I’ve been able to tell CeCe Winans that as well. I listened to her sing and she taught me – she was my first vocal coach in that way.
Whitney (and CeCe Winans), in some ways, taught me to sing. I keep laughing and saying God has a sense of humor because from the moment I saw the movie, I’ve been playing Rachel Marron in my bathroom ever since. I met her and CeCe Winans through watching Video Soul in Trinidad. Whitney had one of the best voices of all time.
Needless to say this changed and took on a heightened pressure in February.” The producers on board have rewritten The Bodyguard for the stage, and they’re starting it in London. Over 6 years, these producers have been working on this. A year and a half ago, I heard that they’re bringing The Bodyguard to the stage. “Two years ago I got this call from my agent – we’d been looking for a new Broadway show. And he grounds me and has yet has this amazing ability to make me fly! I love that man!” It’s so easy to get caught up because everyone’s telling you how great thou art, but being with someone who grounds you – that makes life worth living. I want to be with HIM! and Like Emile Sande says… and when all is gone, you will find him next to me. When this is all over, I want to see him. He believes in me more than I believe in myself. I will defend him with my life, because you don’t understand the love, the joy, the protection, and the comfort that being with him has brought to my life. I’ve had one or two black people ask me in that negative I’m-not-looking-for-an-answer-but-a-fight kind of way “why are you with a white man?” It used to bother me, but now I’m just like…whatever. There were times where I got messed up with the expectations of others. We’re the beauty queens, new anchors, artists, intellects and business men and women, and we’re the crazy person in the street! So, I was taught that I could be anything. We’re the teachers and we’re the criminals. In Trinidad we (our people, our race) were the Presidents and Prime Ministers as well as the vagrant on the street. When I came to the US, there were some people in my high school who wanted to teach me to be a minority, but, because of Trinidad, I had a “majority complex” at least that’s what I call it. “I believe this goes back to us being from our island. On her marriage and love without limits or judgment During the anthem, you stand up and you SING.” We have these two worlds now, but hearing that takes me right back. The fact I hadn’t heard it in so long and I could sing it. During the Olympics when Keshorn won and they played our anthem, I started crying. In Brooklyn, you just need to find which block is your people. There’s fashion and food and the Lake…it is beautiful. “I love Chicago, it’s the perfect mix of NYC and LA. Here are Heather Headley’s words of wisdom – she is so smart, so genuine, and so cool and down to earth! This interview began before she left Chicago, and picked up as she continues to wow crowds in this role of a lifetime across the pond. Now her album is available in stores, online and on iTunes, and Heather is making big waves as Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard. I caught up with Heather right as she was preparing to leave for London to begin preparations for The Bodyguard, before her latest album Only One In The World was released. We clicked pretty much right away and it was an amazing interview. When I finally talked to Heather, conversation quickly turned from “I” and “me” to “us” and “we,” because we totally got where each other was coming from on so many levels. How uncanny is THAT?īecause we were featured in the same issue, Heather read my story too, and she was struck by our similarities. We both wound up falling for and marrying men that we met in college – and we’re both in interracial marriages, which is a topic I don’t discuss often, and neither does she. We’re both both black women who are proud to be from Trinidad. And then I read her cover story and was blown away by how many things we had in common. Before I read the article, I thought of us as very different people. Undeniably beautiful, talented beyond words, and an accomplished singer with her own albums and Broadway legacy. Before I read the May/June 2012 issue of Caribbean Beat (the official in flight magazine of Trinidad’s Caribbean Airlines), I thought of Heather Headley differently.
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