Kiss From A Rose - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

• Grammy Winning vocalist, Darlene Koldenhoven, recorded her arrangement of Kiss From a Rose on her 2011 CD, Solitary Treasures.
• Guitarist John Williams performed an instrumental version for his album "John Williams Plays The Movies"
• Irish vocal trio Trinití have recorded cover versions of the song.
• The Mississippi dynamic rock group AllyriA released a cover in their own version on their Myspace.
• Lee DeWyze performed a cover version as his "Songs from the Movies" category entry in the ninth season of the American Idol. DeWyze went on to become the winner in the competition.
• Jack Black performed a cover version on an American Idol charity special in 2007. The judges (Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and Simon Cowell) each gave joke reviews of the performance (Randy said he wasn't feeling it, but that it would help if Black got better pants, Paula gave a negative review, while Simon said that Black sounded better than Sanjaya Malakar). However Seal, being the original artist who wrote and sang the song, had stood up for Black and said it was "the best rendition of Kiss from a Rose ever heard".
• Head Control System released a cover version of the song on their official Myspace.
• The King's Singers recorded a version of the song on their 1999 album Circle of Life.
• Katherine Jenkins recorded her version of the track in her 2007 album Rejoice.
• Finnish symphonic metal Northern Kings recorded a cover version as a track on their second album Rethroned, which was also released as a single.
• Welsh male voice choir Only Men Aloud! also sang an arrangement by Tim Rhys-Evans & Jeffrey Howard on the BBC 1 Show Last Choir Standing in 2008. They subsequently released it on their self-titled début album.
• US soul singer Jazmine Sullivan covered the song for French TV show Taratata. Her performance first aired on 15 May 2009, on French TV and is also available online on Taratata's official website.
• Hank Marvin covered the song on his 2000 album Marvin at the Movies.
• Idina Menzel covered the song during her 2008 Fall tour promoting her album I Stand.
• Japanese artist Angela Aki rendition included Japanese lyrics on her fourth single This Love.
• French Canadian singer Bruno Pelletier covered the song for his 2007 tour of Bruno Pelletier et le GrosZorchestre.
• A karaoke version of the song was featured in an episode of the third season of the NBC television series Community titled Studies in Modern Movement, performed by Jim Rash as Dean Pelton and Joel McHale as Jeff Winger.
• A hard-rock version of the song can be found on the 2012 record Beautiful Alien by Atom Smash.
• Swedish rock band April Divine have also a cover of this, and it was released upon their album Redemption (2010).
• 12 Stones released a cover of the song online in 2012.