Asculta azi Roxette

Roxette – Listen to your heart (with orchestra Il Novecento, 2009)

Roxette, with orchestra Il Novecento, conducted by Robert Groslot, Live at Night of the Proms in 2009, Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium.

"Listen to Your Heart" is the title of a Billboard Hot 100 number one hit song recorded by Roxette.
Something about Marie Fredrikson:

On 11 September 2002, Fredriksson fainted in her bathroom, hitting her head and receiving a concussion. Scans indicated that Fredriksson had a brain tumor in the back of her head (cancer).

The diagnosis led to the cancellation of Roxette's planned performance at the 2002 Night of the Proms concert series.

After waiting several weeks for the concussion to subside, she underwent a successful surgery to remove the tumour. It was malignant and she endured months of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

She had difficulties reading, writing and counting for a period of time, and is now blind in her right eye.

In January 2003, Roxette were awarded the 'Royal Medal with Blue Ribbon' by King of Sweden Carl Gustaf XVI. The ceremony was the first event at which Fredriksson appeared after her operation. This was one of very few public appearances she made during her illness.

She withdrew from the public eye for almost two years.
On 21 October 2005, Fredriksson stated, "It’s been three very difficult years", but in an interview with Jens Peterson published in Aftonbladet, Fredriksson says she has won her fight against cancer. "I’m healthy", she says. "I’m not receiving treatment anymore."

About 6 months after Fredriksson's cancer diagnosis, she and her husband Mikael Bolyos began to work on her first ever English solo album.
She called the album „The Change” which entered the Swedish chart at No. 1 The first single, "2nd Chance", entered the Swedish singles chart at No. 1. Soon after its release, The Change achieved gold status (20,000 copies sold) in Sweden, according to IFPI.

In conjunction with the release of The Change, Fredriksson started a new publishing company together with Bolyos. MaryJane Music was mainly created "as a home for Marie's solo albums," states the label's website, "but as the musical collaboration between Marie and Mikael continues and expands, don't be surprised if you find other exciting projects with some of their musical friends released on this label."

The power ballad was released in September 1988 in Sweden as a single from their album Look Sharp!, and was written by Per Gessle and Mats M.P. Persson.

It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on November 4, 1989, their second chart-topper of the year. They rose to #1 the same week the dominant New Kids on the Block rose to number two with their song "Cover Girl", thus preventing the group from taking the top spot.

The song was released in the UK in October 1989 and reached a lowly number 62, but was re-issued in August 1990 as a double A-side with "Dangerous" after the success of their previous single "It Must Have Been Love", and reached number six.

At the Wembley Arena gig on their 1991–92 “Join the Joyride/The Summer Joyride World Tour”, before playing this song as part of the encore, Per said "We can't leave you tonight without playing you this absolutely true story."

Some cover versions

In 1990, Greek singer Sofia Vossou released a cover called Akou tin kardia(Listen to the heart)

Hong Kong pop singer Shirley Kwan released a Cantonese version of the song called "這是我心裡對白" (English: This is the Monologue of My Heart) in her 1990 album True Love.

"Habla El Corazón", the Spanish version of the song, was released in March 2007 by Mexican artist Yuridia, who covered the track for her second album Habla El Corazón. The song quickly gained both airplay and digital sales, debuting at #89 in the Mexican Top 100, that week's highest debut. To this date, the song has peaked at #58. On the week of April 28, 2007, "Habla El Corazon" debuted in the U.S. Hot Latin Songs at #50. It is the first time her second single appears on a U.S. chart, as "Maldita Primavera", the second single from her debut album, only charted in the Mexican Top 100.

In 2008, Finnish Gothic metal band Reflexion recorded a cover version of the song as a bonus track on their EP Twilight Child, and later released the cover as a bonus track on their 2008 album Dead to the Past, Blind for Tomorrow.

In 2009, Scottish power metal band Ascension recorded a cover and released it as a single.

In 2009, Filipino singer Sarah Geronimo recorded a cover version of the song for her album Music and Me.

In 2010, Lebanese-German singer Fady Maalouf included a cover of the song on his album Into the Light

In 2011, Tommy Johansson of the band ReinXeed covered the song for the compilation Swedish Hitz Goes Metal.

Appearances in other media

"Listen to Your Heart" was used by the dissident political party Civic Forum in its television advertisements for the 1989 Czechoslovakian elections, one of the first elections in Eastern Europe that came with collapse of communism.
"Listen to Your Heart" was likewise used in election broadcasts by the then right-wing liberal party Fidesz led by Viktor Orbán for the 1990 elections.

The song appeared in a 1989 episode of the Brazilian soap opera O Sexo dos Anjos by Globo TV.

The song was used in the Cold Case first season episode "Maternal Instincts" which aired in 2004.

In 2005, the song was featured on the TV show Reunion.

The song can be sung in the 2008 Xbox 360 video game, Lips.

The lyrics are:

I know there's something in the wake of your smile

I get a notion from the look in your eyes yeah

You've built a love but that love falls apart

Your little piece of heaven turns to dark

Listen to your heart

When he's calling for you

Listen to your heart

There's nothing else you can do

I don't know where you're going

And I don't know why

But listen to your heart

Before you tell him goodbye

Sometimes you wonder if this fight is worthwhile

The precious moments are all lost in the tide yeah

They're swept away and nothing is what it seems

The feeling of belonging to your dreams

Listen to your heart

When he's calling for you

Listen to your heart

There's nothing else you can do

I don't know where you're going

And I don't know why

But listen to your heart

Before... You tell him goodbye

And there are voices that want to be heard

So much to mention but you can't find the words

The scent of magic, the beauty that's been

When love was wilder than the wind

Listen to your heart (take a listen to it)

When he's calling for you

Listen to your heart (take a listen to it)

There's nothing else you can do

I don't know where you're going

And I don't know why

But listen to your heart

Before oh... Before you tell him goodbye

Listen to your heart (take a listen to it)

When he's calling for you

Listen to your heart (take a listen to it)

There's nothing else you can do

I don't know where you're going

And I don't know why

But listen to your heart

Before you tell him goodbye