Left My Heart In Tokyo

Album: Single Release Only (2009)
Charted: 7
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Songfacts®:

  • This dance-pop number is the first single release from British female double-act, Mina Viva, who comprise Frankee Connolly and Britt Love.
  • Mina Viva wrote the song along with the British hit making team Xenomania (Girls Aloud, Alesha Dixon, Sugababes), French house producer Fred Falke and the Norwegian singer Annie.
  • This was one of the first songs that the girls wrote, sang and demoed. Frankee told I Like Music: "It's a brilliant song and as soon as we'd recorded it we knew we had our sound. It worked."

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