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Open My Heart

"Open My Heart" is a song by Yolanda Adams released in 2000. The song gained Adams great popularity in the secular audiences. Being the most groundbreaking single of her career, she won several awards for this song. "Open My Heart" helped her 1999 album Mountain High...Valley Low gain multi-platinum status and reach charts heights not often attained by artists of the gospel genre.

"Open My Heart"

2000

1998

5:40

Elektra

  • James Harris
  • James Q. Wright
  • Terry Lewis
  • Yolanda Adams

The song peaked at #10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Remixes by Steve "Silk" Hurley and Junior Vasquez helped the song peak at #29 on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart.


The song was sampled by Nick Cannon on his single "Can I Live."[1]

Produced by & James "Big Jim" Wright

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

Percussion & Live Drums:

Stokley Williams

Guitar: Mike Scott

Strings arranged by Lee Blaske & Big Jim Wright

Violins: Brenda Mickens, Carolyn Daws, Elizabeth Sobieski, Michael Sobieski, Elsa Nilsson, Leslie Shank & Thomas Kornacker

Violas: Alice Preves & Tamas Strasser

All Other Instruments played by Big Jim Wright

Background Vocals: Marva King & Yolanda Adams