Singer/actress Cynthia Erivo has used her time in lockdown to record the album she was hoping to make last year (19).The British star had a very busy 2019, promoting and earning multiple nominations for her film Harriet, in which she played former slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman, and filming HBO series The Outsider, and she couldn’t find the time to lay down tracks.
So when the coronavirus pandemic began, her record company bosses were quick to call. “When this first happened (COVID-19), I started recording,” she tells Deadline’s New Hollywood podcast. “My (record) label was like, ‘You’re at home, you’re not going anywhere which is great because you’re always going somewhere.