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Dan Hill Dan Hill is a Canadian who has captured world recognition since his emergence into the music industry in 1975 with his first and self titled album. His first hit was the classic Sometimes When We Touch, from his third album Longer Fuse, which hit number one on the charts in Canada and in the United States. With the album, critics started to notice his new approach and described his music as the first of its kind, releasing his emotional energy thru the art of music. Hence, the launch of a new era of musical styling, passion. From his first number one single in 1978, he has gone on to release other numerous other hits such as Can't we try, a duet with Vonda Shepard, and an accumlating collection of record albums now at thirteen. |
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BIOGRAPHY FROM DAN HILL's OFFICIAL WEB SITE at www.danhill.com
Dan Hill was born in Toronto in 1954 to American Parents who, as an interracial couple, moved to Canada to escape the twin scourges of Racism and McCarthyism. They also believed that Canada provided a better environment to raise their family. "McCarthy's Day", from his album Longer Fuse chronicled his racial background. "It's probably the most personal song I've ever written. I wasn't sure about putting it on the album. But then I felt that I almost had to include it, just to express who I am." Dan began writing songs at age 14 and was playing professionally in small gatherings and coffee houses by the time he reached 17. Two years later he signed to GRT Records in Canada and so began his quick rise to fame. He grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. He credits Sinatra as a primary influence in terms of delivery and phrasing. It was the 1977 Longer Fuse (1977) and the single Sometimes When We Touch that sealed Dan's international success. It not only gave him his third Canadian Gold album, it also won over the U.S. audience. 
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Sometimes When we Touch also gave Dan his first co-writing
experience, in this case with the highly talented and respected
Barry Mann, whose hits range from Who put the Bomp and
Here You Come Again to the well-loved standard
You've Lost That Loving Feeling.
"We were brought together in almost blind date fashion." Dan was named Top New Male Vocalist in both Cashbox and Record World: won Juno awards for Composer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year. and was nominated for a Grammy in 1977. Dan's songwriting can be heard on Healing Power of Love covered by Jennifer Rush: Sometimes When We Touch by Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow and Newton: Seduces Me from the Celine Dion album Falling Into You, written by Dan and John Sheard, and co-produced with John Jones and Rick Hahn. Celine and the album's producers won the Album of The Year Grammy Award in 1996. |
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BIOGRAPHY OF DAN HILL from www.tunes.com prepared by Steve Huey Born in Toronto, Hill is an unabashedly sentimental singer/songwriter. As a teenager, Hill was a major fan of vocalists like Frank Sinatra. He became popular in Canada, and his debut album was released in 1975. In 1977, he co - wrote the highly emotional "Sometimes When We Touch" with Barry Mann, and it became a Top Ten smash in the U.S. After a few lesser hits, he seemingly disappeared, but mounted a comeback in 1987, scoring another Top Ten hit with "Can't We Try," a duet with Vonda Sheppard. He has charted a few times on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart since then. |
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Biography OF DAN HILL from www.cdnow.com courtesy of Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Copyright Muze UK Ltd. 1989 - 1998 Daniel Hill Junior., 3 June 1954, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hill achieved success when a soft ballad co-written by Hill and Barry Mann, reached number 3 in 1977, and 'Can't We Try', a duet with Vonda Sheppard, climbed to number 6 in 1987 on Billboard's top singles. Hill and his parents moved to Canada during the 50s and he discovered music in his teens, gravitating toward vocalists such as Frank Sinatra. Hill became a professional musician at the age of 18, playing at clubs and trying to sell his demo tapes to uninterested record labels. He gradually became popular in Canada, and signed to 20th Century Fox Records in the USA. His self-titled debut album just missed the US Top 100 in 1975 and his first chart single in the US was 'Growin' Up', in 1976. But the follow-up introduced Hill to a larger audience. It was the president of the publishing company for which he worked who teamed him with Mann, resulting in the success of 'Sometimes When We Touch'. Hill's album, Longer Fuse, which included that single, was also his biggest seller, reaching number 21 in 1977 on Billboard's top albums. The Hill-Mann collaboration was followed by a few lesser chart singles for Hill and it seemed he had disappeared from the music scene in the early 80s after recording two albums for Epic Records. In 1987, however, he collaborated with female singer Vonda Sheppard and returned to the Top 10. Hill placed one further single in the chart in early 1988 and had Top 10 hits in Billboard 's 'Adult' chart that year with 'Carmelia' and in 1990 with 'Unborn Heart'. |
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DAN HILL HOLD ON LONGER FUSE FROZEN IN THE NIGHT IF DREAMS HAD WINGS PARTIAL SURRENDER LOVE IN THE SHADOWS DAN HILL - 2nd self titled album THE DAN HILL COLLECTION REAL LOVE DANCE OF LOVE LET ME SHOW YOU...GREATEST HITS AND MORE I'M DOING FINE |
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1975 - - 1976 - 1977 1978 - - - - - 1979 1980 - 1981 |
You Make Me Want To Be (GRT) You Say You're Free (GRT) Growing Up (GRT) You Say You're Free (GRT) Hold On (GRT) Sometimes When We Touch (GRT) Let The Song Last Forever (GRT) All I See Is Your Face (GRT) Dark Side Of Atlanta (GRT) (Why Did You Have To Go And) Pick On Me/ No One Taught Me How To Lie (GRT) Hold On To The Night (Epic) When You Smile (Epic) I Still Reach For You (Epic) Don't Give Up On Love (/Epic) |
1982 1987 - 1988 - - 1989 1991 1992 - 1993 - 1996 - |
I'm Just A Man (Epic) Can't We Try (CBS/Columbia) [with Vonda Sheppard] Never Thought (That I Could Love) (CBS/Columbia) Carmelia (CBS/Columbia) Unborn Heart (CBS/Columbia) I Fall All Over Again (Quality) Is It Really Love (Quality) Hold Me Now (Quality) Flirting With A Headache (Quality) Healing Power Of Love (Quality) Wrapped Around Your Finger (Spontaneous/MCA) |
