The ARD Olympic Song Games of Passion was composed and produced for the broadcasting of the Olympic Games in Brazil. The singer Daniela Mercury, selling over 11 million albums up to date, is the most successful Brazilian singer at the moment. Outside of South America, she has also been very successful in the US and Japan. With the ARD Olympic Song Games of Passion the singer Daniela Mercury dares to make a step towards Europe. The song Games of Passion was recorded by the world wide successful NDR Bigband under the direction of Wolf Kerschek, who has worked successfully in the past in this constellation with major Brazilian artists such as João Bosco. NDR demonstrates with this music production responsibility for the second time for the ARD Olympic Song after the Sydney Games in the year 2000. At that time more than one million fans bought the album with the song Australia. This time there will also be an album with 15 songs in different musical styles of the host country from bossa nova to funk carioca, Jongo, Maracatu, and Samba reggae. The songs tell different Olympic stories from Olympic childhood dream to Olympians from a country with civil war, giving his countrymen hope. The CD tells Stories of Olympic fates, triumphs and defeats, hopes and dreams. The Echo Award winner Wolf Kerschek composed and produced the Songs of the Album Games of Passion for the Olympics 2016 in Rio in Germany and Brazil. Wolf Kerschek works as arranger for the who's who of the international jazz scene and is responsible for the orchestral sound of many large German music productions from Helene Fischer to Rammstein. In 2016 Wolf Kerschek broke the Guinness World Record by conducting during a concert in the stadium in Frankfurt an orchestra with 7548 musicians. He is now officially the conductor of the largest orchestra in the world. Wolf Kerschek wrote the orchestral arrangements for the FIFA Anthem, which is played at each entry of players into the stadium. Thus billion of people all over the world have heard the Music from Wolf Kerschek in the area of the great sport. For months, Daniela Mercury, Wolf Kerschek and the NDR Bigband in cooperation working with musician of the NDR Orchestra Elbphilharmonie on ARD Olympic song Games of Passion and other songs of this album. You have to hear the result of this music production!
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