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recording
new duets album for Warner Bros
produced
by Phil Ramone
featuring
Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis,
Olivia
Newton John, Bette Midler, John Barrowman and more
Elaine
Paige is currently in New York recording a new album for Warner
Bros Records that is being produced by the legendary Phil
Ramone. The album will include duets of Elaine singing
with the likes of Paul Anka, John Barrowman, Michael Bolton,
Kenny G, Olivia Newton John, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis,
Billy Ocean , Lee Ann Rimes, Jon Secada, Neil Sedaka and Dionne
Warwick. The album is scheduled for UK release in November.
"I
am very excited by this project," Elaine said, "I
have been waiting for this opportunity for 20 years to work
with Phil - he's a true magician in the recording studio.
And being able to sing with some of my idols, people I have
admired for years, is an absolute pleasure, a dream come true!"
As
an actress, recording artist, producer and broadcaster, Elaine
Paige has made a major contribution to the modern musical
genre. She first came to fame when she created her award
winning performance as Eva Peron in Evita in 1978. Shortly
afterwards she originated the role of Grizabella in the original
production of Cats and the classic song Memory became the
first of Elaine's many hit records. Her subsequent theatre
productions included Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease,
Billy, Anything Goes, Piaf, Sunset Boulevard in London and
Broadway, The King and I, Sweeney Todd and Chess (with her
record breaking Number One hit I Know Him So Well). She returned
to the West End stage in 2007 in the title role of The Drowsy
Chaperone.
Elaine
has recorded 20 solo albums (four multi Platinum and eight
consecutive Gold) and six cast albums. In 2006 she released
an album of songs from the stage entitled Essential Musicals.
Elaine
presents her own show, Elaine Paige On Sunday, on
BBC Radio 2 every Sunday.
www.elainepaige.com
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Elaine
onstage in concert and as Mrs Lovett in the New York City
Opera production of Sweeney Todd
Elaine in
'Sunset Boulevard', 'Cats' and 'Evita'
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