Barbra Streisand has duetted with Bob Dylan, Sir Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey and extra on a starry new album.
Barbra Streisand has launched a canopy of ‘The First Time Ever I Noticed Your Face’ that includes Hozier
The music legend and Hollywood star – whose hits embrace ‘The Method We Had been’, ‘Responsible’, ‘Papa, Can You Hear Me’ and ‘Evergreen’ – has unveiled her new LP ‘The Secret Of Life: Companions, Quantity Two’, which is due for launch on June 27, 2025, and options music’s largest stars.
It is going to act as a follow-up to 2014’s ‘Companions’ album.
Powerhouses Streisand, Ariana and Mariah type a supergroup on ‘One Coronary heart, One Voice’.
Streisand additionally groups up with James Taylor, Sting, Hozier, Sam Smith, Seal and Josh Groban, plus Tim McGraw, and Laufey on the 11-track assortment.
The primary observe to be launched is ‘The First Time Ever I Noticed Your Face’ with ‘Too Candy’ hitmaker Hozier.
The 1957 folks tune was initially penned by Ewan MacColl and made well-known by the late Roberta Flack.
Hozier stated: “Barbra Streisand is without doubt one of the most enduring and iconic vocalists of our time, and anyone who outlined an period with the sheer drive of her voice, her expertise, charisma and imaginative and prescient. To be requested to hitch her on a duet was an enormous honour and got here as an exquisite and welcome shock. 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, one of the vital stunning love songs ever written. Like so many, I used to be deeply saddened to listen to of her current passing. Together with the honour I’ve to sing on this report with Barbra, I hope this duet gives one thing of a gesture to Roberta Flack’s unimaginable legacy.”
Streisand commented: “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! My new album, The Secret Of Life: Companions, Quantity Two, gave me the possibility to work and play with a few of my outdated associates, label mates, and new artists too. I like all of them… and I hope that you just’ll take pleasure in listening to our collaborations as a lot as I loved recording with all of my great companions.”
With Beatles legend McCartney, Streisand covers his 2012 solo tune ‘My Valentine’ and Dylan seems on ‘The Very Thought Of You’, the jazz commonplace coated by the likes of Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Billie Vacation, and Tony Bennett.
Streisand and her particular company are accompanied by orchestrations by William Ross and David Campbell, recorded at The Streisand Scoring Stage in Culver Metropolis, California and with the venerable London Symphony Orchestra at London’s Abbey Street Studios.
The ‘A Star Is Born’ star has beforehand recorded duets with Neil Diamond, Barry Gibb, Kris Kristofferson, Donna Summer time, Bryan Adams, and Celine Dion.
The Secret Of Life: Companions, Quantity Two tracklisting:
1. THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE with Hozier
2. MY VALENTINE with Paul McCartney
3. TO LOSE YOU AGAIN with Sam Smith
4. THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU with Bob Dylan
5. LETTER TO MY 13 YEAR OLD SELF with Laufey
6. ONE HEART, ONE VOICE with Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande
7. I LOVE US with Tim McGraw
8. SECRET O’ LIFE with James Taylor
9. FRAGILE with Sting
10. WHERE DO I GO FROM YOU? with Josh Groban
11. LOVE WILL SURVIVE with Seal
