7 Seconds (song)
"7 Seconds" is a song composed by Senegalese and Swedish singer-songwriters Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry with Cameron McVey and Jonathan Sharp. It was released in June 1994 by Columbia as a single performed by N'Dour and Cherry, and achieved success, reaching the number-one position in numerous countries; in France, it stayed at number one for 16 weeks, a record at the time. N'Dour featured the song on his seventh album, The Guide (Wommat) (1994), while Cherry included it on her 1996 album Man. "7 Seconds" also won the MTV Europe Music Award in the category for Best Song of 1994. Its music video was directed by French director Stéphane Sednaoui. NME magazine ranked the song number 40 in their list of the 50 best songs of 1994.
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| Single by Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry | ||||
| from the album The Guide (Wommat) | ||||
| B-side | "Mame Bamba" | |||
| Released | 7 June 1994 | |||
| Studio | Power Play (New York) | |||
| Length | 5:07 | |||
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| "7 Seconds" on YouTube | ||||
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