[1] Around the same time of its release, Yanni's newfound relationship with American actress Linda Evans, who had become a fan of his music, received press attention.

[3] She mentioned this as the pair sat by a lake in Evans's estate in Tacoma, Washington, while listening to Yanni's music on a cassette.

Yanni then made a tape of Evans's favourite songs of his, which were the compositions more mellow in style, to avoid her having to switch between albums.

[6][3] In the liner notes, Yanni wrote: "This album represents my life's passions during the past ten years.

[13] It remained at the top of the chart for 23 consecutive weeks until it was knocked off by In the Wake of the Wind by David Arkenstone, in June 1991.

[14] Private Music organised a nine-month marketing campaign for the album, which gained further commercial momentum towards the end of 1990 following nationwide media exposure of Yanni's relationship with Evans.

[16][17] In a review by Johnny Loftus of AllMusic, "The album that launched a thousand wind machines, Reflections of Passion established Yanni as the face of contemporary instrumental music.

It propelled him onto the world stage -- literally, since he performed concerts in such locales as the Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City.

The exotic places fit Yanni's sweeping compositions, which incorporated crashing percussion and fleets of surging synthesizers to approximate what a wind storm would sound like if it was made of melody.

"Nostalgia", "True Nature" and "Farewell" all worked on simplistic, yet extremely powerful piano lines that ebbed and flowed with new age grace.

"[19] In April 1991, Yanni began his first major concert tour across the US that featured a 10-piece band, including a string quartet, performing in 31 cities in six weeks.