Les Fleur
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{{Infobox Single |
| Name = Les Fleurs
| Cover =
| Artist = [[4 Hero|4hero]]
| from Album = [[Creating Patterns]]
| B-side = "9 By 9"
| Released = [[2001]]
| Format = [[CD single]]
| Recorded = 2001
| Genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]
| Length = 6:05
| Label = [[Talkin' Loud]]
| Writer = [[Richard Rudolph]]<br/>[[Charles Stepney]]
| Producer = [[Mark Clair]]
| Certification =
| Chart position = * #53 <small>([[UK Singles Chart|United Kingdom]])</small>
| Last single = "[[Escape That]]"<br/>(2001)
| This single = "Les Fleurs"<br/>(2001)
| Next single = "[[Hold It Down]]"<br/>(2001)
| Misc =
}}
'''"Les Fleurs"''' is a song from [[1971]]. It was performed by [[Minnie Riperton]], written by her husband [[Richard Rudolph]] & [[Charles Stepney]] and was featured on the album ''Come To My Garden.'' In [[2001]], a [[Cover version|cover]] of it was made by [[4hero]] with [[Carina Andersson]] as the lead vocalist. It was later featured in a [[Baileys Irish Cream|Baileys]] [[advertising|commercial]] and the [[refrain|chorus]] section is especially popular in advertising due to its building and lively nature - for instance recently in an advertisement for the [[BBC]]'s [[Life in the Undergrowth]] [[wildlife]] [[Documentary film|documentary]].
The original version is also used in the H&M spring 2008 commercial.
The cover version was also used in a [[video]] called ''The Future Of Gaming'' by [[Sony Computer Entertainment Europe]], which is listed as the winner in the Ambient Media category on the D&AD Showreel 2002.
The Danish artist [[Kenneth Bager]] has also made a cover version af this, in his track Fragment Seven "Les Fleurs" feat. Julee Cruise.
"Les Fleurs" has been sampled by [[Jurassic 5]] on "Thin Line", [[Charizma]] and [[Peanut Butter Wolf]] on "Apple Juice Break," [[Gang Starr]] on "Jazz Music", [[Black Sheep (hip hop group)|Black Sheep]] on "Similak Child", and by the East Bay hardcore band, [[Please Inform the Captain This Is a Hijack]], on "Robot Rampage in a Luxury World."
American jazz Pianist Ramsey Lewis has also covered this version
[[Category:1971 singles]]
[[Category:2001 singles]]
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