All About Jade
Jade is the vocalist behind the songs Real Emotion and 1000 Words from the game Final Fantasy X-2. These songs were originally sung by Koda Kumi a Japanese singer. She obviously did the songs for the Japanese Version. It seems since Kingdom Hearts SquareEnix is bring alot of previously unknown artists to the forefront of peoples minds. Jade was born on August 12. 1980 in San Diego, California. She became Sweetbox's second front woman in year 2000. Visit Sweetbox website here: www.sweetbox.com.All About Pages
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2/28/04 |
My Discography |
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12/17/03 |
Added Lyrics for Real Emotion & 1000 Words Added Bio from http://www.sweetbox.com/sites/english/ |
Bio
This Bio was from http://www.sweetbox.com/sites/english/
Jade Villalon Biography:
A star is born...
I guess I start with the typical rundown of a persons beginnings. I
was born on August 12th in San Diego CA. I moved to Japan shortly
before my third birthday. I guess you could say my career started
there in the land of cherry blossom trees. I did my first commercial
in Japan at age five for what would later become one of my all time
favorite foods Ramen Noodles! Also I did my fair share of modeling and
print work.
Finding my tap shoes...
I could easily have been defined as a proper stage kid. I can’t
remember a time in my life when I wasn’t dying to be in show business.
I had a typical beginning, lots of talent competitions, dance classes,
and of course musical theatre. I was and continue to be a bad looser.
I hardly ever lost a competition, or didn’t get a part, and when I did
I was always convinced the whole thing must have been fixed. I was a
stage kid that didn’t have a stage mother. My mother was the greatest.
She sacrificed immensely in order to help me pursue a crazy dream. My
poor mom, she had no idea how to curl my hair, how to find a proper
talent agent, or any of the usual stage mom tricks. I was left to
guide her with my naive ambitions, and hundreds of frustrating hours
in the bathroom trying to figure out how to look like Baby June, like
all of the other stage kids.
Finding my spot light...
My first big time audition was at age seven on Broadway in good ole
New York City. I had two that day. The very first was for Gypsy, and
the second was for a show that is still a big dream for me Les
Miserables. I had a little trick every time I went on an audition. I
always tried to include a crazy accessory in my outfit that I thought
would be memorable. How could they forget the kid with big hat and the
funny shoes? That day I had picked out red glitter shoes like Dorothy
in Oz. I worked a lot as a kid. Tons of plays, musicals, commercials,
pilots, guest spots etc. But at about fourteen I was hit with puberty
full swing and that put my luck on full stop. (And my crazy accessory
idea just looked ridiculous on an adolescent girl) The industry
prefers eighteen year olds to play teenagers because of child labor
laws, so as you can imagine the competition was fierce. This fact, on
top of acne and a mean bout of insecurity just about annihilated my
dream.
Finding my pen...
It was about this time that someone I idolized convinced me that I had
a much better chance of becoming a songwriter instead of a singer.
Although it took me years after that conversation to regain my
confidence as a singer, I never would have become a writer without it.
I never would have started that great period of self-reflection and
self-discovery that every writer needs. I don’t think I would have
ever believed I was songwriter if I didn’t believe for a time that I
couldn’t be a singer.
Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t all self reflection and poetry converted
to music during this time I was the all American cheerleading partier
in high school. A lot of people don’t admit this but I will any day. I
had a little too much fun during this time. The whole Good girls go to
heaven but bad girls go everywhere theory was my mantra.
Finding my way...
The day after my 18th birthday I moved to Los Angeles to really try to
make it. I moved into a one bedroom apartment with 5 other people, a
dog and a bird. We slept on the floor and only ate peanut butter and
jelly sandwiches. I was very excited and broke. I wanted to go to
college at the same time, so during the day I worked as a legal
assistant, went to auditions, and at night and on weekends I went to
school.
The first moment of disillusionment in this business doesn’t happen
when you’re hitting the pavement waiting to be discovered. It’s when
you get discovered, sign a record deal and find out that it isn’t easy
street from that point on. It’s really the beginning of the uphill
climb from there. I was nineteen when I started releasing records, and
that’s when I realized that I didn’t need to just be a good singer
that could write a few lines, what I needed to be and wanted to be was
an artist.
Finding my music...
I’m not just called sweet box, the music of SWEETBOX is me. Every song
is a piece of my heart, my personality, and a taste of my soul.
Everything you hear is something personal. That doesn’t always
register with everyone. I know this when I listen to some of the
questions I get asked, and I’ve learned that most people don’t ever
really listen to your music like you think they will. I write all the
music with my producer Geo and together we try to realize my vision of
the music.
The idea behind the music of SWEETBOX isn’t all that unusual. I want
to make music that’s honest, personal, enjoyable, and that’s true to
myself. I believe that there are people who deal with the
circumstances they are given, and then there are people who create
their circumstances. I’ve always tried to create my own circumstances
and strive to do that in my music.
Tina Harris Biography:
Tina Harris was born in Ft. Meade Maryland. With her sisters Jackie
and Angel she travelled to San Francisco and then to Germany, where
she is still living. She and her sisters formed the group B.O.Y.
(Because of you). Her sisters then decided to take on other
professions and Tina went solo.
After attending Frankfurt American Military School, Tina went to
Slippery Rock University outside of Pittsburgh. She followed Olympic
dreams and joined the University Basketball Team. Unfortunately she
hurt her ankle during the first season and returned to her family in
Frankfurt.
She started as a dancer for e.g. Snap, who were at those times
represented by Turbo B, her cousin Durron. Tina recorded own songs
with ZZbros as "ZZMusic" and also with other producers. "Stay in love"
(ZZMusic) was released 1993 on ZYX records.
After project-names like "ZZMusic" and "2Secure", Tina took on the
name "Sweetbox", which brought her international success.
"Everything's gonna be alright" hit the European Top Ten and the US
Top 40. Her album sold about 3,5 million times worldwide. Further hits
were "Don't go away" and "I'll die for you".
Now the days of "Sweetbox" are over, and Tina faces a new career -
finally under her realname as her stagename: Tina Harris. She is
currently working on her first solo album with the help of Quincy
Jones and the ZZBros.
Discography
Info for this discography was taken from these sources:
http://alamar.neostrada.pl/albums.htm
http://alamar.neostrada.pl/singles.htm
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Life Is Cool (2004) 1000 Words Real Emotion (2003)
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Adagio: (2004)
1. Liberty |
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Real Emotion Lyrics - English - Jade
What
can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
I can hear you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
I believe the hazy girl is in my heart
I can see it's face
It's something like this
Every now and then I don't know what to do
Still I know that I
Can never go back
All the things I've seen
In those hazy dreams
Can't compare to what I see tonight
Everything's so different
That it brings me to my feet
And oh, I know, the world of Real Emotion
Has surrounded me
I won't give into it
Now I know, that road
It is the only way my heart can go
I hear your voice calling out to me
You'll never be alone
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
I can hear you
And here, I find, the real without the motion
Has surrounded me
And I can't go on
And you are there
The moment that I close my eyes
You come to me
We are connected
And now I know
I'll never be alone
And oh, I know, the world of Real Emotion
Has surrounded me
I won't give into it
Now I know, that road
It is the only way my heart can go
I hear your voice calling out to me
You'll never be alone
1000 Words Lyrics - English - Jade
I know that your hiding things
Using gentle words to shelter me
Your words were like a dream
But dreams could never fool me
Not that easily
I acted so distant then
Didn't say goodbye before you left
But I was listening
You fight your battles far from me
Far too easily
"Save your tears cause I'll come back"
I could hear that you whispered as you walked through that door
But still I swore
To hide the pain, when I turn back the pages
Shouting might have been the answer
What if I cried my eyes out and begged you not to part
But now I'm not afraid to say what's in my heart
Cause a thousand words
Call out through the ages
They'll fly to you
Even though I can't see
I know they are reaching you, suspended on silver wings
Oh a thousand words
A thousand embraces
Will cradle you
Making all of your weary days seem far away
They'll hold you forever
Oh a thousand words (a thousand words)
Have never been spoken (ohh yeah)
They'll fly to you
They'll carry you home, (carry you home) and into my arms
Suspended on silver wings (on silver wings!)
And a thousand words (ohh)
Call out through the ages (call through the ages!)
They'll cradel you (ohh yeah)
Make all of the lonely years to lonely days (lonely days)
They'll hold you forever.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh a thousand words