Claire Richards was “so nervous” to work with Celine Dion.
The 46-year-old pop star – who’s greatest often known as a member of Steps – supported the ‘My Coronary heart Will Go On’ songstress at her BST Hyde Park Present in 2019 and admitted that while she “so excited” to be working with one in every of her idols, she in all probability would have backed out final minute if she had the prospect.
Talking on ‘The Katie Piper Breakfast Present’, she stated: “When she did her tour, I went to see her on the O2 and he or she did like a 20-minute monologue about sticky toffee pudding and fish and chips simply chatting away. I knew I used to be going to be doing the present and I stated I used to be going to current her with a sticky toffee pudding, however I did not. It was wonderful, she’s one in every of my idols. I used to be so excited, however I used to be so nervous. If somebody had stated to be at any level on the lead-up to that present ‘Have you learnt what, you do not have to do it, you’ll be able to simply go’, I’d have simply obtained in a cab and left. I used to be so nervous!”
Claire has coated Celine Dion monitor ‘I Give up’ as a part of her new solo album ‘Euphoria’ – a covers assortment impressed by the likes of Karen Carpenter, Donna Summer season, and Barbra Streisand – and went on to confess that while she typically has extra “confidence” in her Steps information, she has a “actually good feeling” about this file.
She stated: “It is at all times nerve-wracking releasing any music, even with Steps as a result of even in spite of everything these years you simply do not know what will occur however with Steps there’s just a little bit extra confidence as a result of we have got such a tremendous fanbase, They’re so loyal. It is all on me now although, I can not share the burden with anybody! However that is why we do have these little breaks so we will go off and do fine details on our personal so after we do come again it feels refreshed and we have got one thing to speak about. It is nice, and I am actually enthusiastic about it. It feels good this one.
The previous ‘Masked Singer’ star achieved a run of hit singles like ‘Tragedy’ and ‘Deeper Shade of Blue’ with Faye Tozer, Lee Latchford-Evans, Lisa Scott-Lee and Ian ‘H’ Watkins within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s however the band obtained again collectively in 2017 and have loved additional success with 4 new albums and a string of sellout area excursions.
Claire added: “Typically it does [feel that long], and generally it would not. I have been in Steps longer than I have not been. It is greater than half my life.
“Once we get collectively we’re nonetheless these fool 20-year-olds that we had been within the ’90s, we have got the identical jokes and the identical foolish sayings. However I at all times know I’ll be OK. You sort of fear about doing new issues however we all know one another so properly that it’s fairly straightforward to only slip into it actually shortly.”
