Discovering Yourself [Import, Single]

Emma Shapplin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Single
• Label: Musicrama/Koch
• ASIN: B00003GNY8
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #678,239 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Discovering Yourself

2. Cuerpo Sin Alma [Remix]

3. Fera Ventura

4. Dolce Veneno

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than pleased with it!, January 10, 2000

By 

David (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Discovering Yourself (Audio CD)

Emma's soprano voice combined with pop rythms, bass, and electronic arranges is astonishing.

I really loved this single CD. After I bought her album "Carmine Meo" I thought that were the best songs, specially "Spente le Stelle" but "Fera Ventura" and "Discovering Yourself" are really GREAT. "Dolce Veneno" is very sweet specially with her talented voice. I am telling you don't have to be an opera lover. This single CD is definitley pop and the best I ever heard. If you doubt it listen to "Cuerpo sin Alma Remix." Excellent purchase, you won't regret it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Item!, November 3, 2002

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Anthony Morelli "Woofbear" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Discovering Yourself (Audio CD)

Simply Great!

Emma Shapplin's voice is a pleasure to my ears.
I love the ODJI remix of Cuerpo Sin Alma. Every time I play this song, it grows on me more and more. I can imagine Emma floating upside down when hearing her singing it. It's like a free-falling song.

I never heard of Opera Trance before purchasing "Discovering Yourself". Cool cover art, cool CD! When I heard Emma singing "Discovering Yourself", that was when I realized she could speak English. All tracks are excellent, by the Paris born artist. Obviously, just because of Emma's CD singles alone, she can make a big name for herself!

The tracklist on the single is:

Discovering yourself
Cuerpo sin alma ( remix by ODJI )
Fera ventura
Dolce veneno

I almost feel like it's a mini album, but it's NOT.

Hope this little review has helped you.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cold yet Ethereal, August 9, 2001

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Clarissa "MoonGoddess" (Ontario, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Discovering Yourself (Audio CD)

Like many my introduction to Emma Shapplin was through Opera Trance's Spente Le Stelle remixes. From there I knew I had to have more. So when I came across the single "Discovering Yourself" I immediately bought it to get a better understanding of what her normal singing was like, and boy was I ever pleased with the results! Obviously she doesn't have the power of Cecilia Bartoli or the warm vocals of Sarah Brightman, but who cares! Who wants a duplication of another anyways? I think she's got immense talent that can surpass the standards of opera and what's expected of it any day.

The dark ambient-like "Fera Ventura" has got to be one of the most compelling and arresting songs I've ever set ears on, and "Discovering Yourself" is an edgy rock/pop song that (thanks to audio samples) helped lure me to her. And though I prefer Chiara Zeffirelli singing it better, "Cuerpo Sin Alma remix is a good blend of opera and light trance; and "Dolce Veneno," being the more traditional song, is simply breathtaking and moving. This is a perfect introduction to Emma Shapplin's music. Can't wait to get Carmine Meo now!

Later.