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  February 2, 2005 




Mario Frangoulis / Follow Your Heart
review by Ed Vincent

Mario Frangoulis has an angelic voice and his selection of songs
will give your ears a feast. The album covers a broad range of
styles and languages.  He is already a big hit in his homeland of
Greece.  He will be taking to the road and you might get a chance
to hear this young tenor with a bright future ahead of him.

He has a smooth sound from his Mediterranean genes and
I am sure the other demi-gods are pleased with his vocal
attributes.  Hearing his songs more than a couple of times
may very well make them all his signature songs, and his
signature might very well become quite large......

"Beautiful music, sung with art and class...a bright future."  OPJ



MARIO FRANGOULIS WRAPS SMOOTH, SOULFUL
POP BALLADS IN HIS SENSUOUS TENOR VOICE
ON SONY CLASSICAL’S FOLLOW YOUR HEART
CD RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 1 ,2005


Frangoulis Joins Piano Sensation Jim Brickman
For U.S. Tour In February & March 2005

(New York, NY, January 11, 2005) — Following up his exuberant Sony Classical debut album Sometimes / Dream, Greek tenor Mario Frangoulis looks inward for his latest recording Follow Your Heart, blending his sensuous tenor voice with an all-new, soulful collection of smooth pop ballads and classically flavored songs. Latin pop sensation Alejandro Fernandez makes a guest appearance on the album, joining Frangoulis in the song ‘Hay Mas.” Follow Your
Head will be released on Tuesday, February 1, 2005.


Sometimes I  Dream continues on the Billboard Classical Crossover chart, where it has remained for almost 90 consecutive weeks. Though that album introduced Frangoulis to an international audience, he is already a multi-platinum recording artist in his native Greece. Audiences across America will get to know the tenor in February and March, when he joins romantic piano sensation Jim Brickman for a series of concerts featuring excerpts from both of Frangoulis’s albums, selections from Brickman’s recordings and a couple of surprises.

Frangoulis joins Brickman on tour at the DeVos Performance
Hall in Grand Rapids MI on February 3, followed by performances in Saginaw Ml (The Theater at the Dow Events Center on
February 4); Des Moines (Des Moines Civic Center Theatre on February 10); Milwaukee (Pabst Theater on February 12); Omaha (Orpheum Theater on February 14); Billings MT (Alberta Bair Theater on February 25); Atlanta (The Fox on March 4);
Roanoke VA (Roanoke Civic Center on March 5); and New
York (Carnegie Hall on May 6).


Frangoulis himself planned the repertoire and defined the concept
for Follow Your Heart, which explores a Latin flavor and relaxed warmth that represents a bit of a departure from the intensity of Sometimes / Dream. The tenor calls Follow Your Heart “a very personal album ... that I hope reflects my most profound feelings about life ... putting across my views about friendship and love, family and patriotism.”

Most of the tracks on Follow Your Head were produced (and several written) by Emanuele Ruffinengo — internationally known for his Grammy-winning work with singer Alejandro Sanz — and the album reunites Frangoulis with executive producer Steve Wood, who produced three tracks on the new album and was at the helm
of Sometimes / Dream. As with Sometimes I Dream, Frangoulis sings in multiple languages on Follow Your Heart, with most of the songs in English. The album’s 12 tracks also include songs in
Greek, Italian and Spanish.


Two tracks on Follow Your Heart have a classical pedigree — “Another World” is adapted from the popular chorus “Vat
Pensiero” from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Nabucco, and “Adagio”
is taken from the slow movement of the famous Oboe Concerto
of Italian Baroque composer Alessandro
 
Marcello. Another track — “Come What May” — comes from
 the soundtrack of the hit 2001 film Moulin Rouge. “Here’s to the Heroes” — a new song, with lyrics by Don Black and also set to
the main theme from John Barry’s Oscar-winning score for Dances With Wolves — was introduced by Frangoulis at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens as a tribute to the athletes competition. The song titles describe the album’s soulful, contemplative mood
— from the title track to “Bridge of Dreams,” “Another World”
and “Benedictus.” They also include a duet — “Cumme” — with the young Spanish singer Melody.


Follow Your Heart, the latest recording from tenor Mario
Frangoulis, will be featured at www.mariofrangoulis.com on
 Sony Classical’s Web site at www.sonyclassical.com.