Credo (Jennifer Rush album)

Credo
Studio album by Jennifer Rush
Released	March 24, 1997
Length	50:11
Label	EMI
Producer	Barry Eastmond Nick Patrick Lindsay Scott (exec.)
Jennifer Rush chronology
Out of My Hands (1995) Credo (1997) Classics (1998)
Singles from Credo
"Credo" Released: 1997 "Sweet Thing" Released: 1997

Credo is the eighth studio album by American singer Jennifer Rush. It was released by EMI Records on March 24, 1997. Rush worked with gospel and African choirs on the album who backed her on three of the tracks.^[1] Chiefly produced by Nick Patrick (record producer), eight of the eleven songs on Credo are cover versions, with two original songs co-written by Rush. Notable songs featured on the album are renditions of Cheap Trick's "The Flame" (1988) and "The Places You Find Love," originally recorded by Barbra Streisand in 1988 and then by Quincy Jones for his 1989 Back on the Block album, as well as a cover of John Farnham's 1987 Australian hit "A Touch of Paradise."

The album did enter the charts in her most loyal market, Germany, where it reached number 26 on the German Albums Chart.^[2] This was followed by "Sweet Thing," one of the few uptempo songs on the album, while "Piano in the Dark," a cover of the Brenda Russell song, was released as a promo-only single after this.^[3] Like her previous two albums, Credo went unreleased in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Credits taken from album CD booklet.^[5]

• Jennifer Rush – Vocals, Background Vocals (1–2, 4, 6–9)
• Barry J. Eastmond – Keyboards (8), Drum Programming (8)
• Bobbie Stern – Saxophone (4, 9)
• Frank Musker – Background Vocals (1)
• Gordon Chambers – Background Vocals (8)
• Grant Mitchell – Keyboards 6 Programming (4)
• Jackie Rawe – Background Vocals (4, 6–7, 9)
• Juliette Roberts – Background Vocals (4)
• Ira A. Siegel – Guitars (8)
• Kym Mazelle – Background Vocals (4)
• Luis Jardin – Bass (3, 5, 9, 11)
• Margo Buchannan – Background Vocals (4, 6–7, 9)
• Monica Reed Price – Background Vocals (4)
• Ola Ohablue – Background Vocals (6–7, 9)
• Phil Palmer – Acoustic Guitars (1), Guitars (2)
• Richard Darbyshire – Background Vocals (1–2)
• Robbie Macktintosh – Guitars (3, 6–7, 9), Acoustic Guitars (5)
• Shawn Pelton – Drums (3, 11)
• Steve Pigott – Keyboards (1–2), Drum Programming (1–2)
• Steve Sidelnyk – Drum Programming (5–6, 9–10), Percussion Programming (10)
• Wix – Keyboards (3, 5–7, 9–11)

• Treehouse Choir (Background Vocals on Tracks 1, 5 and 10):
  • Sipho Mbele
  • Faith Kekana
  • Victor Nxumalo
  • Deborah Fraser
  • Morris Mbongwa
  • Stella Khumalo
  • Bonginkosi Khulu
  • Mandisa Dlanga

• Credo at Discogs (list of releases)