Sing to the Moon
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| Studio album by Laura Mvula | ||||
| Released | 1 March 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2011–2012 | |||
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| Length | 49:36 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Steve Brown | |||
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| Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley at Abbey Road Studios | |
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| Studio album | |
| Released | June 23, 2014 (digital download) August 11, 2014 (CD) August 18, 2014 (LP) |
| Recorded | 2014 |
| Studio | Abbey Road Studios |
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| Label | RCA |
| Producer | Metropole Orchestra |
Sing to the Moon is the debut studio album by English recording artist Laura Mvula. It was released on 1 March 2013 by RCA Victor. The album includes the singles "She" and "Green Garden". The album debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart. It was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize.
On 11 August 2014, Laura released an orchestral version of the entire album 'Sing to the Moon' which she recorded at Abbey Road Studios accompanied by the Metropole Orkest.
Sing to the Moon (the inspiration behind the song): In 2013, during an interview with Blues and Soul magazine, Laura revealed that the inspiration behind her song Sing to the Moon came from a biography of the American jazz singer Adelaide Hall titled Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall (written by Iain Cameron Williams).
Quote: Laura: "Well, the actual song Sing to the Moon came from a time when I was reading a book called 'Underneath a Harlem Moon', which is a biography of a jazz singer called Adelaide Hall, which is basically all about how she kind of was overlooked, or probably didn’t get the recognition she perhaps deserved. Plus it also talks about how she’d had a hard time growing up because her sister - who she was very close to - had died tragically of an illness... So anyway, there's a point in the story where she describes her close relationship with her father… which I think kind of resonated with me, where she talks about the conversations she had with him and how he used to say to her randomly 'Sing to the moon and the stars will shine'. Which kind of became her thing really that she just took with her everywhere. … And I don't know why, but for some reason it just struck some kind of chord with me - you know, it was just something I seemed to connect with at that time. And so because of that, it then became a saying that I liked to use myself. So yeah, because it's become something I personally like to express, I just thought Sing to the Moon would also make a good title for the album as a whole."
Several of the album's singles were released before the album came out in March 2013. "She" was released as the lead single from the album on 29 October 2012. It was released both as a standalone single and as part of the She EP which contained three other songs ("Like the Morning Dew", "Can't Live with the World" and "Jump Right Out"). "She" was re-released on 16 August 2013 as an EP containing a new "2013 Edit" of the song and five other remixes.
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