Much Love Explained
| Much Love |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Shola Ama |
| Cover: | Shola_Ama_Much_Love_album_cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1 September 1997 |
| Recorded: | 1995–1997 |
| Genre: | R&B |
| Length: | 51:56 |
| Label: |
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| Next Title: | In Return |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Much Love is the debut album by British singer Shola Ama. It was released by Freakstreet and WEA on 1 September 1997 in the United Kingdom. Ama worked with songwriting collective D'Influence on the majority of the album, with Shaun LaBelle, Livio Harris, and Paul Waller providing additional production. Much Love was preceded by two top ten hit singles: a cover of "You Might Need Somebody", originally made famous by Randy Crawford, and follow-up "You're the One I Love". "Who's Loving My Baby" and "Much Love" were also released as singles, both reaching the UK top twenty.
The album reached the top ten of the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number six, and entered the top twenty in Germany and the top thirty in France, and the Netherlands. In the United Kingdom, it was eventually certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), indicating sales in excess of 100,000 copies. Following the success of the album, Ama won a Brit Award for Best British Female and two MOBO Awards for Best Newcomer and Best R&B Act.[1]
Track listing
Sample credits
- "I Love Your Ways" contains a replayed element of "Give Me the Sunshine" by Leo's Sunshipp.
Personnel
Adapted from AllMusic.[2]
- San Acharya – A&R
- Shola Ama – primary artist, vocals, background vocals
- Ed Baden-Powell – bass, drum programming, guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, string arrangements
- Toby Baker – bass, keyboards
- David Barry – guitar
- Carlton Batts – mastering
- Joe Belmaati – keyboards, programming
- Melvin Britt – background vocals
- Sue Ann Carwell – vocal arrangement, background vocals
- Rob Chiarelli – mixing
- Jorge Corante – drum programming, keyboards, piano
- Cutfather – producer, remixing
- D'Influence – arranger, mixing, producer
- Michael "Mickey D" Davis – A&R, executive producer
- Terry Dexter – background vocals
- Marcella Ffrench – background vocals
- Mark Franks – engineer
- Guido Zen – engineer
- Livio Harris – arranger, producer, background vocals
- Stephen Hussey – strings
- Anthony Jeffries – engineer
- Kwame Kwaten – bass, executive producer, keyboards, moog bass
- Shaun LaBelle – arranger, bass, drum programming, producer, synthesizer
- Ed Lover – engineer
- Steve Marston – horn
- Patrick McMahon – engineer
- Yan Memmi – engineer, mixing
- Rod Michaels – engineer
- Randee Saint Nicholas – photography
- Dik Shopteau – engineer
- Paul Waller – arranger, drum programming, keyboards, mixing, producer
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 1997: Mary J. Blige, Eternal, Simply Red and The Prodigy – MOBO Awards. mobo.com. 11 January 2017.
- Web site: Much Love – Shola Ama – Credits – AllMusic. allmusic.com. 11 January 2017.
