What higher particular person to star in and information a biopic on Keyshia Cole than the R&B artist herself.
That’s the way it’s enjoying out for Keyshia Cole: This Is My Story, an upcoming biopic on the Grammy Award-nominated artist, set to premiere June 24 on Lifetime.
Cole takes government producer duties and makes her performing debut within the movie, a part of the channel’s celebration of Black Music Month.
However first, the official trailer which Billboard solely premieres right now (June 2). In it, Cole explains, “as a younger lady, I survived so many alternative conditions.” She continues, “I at all times needed to make a film about my life.”
Helming the biopic is D’Angela Proctor (Line Sisters) and Manu Boyer (Lady within the Basement), whereas Cole’s musical collaborator and A&R Ron Truthful supervised the music and Grammy winner Warryn Campbell composed the unique rating.
In accordance with a press release, the dramatization traces Cole’s “early days in Oakland honing her musical skills to her rise to a multi-platinum promoting recording artist and tv character, to her sophisticated but warmhearted relationship” together with her mother Frankie Lons, performed by Debbi Morgan.
The movie may also function a brand new tune recorded by Cole.
“It is a story of a daughter’s love for her mom and though my coronary heart stays damaged from her premature passing I’m honored to be sharing it with the world,” she explains in a press release. “Taking part in the function of myself was a novel alternative to re-live particular moments in my life that additionally gave me the prospect to course of her loss in methods I didn’t count on. I miss her day-after-day and despite the fact that she just isn’t right here, her presence was felt all through this movie. Mother, I like you.”
Keyshia Cole: That is My Story is produced for Lifetime by Swirl Movies and Large Desires.
Watch the trailer beneath.
