London ¨C Most artists would find it intimidating to ask a musical icon like Elton John to duet with them ¡ª but that didn¡¯t seem to be the case for British-Japanese singer Rina Sawayama.
¡°I just asked him and he said yes!¡± Sawayama says via video chat from her London home. Of course, it helped that John had already been a vocal cheerleader of the singer and her 2020 debut album ¡°Sawayama,¡± a record that put the 30-year-old performer on the cusp of a major pop breakthrough.
Together, Sawayama and John reworked the album¡¯s penultimate track, ¡°Chosen Family,¡± an ode from Sawayama, who is pansexual, to her LGBTQ support network. Understandably, John had a deep appreciation for the sentiment.
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