A Garden of Peace Lyrics
About
“Garden Of Peace” is almost fragile in its simplicity. Without accompaniment, playing on an acoustic grand piano with an electric piano overdub, Smith traces out a melodic “quiet place” to close out a tracklist dominated by Marcus Miller basslines and Donald Smith vocals
Decades later, Smiths “quiet place” would find a new popularity among hip-hop artists. Jay-Z sampled “Garden” for his 1996 Dead Presidents, a song which helped solidify his hip-hop icon status. In 2006, Mary J Blige sampled the melody in Take Me As I Am from her Grammy-Award winning The Breakthrough album. All in all, “Garden of Peace” has been sampled in almost 70 songs by a diverse range of artists; from Stacie Orrico to Meek Mill.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
When asked in a 2013 interview about how his music was being sampled by hip-hop artists, Smith seemed more than a little surprised at which song was being sampled:
“Expansions” I understand; everybody’s sampled that. But what is blowing my mind is these young kids are going crazy all over the world over a song I did years ago – no drums, no nothing, just keyboards, called “A Garden Of Peace.”
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