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Lady Gaga "I'm planning to release one jazz album a year"
On her way to dinner in Dubai last week, Lady Gaga asked her driver to pull over for better phone reception to answer questions about "Cheek to Cheek," her new duet album with Tony Bennett. Taking a break from her "artRave: The ARTPOP Ball" tour, Lady Gaga, 28, views the duet project as personal redemption after wearying of the pop-music business. She spoke openly about how Mr. Bennett helped her rediscover herself and why jazz is so important. Edited from an interview:
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Q: How did Tony Bennett help you on your new duet album, "Cheek to Cheek?"
A: Tony encouraged me to let my sadness come through in my voice. When I started singing with him, I was going through a very hard time, emotionally. I was so down that when I'd sing, I'd begin to cry. You can't sing that way. It chokes you up. Tony taught me how to just breathe. You can still cry while you're singing, but you maintain your breath control and you're able to soar through it.
I was sobbing during my solo recording of Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," but I was able to sing it because Tony said, "You can do this, you've got this." When I was 14 in high school, my teacher gave it to me to sing because he thought I had the right vocal range. But I didn't understand what the lyrics meant. So I looked up Billy Strayhorn and then became obsessed with Duke Ellington. Now I know exactly what the song is about. I know the lonely women he wrote about in the song. I'm one of those women.
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Q: Why were you so down?
A: The pop industry is like a tabloid now. There's just no integrity and it's extremely controlled and manufactured. There's a lot of farce and not a lot of authenticity. ... I was kind of damaged and faced all these challenges behind the scenes with people betraying me, and things like that. I became dissatisfied with the business. I'm so much more satisfied with music now. I said to myself, "I don't need to be a commercial singer anymore. I can just sing at a bar downtown and I'd be so much happier."
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Q: Some may think your interest in jazz is just a fling, that it's just a phase. True?
A: Not at all. I'm planning to release one jazz album a year. I think I will continue to do that forever. I enjoy it so much. I want to spread it to all of my fans.
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