Music Speaks Louder Than Words | |
Type: | Compilation album |
Artist: | Various Artists |
Cover: | Music Speaks Louder Than Words (Soviet American album).jpg |
Released: | July 1990 |
Recorded: | 1990 |
Genre: | Rock |
Label: | Epic |
Producer: | Various |
Music Speaks Louder Than Words is an album released by Epic Records in 1990.
Artists such as Cyndi Lauper, Atlantic Starr, Roberta Flack, Patti LaBelle, Earth, Wind & Fire, Anne Murray and the Cover Girls featured on the album.
The LP's songs were co-written by American and Soviet musicians and songwriters. A sum of composer royalties went towards the AFS Intercultural Exchanges programme. AFS Intercultural Exchanges is an international body based in 70 countries which places exchange students with host families.[1] [2]
Stephen Holden of the New York Times noted that "the album's songs are all slickly produced".