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"One Life" is a song by all-female German pop band No Angels. It was written by American musicians Nasri Atweh, Hakim Bell, Adam Messinger, Akene "The Champ" Dunkley, and group members Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, and Jessica Wahls for their fifth regular studio album ''Welcome to the Dance'' (2009). Produced by Bell and Dunkley, featuring additional production by The Messengers, consisting of Atweh and Messinger, the anthemic, self-manifesto song was created as a request to celebrate life, featuring autobiographical elements lyrically.〔 Musically, "One Life" introduced a change in sound for the quartet, as the track took the band's work further into the contemporary dance-pop and electropop genre predominantly associated with the introduction of the ''Welcome to the Dance'' album.〔 Well received by critics, who commended on the group's musical development, it was premiered live at a concert in St. Pölten, Austria on July 3, 2009 and eventually released as the album's leading single on CD maxi single and as a digital download on August 21, 2009 in German-speaking Europe. "One Life" debuted at number fifteen on the German Singles Chart, making it the band's fifteenth top twenty entry there, and number twenty-nine on the Ö3 Austria Top 40. While it completely failed to chart in Switzerland, the song became the band's first leading single to miss the German top five on the national chart.〔"(No Angels zurück in den Charts! )". ''Official Website''. Retrieved on 2009-09-01.〕 The only single release from ''Welcome to the Dance'', it was the last single to feature founding member Benaissa who left the group in September 2010 following her suspended sentence. ==Background== In 2007, four members of the original line-up of the No Angels reunited on their first studio album in four years. While the band's comeback effort ''Destiny'' (2007) was a commercial success, it received generally lukewarm reviews from music critics and, in comparison to earlier successes, it underperformed with a domestic sales total of about 30,000 copies. Its leading single "Goodbye to Yesterday" emerged as the album's only top ten hit, and although both the group members and their record company, Universal Music Domestic Pop, felt increasing discontent and uncertainty about the direction of the project by summer 2007, it was not until the No Angels' participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia, the quartet hit an all-time career low, following their performance with the German ESC entry "Disappear," which finished 23rd out of the 25 countries that participated in the final voting in May 2008. As a direct consequence, planned recordings for the band's next studio album during the summer were indefinitely delayed, and the group went on a two months-hiatus to rethink and analyze the past year.〔 In July 2008, the band signed a management deal with Khalid Schröder's Kool Management.〔 He subsequently arranged meetings with his North American clients for the No Angels, including Canadian singer-songwriter Nasri Atweh and hip-hop producer Hakim "Prince Hakim" Bell, son of Kool founding member Robert Bell. In August 2008, whilst Nadja Benaissa spent her summer holidays with her daughter in Los Angeles, California, he spontaneously decided to send fellow band members Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, and Jessica Wahls overseas to join Benaissa for writing and recording sessions at New Kids on the Block singer Donnie Wahlberg's mansion, eventually green-lighting the start of the project. One of the first songs ever all four band members jointly started writing lyrics for, "One Life" was written during the second out of five separate studio sessions for the ''Welcome to the Dance'' album. Conceived during a creative session in Berlin, Germany in September 2009, the band began to work on melodic ideas for the song over an instrumental track by New Jersey hip-hop producer Akene "The Champ" Dunkley and Bell, both of them having previously worked with the group's management mates Kool & The Gang. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「One Life (No Angels song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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