Beautiful Life

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Beautiful Life (Lydia Canaan song)

"Beautiful Life" is a Lydia Canaan song. It was released in July 1995 as the first single from her debut studio album, The Sound of Love.

The song was presented to radio and media at the Midem in Cannes, France in February 1995. That Spring Canaan's international release of "Beautiful Life"' by London-based Pulse-8 Records gained her international critical acclaim, eliciting comparisons to Celine Dion, Cher, and Tina Turner (Billboard,Music Week,Music Monitor), radio promo tour in the UK, radio airplay in the UK, Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East. In 1998 it was exhibited on Billboard magazine's TalentNet and topped the charts for months at No. 1., endorsed by iconic radio personality Casey Kasem.

Lydia Canaan performed "Beautiful Life" at the launch of MTV Europe held in Beirut, with the participation of Pato Banton, Urban Cookie Collective, and Rozalla on May 12, 1995. President of MTV Europe Peter Einstein stated during a press conference: "MTV is proud and privileged to play Lydia's videos on Music-Non-Stop Show...All at MTV have fallen in love with Lydia, her songs, and her performance".

Beautiful Life (Nick Fradiani song)

Beautiful Life is the coronation song from the winner of the 14th season of the singing reality show competition American Idol, Nick Fradiani. The song was written by Chris Carrabba, Rykeyz, Ayanna Elese.

Background

The song was written by Chris Carrabba of the rock band Dashboard Confessional together with his friends Rykeyz and Ayanna Elese. According to Carrabba, the song was written in "a little bit of a vacuum," and how it came to be submitted to Idol was "still a blur" to him. It was given to Fradiani as his coronation song. Fradiani first heard the song the day after making Idol's top three and recognized Chris Carrabba's voice who he said he was a fan of since high school. Fradiani described the single as "fun. meets the Goo Goo Dolls meets me" and he was happy how it came out.Scott Borchetta, the mentor on the show, thought that the song won Fradiani the competition. The song was released for sale after Fradiani performed the song in the final two performance night on May 12, 2015.