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As a young girl Lana Wolf
already dreamt of making an album with songs that would deeply
move her.
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Her leaving for the US (Tuscon, Arizona) to sing, when she was
seventeen, shaped her preference for West Coast Rock and Pop
music, so the album should therefore be as such. However, for
her as a female singer, with a powerful voice, it was not easy
to find songs suitable, with the lyrics that touched her.
Till she in 1999 came into contact with Camus Celli and Paul
Conte in New York. They hit it off quite well and had a brief
opportunity to discuss their music. Quickly Lana headed back for
The Netherlands to bring accross her enthusiasm to her
management. Unfortunately, due to that very same management, it
all ended there and then.
Back in The Netherlands Lana performed since then with well
known artists and was part of several theatre productions and
bands. Not without success, but the itch remained…Lana had to
release her own album. She put money aside and kept looking for
the right sound. Till 2008, when she heard ‘Follow Through’ by
Gavin DeGraw, playing on the radio. She recognized the sound and
knew: “This is it.”.
It showed she recognized
Camus Celli’s
work (a friend of Gavin’s that had worked on the album ‘Chariot’).
Passionately she began looking for Camus’ number…nowhere to be
found…After a lot of web surfing, E-mailing and many phone calls,
she finally reached him. His successes with Tina Turner, Cece
Peniston, Chaka Khan, John Farnham etc., made him not an easy
person to get a hold of, but persistent as Lana was, she did.
Lana explained to him, that she would love to make a Pop/Rock
album with beautiful lyrics, but could not write herself, being
a native Dutch. Camus still remembering her as very passionate
about music, next to the respect for her drive (she was doing
all for the album by herself), caved: "Meet me next week in my
studio.".
The week after, she was singing in his studio -with a view to
the Brooklyn Bridge and the skyline of Manhattan-, on the very
spot where great artists went before her! Her passion for music
became part of her again and under passionate guidance of Camus,
the songs were recorded. Dave Kutch, mastering music of the
likes of Alicia Keys en Natasha Bedingfield, mastered the album
of Lana in New York.
This passion you feel in all songs written by Camus and Paul
Conte (and others), throughout the album. De lyrics are about
the ups and downs in love and life, but most of all the message
is, not to go with just good enough, and that things will turn
out for the better in the end.
The single cd that preceeds the
album, subsequently is See The Light. Here the video of See The Light:
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See The Light had 34 as
highest position October 2010 in the Dutch Single top
100:

These songs and a few of the most beautiful ballads, blend this Pop/Rock
album into a musical emotional rollercoaster, of which its message
speaks out to everyone.
But not just take only our word for it: the album 'Something About
Lana’
can be downloaded now here:
iTunes
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Special thanks:
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Camus Celli, Paul Conte, Josh Grant, Dave Kutch, Dennis Erhardt, Sandra
Dorland, Willie Kers, Natasja Diks, Jethran Roeten. Rob Stenders thanks
for nothing. |
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Fred Siebelink
I heart you. |
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