But “You’re the One” and “Omar” are not her only recent projects. In the interview, Giddens alluded to having a new album in the bag but said she wasn’t yet ready to let the cat out of it. That one is probably … that’s my lifetime opera, I think. In a recent interview with Variety, Giddens laughed when she was asked if she had any more operas in the planning.
It tells the story of Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved Muslim man in Charleston, SC in the 19th century, based on his memoir. Giddens’ Pulitzer came for “Omar,” a collaboration with composer Michael Abels, known for scoring “Get Out” and “Nope.” It was acclaimed in a run at the LA Opera that wrapped up in late 2022 a production will be mounted by the San Francisco Opera this fall. “I held his little cheek up to my face, and was just reminded, ‘Oh my God, my children - they have every bit of my heart.'” “Your life has changed forever, and you don’t know it until you’re in the middle of it and it hits you,” Giddens said. She said in the announcement that its inspiration goes back an emotional moment she shared with her then-infant son 10 years ago. While Giddens’ album is still three months away, the singer released the title track as a single Thursday. The forthcoming record has just one featured guest, Jason Isbell, on “Yet to Be,” described as being about a Black woman and Irish man falling in love in America. If they’re introduced to me through this record, they might go listen to other music I’ve made and make some new discoveries.” They’re fun songs, and I wanted them to have as much of a chance as they could to reach people who might dig them but don’t know anything about what I do. “Blues, jazz, Cajun, country, gospel, and rock - it’s all there. “I hope that people just hear American music,” Giddens said in her announcement. “You’re the One” looks to lean at least a bit more in a contemporary pop/Americana direction than the recordings she has put out with Turrisi, which have skewed more toward folk and global influences.
Their most recent collaboration, “They’re Calling Me Home,” won the Grammy for best folk album in 2022. Although “You’re the One” is Giddens’ first solo album since “Freedom Highway” in 2017, she has hardly been absent from the recording scene since then, having released albums in the interim with her personal and professional partner, Francesco Turrisi.
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