Alannah Myles  by Alannah Myles

The Canadian singer Alannah Myles from Toronto will release her debut album in 1989, which will bear her name as its title, and her career will immediately skyrocket. The single Black Velvet with its blues rock flair will become one of the iconic rock songs at the end of the '80s and the beginning of the following decade.

The production of the album was by David Tyson, who along with Christopher Ward, who also performs backing vocals, wrote the overwhelming majority of the songs for Alannah Myles' first record.

Alannah Myles is an album that offers a typical rock sound of its era. Nothing more, nothing less, and that is enough for it to enter the Top-10 of most countries in the Western world at that time. For example, it reached No.1 in Canada and Finland, No.2 in Australia and Germany, while in the U.S., it reached No.5, selling over 1,000,000 copies there.