How Can I Ease the Pain

"How Can I Ease the Pain"
"How Can I Ease the Pain"
Single by Lisa Fischer
from the album So Intense
B-side	"Reachin' 4/U"
Released	June 1, 1991
Recorded	1991
Genre	R&B; soul;
Length	5:24 (album version); 4:16 (radio edit);
Label	Elektra
Songwriters	Lisa Fischer; Narada Michael Walden;
Producers	Narada Michael Walden; Louis Biancaniello;
Lisa Fischer singles chronology
Music video
	"How Can I Ease the Pain" on YouTube

"How Can I Ease the Pain" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lisa Fischer, released in June 1991 by Elektra Records as the first single from her only album, So Intense (1991). It is written by Fischer with Narada Michael Walden, who produced it with associate producer Louis Biancaniello. The song spent two weeks at number-one on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.^[1] It also peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1992, the single won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female and it also won a 1992 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. It remains Fischer's biggest and most well-known hit. In 1997, "How Can I Ease the Pain" was sampled by rap group Three 6 Mafia for their hit "Late Nite Tip".

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