"Fragile"
...is a song composed by English musician Sting from his 1987 album ...Nothing Like the Sun. Released as a single the following year, it placed to number 70 on the UK Singles Chart. Sung additionally in both Spanish and Portuguese under the title Fragilidad, it appeared twice more on his 1988 EP variant of the album, Nada como el sol. The Spanish version features as a b-side to I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying.
The song is a tribute to Ben Linder, an American civil engineer who was killed by the Contras in 1987 while working on a hydroelectric project in Nicaragua.
It was also used in many ads after the September 11th tragedy and was the opening song in Sting's ...All This Time concert, recorded that evening.
The song been covered by many international artists including Québécois singer Bruno Pelletier, Turkish bağlama artist Ahmet Koç, American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, American trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, American soul singer Isaac Hayes, Mercedes Sosa and Pedro Aznar from Argentina, Nils Landgren, Shirley Clamp, Dionne Warwick, Julio Iglesias, Jesse Cook, Stringmansassy, Holly Cole, ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, 12 Girls Band in Shanghai, China, Tose Proeski during his concerts and on his 2011 album So Ljubav Ot Tose and others. It was performed during the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Tupac Shakur sampled the song for the unreleased original of When Thugz Cry.[citation needed] It has scored rendition on the instrumental music side as well, trumpeter Bruce Glover covered the song from his 2005 album "Fragile."[1] In 2006, saxophonist Michael Lington covered the song from his album "A Song for You."[2][3] The following year, guitarist Blake Aaron covered the song from his album "Desire."[4][5] German singer Angelzoom recorded a version for her second album "Nothing is Infinite" in 2010. She also relesaed a promotional video on YouTube[6]. In 2011, 2Cellos covered this song, played as classical music. They are a cello duo consisting of Croatian cellists Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser.
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