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Media Feature - (11/18/2001) |
Russ
Wins Heart of an Angel
16 NOV 2001
From SYDNEY CONFIDENTIAL
WELSH songstress Charlotte Church may have just released her fourth album, Enchantment, but she's still only 15 years-old.
No wonder she seems more excited by her last job, recording the title song and soundtrack for the new Russell Crowe film, A Beautiful Mind.
And like any 15-year-old, she giggled that she would crumble if she ran into the Beautiful Man at the film's premiere.
"I don't know if I'll meet him," Church said of Crowe. "I can't go up to him because I'll feel stupid going (quickly), 'I sang your song. Bye'."
Church, while obviously in raptures about the Oscar-hyped, Ron Howard film, told showbiz editor Michael Bodey she didn't think the Tough Man could pull off the schizophrenic character, scientist John Nash.
"I couldn't believe it because I saw him in Gladiator and I could never, ever imagine he could play this role so well because he's kinda chunky and he looks a bit geeky but he's just unbelievable in it."
Titanic composer James Horner used Church's voice, often described as "angelic", as a singular instrument on the soundtrack, said Church, "So I'm kind of doing all the oohs and aahs."
Just as Church's latest album is likely to have her fans oohing and aahing - and her critics moaning and complaining. The "popera phenomenon", as her press would have it, takes another risk traversing arias, Celtic folk songs and Broadway show tunes on the album. She even takes on Babs Streisand's Papa Can You Hear Me? from Yentl.
It's typical of her career path, she laughed. "As you know, I'm 15, so I'm really indecisive. I still don't know what I want to do."
But her critics, those who compare her with Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman in diluting classical music, matter little, she says.
"If it weren't for people like that, in the next 30 years classical music would become sort of extinct," Church says.
"Opera and classical music is such a perfect art form, it's so beautiful and it'll just get swallowed up by other types of music like pop and r&b, so you have to put a
commercial spin on it to make it sell to keep it alive.
"So I don't see why they should be criticising us."
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