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| Length = | Label = Ritas Records, Jive Records〔 | Writer = Nina Miranda, Marc Brown〔 | Producer = Marc Brown, Nina Miranda, Mike Peden, Chris Franck〔 }} "Underwater Love" is a 1997 song by the English band, Smoke City. First released in 1994, the song did not receive recognition until its appearance in a Levi's commercial, upon which it was positively received critically and charted in ten countries. ==Background== The Brazilian inspired track was written by two of the band members who were admirers of 1970s funk, Santana and Gilberto Gil.〔(Smoke City ), AllMusic.com, Retrieved 27 July 2015〕 The song is built upon a gentle, constant guitar strum, drums and samples, some of which are rainforest noises, others are from "Bahia Soul" by Luiz Bonfá and "The Popcorn" by James Brown. The song's writers were credited as former school friends Miranda and and programmer Marc Brown. Miranda and Brown were again credited as producers together with Mike Peden and band member Chris Franck. It was first recorded in 1994,〔 and released in 1995 via Ritas Records,〔 the song became a hit after being used in a commercial for Levi's jeans.〔〔 Prior to this, it had been featured on the Fourth & Broadway/Island compilation "The Rebirth Of Cool Six".〔 Lead singer Nina Miranda, who was living in Brazil at the time, was asked to return to London to discuss signing the project.〔 Miranda and Smoke City were later based in London, but their interests were in Brazil. Miranda was proud that they had success in Portugal as that country was "in the middle of what we're about". Upon release, in 1997,〔 the song made the charts in ten countries. Underwater Love was included on the band's debut album which was titled "Flying Away".〔 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「Underwater Love (Smoke City song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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