Frankie Muriel Releases “If I Say”
With the forthcoming release of I’m Still Standing, Frankie Muriel proves that true artistry only deepens with time. Due later this year, the ten-track collection unpacks a lifetime of love, loss, resilience, and reinvention—anchored by a striking reimagining of “If I Say,” the very song that launched Muriel’s career.
Originally penned in his early twenties, “If I Say” became Muriel’s first Billboard-charting single, landed in heavy rotation on MTV, and propelled him from packed clubs to sprawling arenas around the world. “It was such a marker in my life’s journey,” Muriel reflects. “When I started working on this album, I thought about how songs become our personal soundtracks. I wondered what I could bring to a song I wrote in my twenties, singing it now in my late fifties. How would my life’s experiences deepen the lyric and feeling of it?”
That question lies at the heart of I’m Still Standing, an album that distills Muriel’s remarkable story into a powerful testament of perseverance. The record soars to gospel-choir heights on the power ballad “Sweet Surrender,” pays tender tribute to his mother on the stirring “Home,” and offers a piano-driven love letter to his daughter with “Crazy.” Muriel showcases his vocal finesse on a luminous reinterpretation of Terence Trent D’Arby’s “Let Her Down Easy,” and tips his hat to his glam-metal roots by breathing new life into the KINGOFTHEHILL favorite “If I Say.”
A lifelong musical chameleon, Muriel’s journey is the stuff of rock-and-roll legend. As a teenager, he became a hometown hero fronting St. Louis sensations Broken Toyz, before catapulting onto MTV with KINGOFTHEHILL and cracking the Billboard Hot 100. When grunge shifted the landscape, he pivoted with electrifying dexterity, creating Dr. Zhivegas—a disco-rock juggernaut that toured North America and Mexico for three decades. Now, stepping out under his own name, Muriel channels every triumph and heartbreak into songs that resonate with anyone refusing to fade quietly into the background.
WithI’m Still Standing, Frankie Muriel doesn’t just revisit the song that started it all—he reclaims it with the lived-in wisdom, soul, and unbreakable spirit of a true survivor.
