Tracee Ellis Ross discusses fulfilling a life-long dream of singing, gate-keeping in the music industry and what her mom, singer Diana Ross, thinks of her latest endeavor.
, available to stream on Apple TV on May 29, she plays a superstar singer named Grace Jones, who's facing career stagnancy. Meanwhile, Jones' personal assistant Maggie has musical ambitions of her own as an aspiring producer.
When I spoke with Ross the other day, she told me that at the beginning of the movie, Grace finds herself at a crossroads. Does she keep doing the same song-and-dance over and over or does she take a risk and produce an album with all new material?"First of all, it was so identifiable for me," Ross says.
NPR's Ailsa Chang spoke with Tracee Ellis Ross about fulfilling a life-long dream of singing, gate-keeping in the music industry and what her mom, singer Diana Ross, thinks of her latest endeavor. Listen in the audio player above and read on for highlights of the interview.What was really interesting to me about this story is how universally identifiable it is. I'm not, and most people are not, international icons.
And so I went back in. Then I remember when he first played me"Back To Me," and I said to Rodney,"No way. You promise me you didn't put any sauce on it?" He's like,"There's no sauce on this — I wouldn't have even had time to put sauce on it between you coming out of the booth and coming in here to hear it." Not only did it sound good and I was on key, it sounded like me! I realized I realized that my job was not to sound like anybody else.
Mallory Yu and Sarah Handel produced and edited the audio of this interview. Mano Sundaresan adapted it for the Web.
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