Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)

"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"
Single by Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler
Released30 May 1989 (1989-05-30)[1]
Recorded1989
StudioBritannia Row (London)[2]
Genre
Length3:52
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Soul II Soul singles chronology
"Keep On Movin'"
(1989) 		"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)"
(1989) 		"Get a Life"
(1990)
Music video
"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)" on YouTube

"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)" is a song by British R&B band Soul II Soul featuring the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra. It is an alternate version of a song that appears on their secondary debut album, Club Classics Vol. One (1989) (titled Keep On Movin' in the United States), and was released as its second single on 30 May 1989 by Virgin. "Back to Life" is one of two songs on the album featuring British singer Caron Wheeler and gained success in both North America and Europe, topping the charts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and peaking at number four in the United States. Its music video, directed by Monty Whitebloom & Andy Delaney, of Big TV!, sees the group performing in a forest. Soul II Soul won their first Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal with the song in 1990. It was later included on a tenth-anniversary edition of the album.

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