Alannah Myles

You're kinda cool, a little rough
You're skin and bones and you talk so tough
You take your time, you like to make me waiting
Just when I'm ready to accelerate

You wanna see me in the middle of the night
You hit the streets, you're riding every night, you wanna

Chorus:
Kick start my heart, kick start my heart
Kick start my heart, kick start my heart

You get me going, you got the touch
And then you tell me that I want too much
You call me angel, say I'm a child
Then you hit me with that rebel smile

You wanna take me and you know I wanna go
I lose control so easily, you know how to

Chorus

Kick start my heart, kick start my heart

(Solo)

Chorus repeats out

(You get me going, you got my heart, you get me going, you got the touch)

When Alannah Myles played the role of a young aspiring singer on an episode of The Kids Of Degrassi Street, it was more than just an act. Less than a decade later, the daughter of Canadian Hall Of Fame Broadcaster William Douglas Byles would be a Grammy and Juno Award-winning singer best known for her 1990 international hit “Black Velvet”.

Myles (who changed her last name from Byles as a teen) began writing songs at nine and was participating in Toronto’s Kiwanis Music Festival at twelve. While gigging solo at nineteen across southern Ontario, songwriter/musician Christopher Ward invited her to form a rock and blues cover band with him. During this time Ward became MuchMusic’s first VJ.

Ward spent seven years trying to get Myles signed. He produced a three song demo for her, and her entertainment lawyer Stephen Stohn came up with the idea of making a ‘video demo’ of Myles singing “Just One Kiss”. This finally attracted Warner Music Canada in 1987. The demo was passed along to Warner’s US affiliate labels and Atlantic Records also took interest.

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