Thursday, September 23, 2004
Yikes! Another actor turned singer!
Robert Downey Jr. to release album
NEW YORK (AP) -- Robert Downey Jr. is moving from the big screen to the music scene.
The Gothika and Chaplin star has signed an exclusive recording contract with the Sony Classical label.
"Robert is a brilliantly gifted songwriter who writes lyrics that are wise and moving," Sony Classical president Peter Gelb said Wednesday in a statement. "His burnished, smoky voice is an expressive and touching medium for the songs that he has written."
Downey's debut CD, not yet titled, will include two covers -- Smile by Charlie Chaplin and Your Move by Yes -- and eight pop ballads written, sung and played on the piano by the actor. It will be released on Nov. 23.
Downey, 39, has written songs for three of his films (Too Much Sun, Two Girls and a Guy and Friends & Lovers) and sang during his 2000 stint on the TV show, Ally McBeal.
He was an Oscar nominee for 1992's Chaplin.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Robert Downey Jr. is moving from the big screen to the music scene.
The Gothika and Chaplin star has signed an exclusive recording contract with the Sony Classical label.
"Robert is a brilliantly gifted songwriter who writes lyrics that are wise and moving," Sony Classical president Peter Gelb said Wednesday in a statement. "His burnished, smoky voice is an expressive and touching medium for the songs that he has written."
Downey's debut CD, not yet titled, will include two covers -- Smile by Charlie Chaplin and Your Move by Yes -- and eight pop ballads written, sung and played on the piano by the actor. It will be released on Nov. 23.
Downey, 39, has written songs for three of his films (Too Much Sun, Two Girls and a Guy and Friends & Lovers) and sang during his 2000 stint on the TV show, Ally McBeal.
He was an Oscar nominee for 1992's Chaplin.
# posted by sonicmoremusic : 8:22 AM
