Eros (Eros Ramazzotti album)

Production

• Eros Ramazzotti
• Piero Cassano

Eros is the first best-of album by Eros Ramazzotti. It was released on 28 October 1997, the 34th birthday of the singer. The album sold in the first two days after its release in Europe alone, around 1.2 million times. In Germany, the album went triple platinum in 1999 for 1.5 million units sold in the United States 2000 multi-platinum for more than two million albums sold.

Background

The album contains five original recordings and nine remixes of various tracks from the up to then fifteen- year career with Ancora un minuto di Ramazzotti's sole and Quanto amore was two newly recorded pieces. The first hit single of the artist Terra promessa of 1984 was remixed in the style of a hip-hop song. The first single Quanto amore had been previously released on 25 September 1997. Cose della vita The title was re-recorded as a vocal duet with Tina Turner and expanded to include rock music elements. To the song in October 1997 in the French mountain village Peille (Canton L' Escarène ) was taken near Turner's home on the Côte d' Azur a music video. About the collaboration with Andrea Bocelli Ramazzotti had already spoken to him and both artists were in agreement that it only just under ten minute ballad Musica è comes into question because these are best fit to the tenor of Bocelli.

Title list

Reviews

Writes Jason Birch Meier of Allmusic that it was indeed unusual for a Best of, re-record most of the tracks, but that would just make the album interesting are the new entries. This sword Eros as a brilliant new album, the synth-pop of the 1980s had given way to adult contemporary pop music. Only the two new, placed at the end pieces are less remarkable.