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fame as a glamorous beefcake in a 1985 Levi's commercial. His first single was the 1986 UK #5 hit "Each Time You Break My Heart" from his self-titled debut album. Written and produced by Madonna and Stephen Bray, it also cracked both the U.S. dance chart (remix by Shep Pettibone) and the Top 50 in Canada. Madonna also sang the backing vocals on the tune, adding to its allure. Kamen also had a #16 follow-up in the UK with the second single, "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever", although his later singles were less-commercially successful in the UK but more so in the rest of Europe, particularly Italy, France, Germany and Spain. Kamen's second album Us (1988) was produced by Patrick Leonard and again featured Madonna, this time as a backing vocalist on the song "Tell Me." In 1989 Kamen performed the song "Turn It Up" on the soundtrack to Walt Disney's film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and in 1990, he would have his biggest hit in the self-penned, "I Promised Myself." The tune was the fourth highest played record in Europe in 1990 and reached #1 in eight European countries. In 2004, a new dance remix of "I Promised Myself" was featured on a 2004 various artists collection in Europe and three years later, in 2007, the Spanish singer José Galisteo recorded his own rendition of the song, reigniting Kamen fever.