I had read an article which said if you know what it is that you want to do, you can take the steps to make that happen. “It wasn’t a career move,” she reflects upon the timing of the decision. I just heard good music and that was what I was attracted to.”Īfter years of acting in various movies and TV shows, in 2012 Wilson brought out her first album but it was just before that, that Wilson went soul searching and found that music was the only thing missing in her life. I didn’t know growing up that there were these things called genres. So I had great exposure to groups like, the Beatles, The Beach Boys, the Temptations, Diana Ross, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Bobbie Gentry. So you would be hearing anything from country to r&b to soul to rock. One of the things that I believe made a difference in my musical tastes, was that AM radio in the day, there were maybe four channels, but so many of those channels had a variety of genres on them. “We mostly listened to the radio, AM radio. Wilson vividly remembers the music that filled the house when she was a child growing up. With the release of her latest album ‘Rita Wilson Now & Forever: Duets’ Wilson revisits some of the songs that made her fall in love with music and whilst she’s in a reflective mood she talks me through her musical journey up until this point. However, in 2012 a spot of soul searching led to Wilson discovering a talent for music and she began to release a number of records. As a producer, her biggest success came from the movie franchise Mamma Mia. Rita Wilson is best known as an actress and producer who’s film credits include the likes of romantic comedy ‘Runaway Bride’ and family christmas favourite ‘Jingle All The Way’ as well as TV shows, ‘The Good Wife’ and ‘Girls’.
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