1. Jennifer Rush achieved initial success during the mid-1980s with several singles and studio albums, including the million-selling single "The Power of Love", which she co-wrote and released in 1984.
24 Facts About Jennifer Rush
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Jennifer Rush has two older brothers, Robert "Bobby" Stern and Stephen Stern, and a younger sister.
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Jennifer Rush and her brothers lived with their mother until she was a toddler, and then with their father and his second wife on the Upper West Side of the borough of Manhattan.
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Jennifer Rush studied violin at the Juilliard School and took piano lessons, although she did not enjoy these instruments and instead took to playing the guitar in private.
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When Jennifer Rush was nine, the Stern family moved to Germany.
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Jennifer Rush returned to the United States a few years later to live with her mother's family.
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Jennifer Rush lived for a time in Seattle, Washington, when her father was briefly a professor of voice at the University of Washington.
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In 1982, following McDaniels's persistence, Jennifer Rush moved to Wiesbaden, Germany, where her father was an opera singer for a short period of time.
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Jennifer Rush was then advised to change her name which she did legally.
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Jennifer Rush was first signed to CBS Songs Publishing Company as a songwriter in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Jennifer Rush has never had vocal training, however she is proficient in music theory due to her two years in the children's orchestra as first violinist.
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The single did not enter any charts and she changed her stage name to Jennifer Rush the following year.
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In 1983, Jennifer Rush released her first two singles under her new stage name, titled "Into My Dreams" and "Come Give Me Your Hand", both of which Jennifer Rush co-wrote with producers Gunther Mende and Candy DeRouge.
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In February and March 1984, Jennifer Rush toured with the Berlin Philharmonic on a series of James Bond-themed concerts.
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Jennifer Rush's next hit single was "Ring of Ice", which entered the German singles chart in October 1984 and peaked at number 22.
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Mende and DeRouge were the producers behind Rush's debut album Jennifer Rush, released in West Germany in October 1984.
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Jennifer Rush herself co-wrote eight of the ten songs on the album, and other songwriters included Mary Susan Applegate, Patrick Henderson, Richard Feldmann, Marcy Levy and Eric Klapperton.
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Jennifer Rush's debut album was a big success in West Germany, where it spent 97 weeks on the chart and peaked twice at number 2 throughout its chart run.
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Jennifer Rush again worked with producers Gunther Mende and Candy DeRouge, as well as songwriter Mary Susan Applegate, and herself co-wrote eight of the ten songs on the album.
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On this album Jennifer Rush worked with American producers and songwriters Desmond Child, Bruce Roberts, Andy Goldmark, Ellen Shipley, Morrie Brown, Taylor Rhodes, Tom DeLuca, Tom Whitlock, Rick Nowels, Mark Radice and Michael Bolton.
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In 1989, Jennifer Rush recorded a duet with Placido Domingo titled "Till I Loved You".
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On her next studio album Wings of Desire, Jennifer Rush worked with new writers and producers who were not involved on earlier albums, with the exception of Michael Bolton and Bob Halligan Jr.
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Between her leaving CBS and signing with EMI - Jennifer Rush studied micro and macro economics at Harvard University in Boston.
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Jennifer Rush publicly acknowledged that being less known as a singer in the United States, allowed her to raise her daughter in the US with a more stable and somewhat private environment.