In the winter of 2002, songwriter/producer Ayhan Sahin asked his friend and colleague Larry Dvoskin to recommend a singer to record vocals on a song he had composed, “Forget Tomorrow.”
It was never supposed to be Karine Hannah that showed up at the studio.
“Just my luck, I thought at the time. The morning of the session, the singer canceled and I was left with a studio rental and no one to record the vocal,” Sahin recalls. Ninety minutes later, after an exasperated call to Dvoskin, fate stepped in. Hannah and Sahin had never met, but it was obvious two hours later that a kinship was on the horizon.
Hannah says, “I immediately loved the song. The lyric was about a love gone wrong, and Ayhan’s production so perfectly captured the melancholy that surrounded it. After the first run through, I looked at Ayhan for approval and the look in his eyes was…”
“Disbelief,” Sahin says, completing her sentence. “It’s a cliché, but I had found my muse.”
Seven years later, the pair have collaborated on more than 60 songs and several one-off projects, but “Karine” marks the first time that their efforts have been assembled into a cohesive collection. Hannah and Sahin have forged a true partnership on the 14 songs gathered here.
Hannah was born in Montreal and began singing at age 4. In her teens she started performing in professional musical reviews and on local TV shows, achieving critical acclaim across Canada. With her powerful, passionate vocal delivery, Grammy-winning producer Jim Steinman heard a demo of Hannah and called her “the best singer I have heard since Celine Dion.” Apparently, the world’s best-selling singer agreed: After seeing Hannah perform on TV, Dion asked her to perform at her wedding celebration in December 1994, accompanying a 21-piece orchestra directed by David Foster at the piano, serenading guests as they were seated for dinner.
She moved to New York in 1998, and has since worked with the likes of both Steinman and Foster, Diane Warren and Rick All
Writers: PJ Griffith, Ayhan Sahin
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BREATHE IT ALL IN
(Griffith, Sahin)
Evaporate Into The Light
Your Red Dress on the Floor
You Want It All, You Want It All
This Show is such a Bore-
CHORUS:
Breathe It All In
'Cause This Could Be The Last Chance That You Get
Tommorrow It Ends
Just Pretend To Forget
Your Body Driving Me Insane
My Mis-Identity
Broken Hearts in Parking Lots
It's All the Same to Me
But I can't turn Away,
CHORUS:
Breathe It All In
'Cause This Could Be The Last Chance That You Get
Tommorrow It Ends
Just Pretend To Forget
Open the sky
With everything you thought that you should be
City of lights
Let the warmth set you free
This gun in my mouth feels so good
Forget the taste of her, another day another life we could
Undo the way things were
Your Body Driving Me Insane
My Mis-Identity
Broken Hearts in Parking Lots
It's All the Same to Me
You're So Wrong
So Wrong, I Realize I've Come Undone
Your Lips, The Taste of Sweeter Destruction
Use Me Up, Turn Around, and Walk A-way-
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