Dare to Dream | ||||
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Released | March 17, 1992 | |||
Genre | Instrumental | |||
Length | 59:05 | |||
Label | Private Music | |||
Producer | Yanni | |||
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Dare to Dream (stylised as DARE to dream) is the eighth studio album by Greek keyboardist and composer Yanni, released in March 1992 on Private Music. The album peaked at number 2 on Billboard's Top New Age Albums chart and at number 32 on the Billboard 200 chart in the same year. [1] It went gold within two months of its release and was nominated for a Grammy.
Yanni says that the title of the album, Dare to Dream, "comes from the realization that, people not only don't go after their dreams but they're actually afraid to dream at all. If you're afraid to dream, nothing will ever come to you". [2] [3]
The album was followed by the sell-out, 65-city Dare to Dream concert tour which challenged audiences "not to be afraid to dream". [4] On the concert tour, Yanni also advised the fans not to let their worries rob them of the joy of life, and encourages them to "dare to dream" - which is, of course, the theme of the album. [5]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
In a review by Johnny Loftus, "Dare to Dream is Yanni's first new material in three years and finds the new age composer fitting his unflinchingly romantic arrangements into tighter song structures. The surging synth backgrounds, insistent piano lines and general grandiosity that mark Yanni's sound are still intact. But tracks like "A Love for Life" or "Nice to Meet You" harness that famously epic energy in smaller stables. This tactic works especially well on the latter track, which is led by the wail of an electric fiddle. Elsewhere, Yanni plucks the heartstrings with "In the Mirror" and "So Long My Friend" – two weepy ballads that cascade like sheets of rain on a lonely city street. The seven-minute "You Only Live Once" becomes the only really epic piece on Dare to Dream, and it's pleasant enough. However, it illustrates the main drawback to Dream, which is Yanni's reliance on the shifting sands of synthesizers to do his bidding." [7]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Once Upon a Time" | 3:51 |
2. | "A Love for Life" | 5:07 |
3. | "Nice to Meet You" | 5:35 |
4. | "So Long My Friend" | 3:47 |
5. | "You Only Live Once" | 7:19 |
6. | "To the One Who Knows" | 5:37 |
7. | "Face in the Photograph" | 3:47 |
8. | "Felitsa" | 4:45 |
9. | "Desire" | 5:00 |
10. | "Aria" | 3:58 |
11. | "A Night to Remember" | 5:47 |
12. | "In the Mirror (first released on Romantic Moments, one month earlier)" | 4:07 |
(Personnel as described in CD liner notes.) [9]
April – June 1992
65 cities
Selections from Reflections of Passion , In Celebration of Life and Dare to Dream
This 2 hour and 15 minute concert is performed completely live and showcases the broad range of Yanni's music through a unique marriage of acoustic and electronic sound. Yanni and two additional keyboardists (Bradley Joseph and Julie Homi), are backed by a rhythm section headed by Charlie Adams on drums, with Michael Bruno on percussion and Osama Afifi on bass, and a string section featuring Charlie Bisharat and Karen Briggs on violin, and Sachi McHenry on cello. [10] A highlight of the concert was his piece dedicated to his mother. His band left the stage; the spotlight focused on Yanni at the piano, surrounded just by the violinists and cellist. Yanni introduced the piece sharing a story from his childhood. When he was a boy, his mother would always sing a song to him before he would go to sleep. The cello in this touching composition resembled a human voice singing. Also, he dedicated his song, "To the One Who Knows" from his "Dare to Dream" CD to his father, calling him his "greatest teacher in life". From his father, he learned about unconditional love. [5]
The music "Once Upon a Time" was adopted by TVB as the background music of world weather from July 28, 1991, to December 31, 2009.
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [13] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [14] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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