Daylight in Your Eyes

Daylight in Your Eyes is the first song of No Angels, which was released as a single. The song was written by Tony Bruno and Tommy Byrne. Originally recorded by the Colombian singer Victoria Faiella, the title in February 2001, was published by the five -piece band after their formation as part of the talent show Popstars and with over one million copies sold to date the most successful single from the group.

After the release of the song to an international hit and was ranked first in the German, Austrian, Swiss, Estonian and Brazilian charts. After only 24 hours Daylight was sold over 500,000 copies in Germany, and is thus by Elton John's Candle in the Wind '97 and Bro'Sis ' I Believe as one of the fastest selling song in German music history. The song received in Germany and Austria each have a platinum record, and in Switzerland a gold record. In the German Charts years 2001 Daylight in Your Eyes also occupied the first place. In addition, the No Angels were nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the German-speaking countries and received the ECHO for Best National Single - Rock / Pop.

Commercially speaking Europe so a complete success, the release of the game in the UK, the USA and France followed in the same year. Here, the song came on, however, only little response and reached only low chart positions. Thereupon apart from other releases of the band in these countries.

Background

Originally, the song was intended as a debut release of the Colombian singer Victoria Faiella, whose album was produced by Rosenstolz Member Peter Plate. Daylight was not accepted by the radio stations, which was offered the title. The record company then pulled back the planned release of the song, he only appeared on some compilations.

When Plate was made aware that the production company Tresor TV was looking for a winning title for the winning band of their talent show Popstars, the musicians offered the flopped song, then instead of being actually thought as debut single songs Go Ahead and Take It as the first single of No Angels was published.

Music Video

The music video for Daylight in Your Eyes was filmed in December 2000 in the X -Sight Studios in Hessian Grand -Gerau. Directed by Robert Bröllochs. To be in the video, the band members are dancing to look for an imagined by Detlef Soost choreography, highlighted their assigned roles by the production company. Each of the five women were assigned to one of four elements in order to assign Wahls as the fifth member of an element can, they invented the element Spirit. The video was first seen in an episode of Popstars in January 2001.

In addition, another version of the video that was produced specifically for the American market exists because it was feared censorship due to tight outfits in the original video. The shooting of this took place in the summer of 2001 held in Toronto, Canada, directed by Stephen Scott.

Executive Producer

  • Vocals: Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, Vanessa Petruo, Jessica Wahls
  • Original Recording: T. Bruno, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer
  • Recording: Mike " Spike " Streefkerk
  • Mixed by: Jeo
  • Keyboards: T. Brötzmann, Stefan Hansen and Nico Fintzen
  • Guitar: Peter Weihe
  • Mastering: Quincy J. Kramer

Chart positions

Chart positions

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