https://youtu.be/b_zHQ6kFuQ0?si=seUQIsDhr86xDmb5&t=38
I am sure many of you do not remember a gray chilly morning in New York City when a cameraman focused on an attractive woman walking down the street near the then Madison Square Garden and she began singing... Jennifer Rush was that woman and the song she was singing was "THE POWER OF LOVE"! - I bring that song to you now in remembrance of a time gone by... as a part of my "Music Interlude".

"Jennifer Rush was born Heidi Stern in the New York City borough of Queens and has two older brothers, Robert "Bobby" Stern and Stephen Stern (both professional musicians). And a younger sister. She and her brothers lived with their mother only until Rush was a toddler, and then with their father and his second wife on the Upper West Side of the borough of Manhattan. Rush studied violin at the Juilliard School and also took piano lessons, although she did not enjoy these instruments and instead took to playing the guitar in private. When Rush was nine, the Stern family moved to Germany. Jennifer returned to the United States a few years later to live with her mother's Italian family. She also lived for a time in Seattle, Washington, when her father was briefly a professor of voice at the University of Washington.

Jennifer was first signed to CBS Songs Publishing Company as a songwriter in Frankfurt, Germany. At that time she was working for almost two years full time in the military in Munich. She has never had vocal training, however is proficient in music theory due to her two years in the children's orchestra as first violinist.

It was the co-written single "The Power of Love", the fifth and last single release from her debut studio album, that became the biggest selling single of 1985 in the United Kingdom, as well as becoming a significant hit in Australia, Ireland, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, and Sweden, and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records at the time as the best-selling single by a female solo artist in the history of the British music industry. "The Power of Love" held that status until 1992, when it was outsold by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You".

"The Power of Love" reached number one for several weeks in Australia, South Africa and numerous European countries. Though it reached number one or the top ten in several other countries, Rush's version peaked at number 57 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. After several cover versions by other acts (including Laura Branigan), Celine Dion's version made a US chart impact in 1994, reaching number one in the US, as well as number one in Canada and Australia." Read more at Wikipedia.com...

Kerry H - LINK: https://youtu.be/b_zHQ6kFuQ0?si=seUQIsDhr86xDmb5&t=38


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