Siedah Garrett – writer
  • Spike Stent – mix
  • Henry Binns – programming
  • Boyowa "Yoyo" Olugbo – engineer
  • Full Flava version

    "You Are the Universe" was covered by Rob Derbyshire and Paul Mullings, the Birmingham’s R&B production duo better known as Full Flava. It features vocals by CeCe Peniston. The Flava's version was remixed by DJ Hasebe, a Japanese hip-hop producer, and issued only on vinyl in the Japan.

    The song was included on the Flava's album Music Is Our Way Of Life, which reconstructed eleven dancefloor classics performed by various female vocalists, released on Dôme Records the following year, in 2007.

    Credits and personnel

  • CeCe Peniston – lead vocal
  • Rob Derbyshire - producer
  • Full Flava - mix
  • Hasebe Daisuke - remix, co-producer
  • Sony Music Publishing - publisher
  • Track listings and formats

    12", UK, #12 DOME 769
    1. "You Are the Universe" (Universal Flava Mix) - 5:02
    2. "You Are the Universe" (Radio Edit) - 3:49
    12", JP, #12 DOME 770
    1. "You Are the Universe" (DJ Hasebe Remix) - 4:56
    2. "You Are the Universe" (DJ Hasebe Instrumental Mix) - 4:56
    MD, UK, #(–)
    1. "You Are the Universe" (LP Version) - 5:23
    2. "You Are the Universe" (Universal Flava Mix) - 5:02
    3. "You Are the Universe" (Radio Edit) - 3:49

    References

    You Are the Universe Wikipedia