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List Price: $6.98 | | Label: A&M
Salesrank: 1106520
Released: October 14, 1997 |
| Our Price: $13.98 |
| Used Price: $1.89 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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To Make Me Who I Am Track Listing:
1. Say What's in My Heart
2. Just to Be With You
3. Sweet Amelia
4. ...To Make Me Who I Am
5. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
6. Yes, I Love You
7. Your Sweet And Smiling Eyes
8. I Can't Change the Way You Don't Feel
9. Please Remember Me
10. What Did I Do (To Deserve You)
11. God Made You for Me
12. Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue
Editorial Review:
A quiet storm brews on the Babyface/Diane Warren-penned single "Say What's in My Heart," though it's the return of Linda Ronstadt on "Please Remember Me" and a cover of "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (arranged by Roberta Flack and Tony Rich, no less) that sounds best. Neville's long overdue for the big payday, and this album should have been it. --Jeff Bateman
To Make Me Who I Am Reviews:
To Make Me Who I Am Aaron Neville 
2007-01-15 - My favorite song is To Make Me Who I Am. I listen to it over and over
A Special Voice, A Special Musicality
2004-06-04 - This is one of my favorite cds. A huge fan of Aaron, I have followed his musical path for a long time. He excels in many different styles of music, but the songs written for this cd really showcase his voice beautifully.
Not only are the songs well-written, but his interpretation and passionate input raise the effort to a higher level.
A must-listen; a must-own.
A mature and beautiful album 
2002-12-05 - This is a beautiful album. Not all of the songs are perfect, sure, and some are notably deficient in comparison with the others, but as for those others - boy!
The title track is an achingly honest song, beautiful and painful at once and more moving with each listen. The ballads with Linda Ronstandt are not of the same standard as those they shared on her excellent '89 album "Cry Like a Rainstorm...", but they are still head and shoulders above most pop ballads you will hear.
Although some of the songs are not stand-outs for me personally, it must be said that the entire album does have a lovely, almost dreamlike sound to it which is actually very effective in its flow from track to track, and that is something that, I think, is becoming ever rarer these days in pop albums.
Buy this album, give it several listens, and I challenge you not to become seduced by it.
A Soulful, Musical Delight From Beginning to End!
2001-06-02 - I just read one review that said this collection of Aaron's music was too commercial.... I feel opposite of that opinion!!!
This CD has an over abundance of soft, rhythmic, emotion-filled songs that stay in your head for days.
First off, Aaron's high pitched, smooth voice sends a calm to the listener that is marked and only improved by the background vocals. The music itself is seducing. Just tremendous music!
My favorite song is "To Make Me Who I Am", the title song, which describes Aaron's struggles with a hard life of drug addiction, incarceration and his eventual recovery. It reminds me of my uncle and makes me feel strongly of what both of them have been through, and what they have overcome.
Sweet Amelia, Sweet and Smiling Eyes and God Made You For Me are some of the sweetest and most beautiful songs I've ever heard!
Way too commercial! OK not great 
2000-08-11 - You may like this CD at first but like most commercial sounding CDs, you'll get tired of it easily. Most of the songs sound like one another. The majority of them do not have much depth to speak of. The arrangement in "First time I ever saw your face" is just terrible. It totally ruined the song. Neville is obviously trying to make some quick $$ with this CD.
