Singer-songwriter Molly Jenson on showing up as your real self, especially after heartbreak. So much about being a professional artist is showing up. Again and again and again and again. Even when it hurts. It also requires a transmutation of rejection, seeing it in a new skin. What a professional artist knows is that rejection […]
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Oscar-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez on finding their dreams and what’s even better than winning an Oscar. Today I saw the movie CoCo for the first time (spoiler alert: I cried 17 times). Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez wrote the Golden-Globe and Oscar-nominated title song, “Remember Me,” for the Disney Pixar film, and I couldn’t help but smile as I watched the Golden Globes recently and caught a glimpse of them sitting in their finest at a round table with other artists I love (like the director and writer of Frozen. A few months ago I sat at a square table on my porch in San Diego, California, phone in hand, about to call Kristen and Bobby.
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Musician Will Wells on following your obsessions and investing in your craft (Part 2 of 2) We meet outside the Richard Rogers Theater, where Hamilton: An American Musical, a project Will worked on not too long ago, is currently playing to sold out crowds (and a few months later wins 11 Tony’s). Will just finished saying hello to his old friends backstage; he is based in LA. We were originally supposed to do this interview on the phone, but somehow, we both ended up in New York City in the same week. After a whirlwind backstage at the Richard Rogers we set off to the recording studio.
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Going behind-the-scenes of Hamilton with musician Will Wells (Part 1 of 2)I can’t believe what just happened. I’m crying on an airplane, face pressed against the glass of the window after 24 hours in New York City for my 29th birthday. I’m half hoping the guy next to me can’t see me crying, and half feeling like “It’s my birthday and I’ll cry if I want to!”
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