Credo is the eighth studio album by American singer Jennifer Rush

Jennifer Rush

Jennifer Rush is an American/German-based pop/rock singer, best known for the million-selling single "The Power of Love", which she co-wrote and which went on to be covered by Laura Branigan and Celine Dion.-Career:...

.

Released in early 1997. By this time, Rush was no longer the chart star she had been a decade earlier and was content to discover new styles. On this album she worked with Gospel

Gospel music

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 and African Choirs

Mbube (genre)

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, who backed her on three of the tracks - including the title track and lead single with a promo video filmed in the Namib desert. The album did enter the charts in her most loyal market, Germany, where it reached No.26 and the single became a minor hit. This was followed by "Sweet Thing", one of the few uptempo songs on the album, while "Piano in the Dark

Piano in the Dark

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" (a cover of the Brenda Russell

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 song) was released as a Promo

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-only single after this. Further notable songs featured on the album are the cover versions of Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick

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's "The Flame

The Flame (Cheap Trick song)

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" (1988) and "The Places You Find Love", originally recorded by Barbra Streisand

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 in 1988 and then by Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

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 for his Back On the Block

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album in 1989. Like her previous two albums, Credo went unreleased in the UK and US.

Track listing

1. "Credo"
2. "The Flame"
3. "Now That I Found You"
4. "Sweet Thing"
5. "Healing Power"
6. "Piano in the Dark"
7. "Deeper Within"
8. "More than Words"
9. "A Touch of Paradise"
10. "The Places You Find Love"
11. "All in Love is Fair"