Thinking of You (Kitarō album)

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Thinking Of You
Kitaro Thinking Of You.jpg
Studio album by Kitarō
Released November 06, 1999
Genre New-age
Length54:24
Label Domo Records, Inc
Producer Kitarō
Kitarō chronology
Best Of Kitaro Vol. 2
(1999)
Thinking Of You
(1999)
The Soong Sisters
(2000)

Thinking Of You is an album by Kitarō which won at the 43rd Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album. [1]

Kitarō musician, composer, record producer, arranger

Kitarō (喜多郎), born Masanori Takahashi, is a Japanese recording artist, composer, record producer and arranger noted for his electronic-instrumental music, and is often associated and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of New-age music. He is the winner of a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album and a Golden Globe Award for the Heaven & Earth (1993) original score.

The Grammy Award for Best New Age Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the new-age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Kitarō.

No.TitleLength
1."Estrella"4:20
2."Mercury"5:57
3."Cosmic Wave"3:40
4."Harmony of the Forest"6:22
5."Fiesta"7:46
6."Thinking of You"6:53
7."Spirit of Water"4:44
8."Stream"5:33
9."Space II"6:58
10."Del Mar"2:11

Charts

YearChartPosition
1999Top New Age Albums (Billboard Magazine) [2] 23

Awards

YearAwardResult
2000Best New Age Albums (The Recording Academy) [3] [4] Won

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