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PEOPLE & ARTSFriday 11 March 2016
With songwriting, actress Rita Wilson finds a new voice
MESFIN FEKADU way. “It’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m
AP Music Writer out here, I’m doing a com-
NEW YORK (AP) — “Cry- edy, I’m laughing!’ But you
ing, Crying,” the second go home and you’re think-
track on Rita Wilson’s new ing about what’s going to
album, describes the com- happen in your life and are
plexity the actress-singer you going to be OK?”
faced last year after learn- “Crying, Crying,” which
ing she had breast cancer. features Wilson singing hon-
“I’m going to all these doc- est lyrics over a fun beat,
tor’s appointments in the is one of many tunes she
morning, but at night I’m co-wrote — a first for the
going off and doing this performer — for “Rita Wil-
comedy,” she said of star- son,” to be released Friday.
ring in “Fish in the Dark” She’s found a new voice in
with Larry David on Broad- songwriting and collabo-
This Feb. 29, 2016 image taken from video shows actress-singer and producer Rita Wilson during
an interview in New York to promote her self-titled album, out Friday, March 11.
Associated Press
rated with a number of ed to do,” she said of writ- formed a number of shows
well-known producers and ing a song that captured at the Cafe Carlyle in New
writers to craft a country- her emotions. York City. She will launch
pop record that’s cohesive “’Grateful’ has a very spe- a tour March 29 in Solana
throughout the 15 tracks. cial place in my heart ... Beach, California, to sup-
The album was co-written because it’s reflective of port the album.
with Dan Wilson, who had what I’ve been through She’ll combine her film and
in hand in writing iconic in the last few years in my music worlds with the up-
songs like Adele’s “Some- life.” coming “My Big Fat Greek
one Like You” and the Di- After creating 30 songs in Wedding 2,” a film she pro-
xie Chicks’ “Not Ready to Los Angeles and Nashville, duced, has a role in and
Make Nice.” Other collab- Tennessee, Wilson realized wrote music for. She sings
orators include Babyface she had a full album of new on the track, “Even More
(Whitney Houston, Toni material. Mine,” which appears at
Braxton), Stephan Moccio Not all of the tracks on “Rita the end of the movie.
(The Weeknd, Miley Cyrus), Wilson” are based personal “Strong Tonight,” from her
Sugarland’s Kristian Bush, experiences, but some hit new album, will be cov-
Ron Aniello (Bruce Spring- home: “Still Gone” is about ered by Connie Britton’s
steen) and Nathan Chap- “losing my dad and my two character on the TV series
man, who was a producer girlfriends in a very short “Nashville.”
on all five Taylor Swift al- period of time,” and “Girls The 59-year-old performer
bums. Night In” describes a night said she was afraid to tack-
After her first album, 2012’s during which Wilson and le music in the beginning.
“AM/FM,” Wilson was en- her girlfriends trade their sti- “We all, I think, are really
couraged to write songs by lettos for sweatpants. scared to take chances
her friend Kara DioGuardi, “I got all my girlfriends to- and to try new things, and
the popular songwriter who gether and we rented a ... we put ourselves in boxes
has worked with Carrie Un- small studio in the neigh- and we just say, ‘I can’t do
derwood, Christina Agu- borhood and we had a this,’” she said.
ilera and Kelly Clarkson. choreographer come in “I think to be able to have
“(She asked), ‘Do you have and teach us all the dance music right now at this point
anything you want to say?’ moves for Janet Jackson’s in my life is such a huge
And I said, ‘Yes,’” Wilson re- ‘All for You,’” she said with blessing, but ... I had to get
called. a laugh. over whatever judgment
That’s when they wrote Wilson, who has appeared you feel is going to come
“Grateful.” And Wilson in a number of films and at you. I’m not 25 years old,
cried. TV shows and is married to so hopefully people will be
“This is exactly what I want- Tom Hanks, recently per- buying this.”q
