Michele Pillar - Love Makes All The Difference

Wednesday 1st July 1992
Michele Pillar - Love Makes All The Difference
Michele Pillar - Love Makes All The Difference

STYLE: Pop
RATING 6 6 6 6 6 6
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 2159-233
LABEL: Urgent CD02784
FORMAT: CD Album
ITEMS: 1
RRP: £4.99

Reviewed by Chris Berry

Once a major CCM artist Stateside (albums on Sparrow), Michele then married ace guitarist Larry Carlton and slipped from view. Her voice has a silky MOR/pop quality almost the equal of Kelly Willard (with whom she once recorded many backup sessions). Now, at last, Michele's back and the results are...so, so. Every track starts off by grabbing your attention - the producer is obviously a Jonathan King-style expert in making you sit up and take notice. Unfortunately Michele, for whatever reason, often fails to deliver. That's not to say that you won't find the album a 'nice' listen, it's just that, as with a good deal of those nice, American lady's albums, you end up not really listening to them. We have an album here where Michele's voice only does real justice to the big-number weepie, and whilst she may like to rock-it with the best of 'em it doesn't come off. Hence the best track here is "A Song Worth Singing" - quite appropriate really. "Celebration Day" and "Love Makes All The Difference" try hard without really breaking through the quality of the intros. Pity really, I wanted to like it a lot

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Reader Comments

Posted by Don in state of Delaware @ 02:13 on May 19 2010

Michele Pillar is among the many ccm artists in my widespread ccm collection on vinyl and cd. Her 1982 lp (her debut I believe) which features "Walk Across Heaven" and duet "You were There all Along" with Lenny Leblanc; among my favorites. And then there are the songs "Reign on Me", "Look Who Loves you Now", and duet with Sheila Walsh "To Worship YOU":"Look who loves you" I have luved since the day I heard it on ccm radio the year it was released (1984). She has a nice quality vocal style, that gives her songs, a kinda popish polished style. It is soo nice to see her return to recording. GOD Bless! - Don



Posted by Trevor Kirk in Stoke-on-Trent, England @ 13:25 on Oct 10 2006

There's some information about Michele on Wikipedia via this link -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_pillar



Posted by Emanuel Nkulila in Los Angeles, California @ 07:53 on Jan 2 2006

I love Michelle Pillar. I first heard her song "You were there all along" when I was in Africa in 1983 and when I moved to the United States, her cassette was one of the first music albums that ever I bought. Where is she now?


Reply by Ken in Peoria @ 03:03 on Apr 12 2009

I found most of Michelle's songs on Rhapsody. I had to download the system for 14 days for free, but it was worth waiting for to listen to most of the songs I heard back from her 1983 album! Happy finding them! :-)

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Reply by Peggy in singapore @ 18:28 on Dec 9 2008

I love Michelle Pillar too. I first heard her song "You were there all along" in 80s her cassette was also one of the first music albums that ever I bought. A lot of times her songs from that album keeps ringing in my head.. i tried to look for it in iTunes, but cant get those songs from Reign On Me. Where can I download?

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Posted by Joyce Bailey in Grand Junction, CO @ 04:50 on Sep 23 2005

What happened this this wonderful, mellow Christian singer? I love her music.


Reply by Samuel Oda in Japan @ 16:11 on Dec 10 2007

Do a google search on Michelle Pillar. You'll get
a wilkipedia description of what she's up to now.
also on itunes there's a rerelease of a very early
Cd (considered part of CCM) available for download.
This woman is an awesome blessing from God.

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