We chat to soul sensation Beverley Knight as she celebrates her 50th birthday with a new album. Weekend
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Beverley explains: “My new album covers the kaleidoscope of my soul influences from disco, R&B, funk, gospel through to northern soul and big ballads. Maintaining a dual career in acting meant that for the first time, I stepped back from my usual songwriting to allow some of the world’s greatest songwriters to scribe my thoughts. This album is a true team effort of incredible talents for which I am truly grateful.
Beverley has had several Top 10 albums and sold over a million albums in the UK, with four gold-certified. Her most recent studio album Soulsville went straight into the UK Top 10. “I feel as though with time everything as opened out for me. I’ve had to change as well. I’ve had to look at myself hard in the mirror and say you want to get to the top, be a global artist, be a global name. What changes could I make first in order to get there? I had to go through that process. Just before the pandemic kicked in, I changed my team and in so doing it was almost instantaneous. It was like the universe saw I was ready and opportunities came along.
“I feel as though I am about to step into a whole new level of wonder because I have come into my power”, concludes Beverley. “My career is not a big shiny billboard poster that gets replaced with the next star in waiting. Mine is a novel, and I just entered the Fifth and most exciting chapter of it.”
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