Stronger

Album: Stronger (2000)
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Songfacts®:

  • The title track to Kristine W's second major label album, "Stronger" was one of her 16 #1 Dance hits and one of her most enduring songs. With a refrain of "My love is stronger than your pain," the song can be interpreted as a message to a lover, but Kristine's inspiration was something completely different. "That was watching my grandmother in the nursing home," she told us. "She was dying, and I had a baby. My grandma was fading out and I had this newborn baby. It was just such a circle of life moment. Like a tiny fragile flower. She'd nurtured me and now I have this new life I have to nurture." (Here's the full Kristine W interview.)
  • Kristine W (real last name: Weitz) wrote this song with Allan Rich and Jud Friedman, who also combined to write "I Don't Have The Heart," which was a #1 hit for James Ingram, and "Run To You," which Whitney Houston took to #31 in 1993.

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