Annie Lennox's forthcoming seventh studio album, Nostalgia, will feature covers of I Put A Spell On You and Strange Fruit.
On her forthcoming seventh studio album, Nostalgia, Annie Lennox sings revered classics such as I Put a Spell on You, popularised by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Strange Fruit, which is forever associated with Billie Holiday.
The track listing comprises jazz standards composed by artists such as Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin.
“I was rehearsing with Herbie Hancock’s band in America and they are consummate jazz musicians,” Lennox told Digital Spy, referring to her new musical direction.
“We were having fun noodling around and I started singing with them. I realised, ‘Oh my God. I’ve never really been into jazz, but I think I’ve got the kind of voice that could do it’.
"It had never occurred to me in my younger incarnations that I would ever do anything with that genre, because it wasn’t really my thing.”
Watch highlights from a recent event in LA for Nostalgia below.
