| R&B singer and actress Heather Headley has already begun work on her
second album, the follow-up to the gold-certified CD, This Is Who I Am.
But preparations for her sophomore set were interrupted by the two-time
Soul Train Lady Of Soul Award winner's recent honeymoon. Headley married
former New York Jet Brian Musso on September 6th at Musso's home outside
of Chicago.
Recently Headley talked about preparing to work on a second CD project
with RCA executive Clive Davis and compared it to having a second child:
"We're gonna start working on a second album, Mr. Clive Davis wants to
start working on it. So we're gonna start doing that. I don't know, for
me, it's like telling a woman who just had a baby, 'Let's get pregnant
again!' And so I'm like, oooooh, you know? But I'm excited about the
second child. This one is up and starting to walk, so it's time to get
the second baby out."
Trinidadian-born Headley added that the one constant in her life and
career is her faith in God, and that she never goes anywhere or does
anything without prayer: "In my life, I just try to do my best to have a
closer relationship with God, my aim is that if He directs me in
everything, everything will be fine. Before I sing, I talk to Him;
before we get a song, I talk to Him; before I get dressed, I talk to
Him. You know, I pray for everybody in the camp, everybody's been prayed
for, every musician, every person I run into's been prayed for, and I
just ask Him to guide me through. I don't ever want to go anywhere
without Him."
Headley's first CD included two Number One R&B singles: "He Is" and "I
Wish I Wasn't."
Headley -- who won a 1998 Tony Award playing the title role in Elton
John and Tim Rice's musical Aida -- is scheduled to appear in two films
next year: Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, the Cuban-set sequel to Dirty
Dancing, and The Breakup Handbook, a comedy starring Morris Chestnut and
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