Barbra Streisand’s newest album, The Secret Of Life: Companions, Quantity Two, is formally on its method.
The eight-time Grammy Award introduced her thirty seventh album Wednesday, and the file will characteristic a number of 11 duets with superstars together with Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Sting, Hozier, Sam Smith, Seal, Josh Groban, Tim McGraw, Laufey and Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande. The Secret Of Life: Companions, Quantity Two, too, arrives because the extremely anticipated follow-up to Streisand’s 2014 album Companions and it’ll formally launch June twenty seventh.
“I’ve all the time liked singing duets with gifted artists. They encourage me in distinctive and alternative ways…and make our time within the studio a pleasure,” Streisand mentioned in a press release. “My new album, The Secret Of Life: Companions, Quantity Two, gave me the possibility to work and play with a few of my outdated buddies, label mates, and new artists too. I like all of them… and I hope that you just’ll get pleasure from listening to our collaborations as a lot as I loved recording with all of my fantastic companions.”
The album’s first single, “The First Time Ever I Noticed Your Face,” launched Wednesday in collaboration with Hozier. Of the duet, Hozier mentioned “to be requested to affix her on a duet was an enormous honour and got here as a beautiful and welcome shock.”
“Barbra Streisand is likely one of the most enduring and iconic vocalists of our time, and someone who outlined an period with the sheer pressure of her voice, her expertise, charisma and imaginative and prescient,” he added in a press release. “Ewan MacColl’s ‘The First Time Ever I Noticed Your Face,’ made well-known by the beautiful Roberta Flack recording, has all the time mystified me. It’s, to me, probably the most stunning love songs ever written. Together with the honour I’ve to sing on this file with Barbra, I hope this duet provides one thing of a gesture to Roberta Flack’s unbelievable legacy.”
Walter Afanasieff and Peter Asher produced The Secret Of Life: Companions, Quantity Two whereas Streisand and Jay Landers government produced.
