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It\u2019s been said the sins of the father are cast upon the son, but in the case of singer\/ songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins, the songs of the son are cast upon the mother.<\/p>\n
How so?<\/p>\n
Well, Hawkins is currently working on \u201cWinter\u2019s Dead,\u201d a musical with her manager and life partner Gigi Gaston as well as actress Kristen Chenoweth and Broadway legend Thomas Meehan (\u201cAnnie,\u201d \u201cThe Producers\u201d and \u201cHairspray\u201d).<\/p>\n
According to Hawkins, who is performing May 19 at Anthology, one day, when she was working on a song for one of the characters \u2013 a French man \u2013 she overhead her 17-month-old son Dashiell singing on the stairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lyrics were just \u2018Yeah yeah, wo wo wo,\u201d but the melody was so simple and beautiful and creative that I just had to steal it from him,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s OK, because he\u2019ll eventually get all the royalties,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Although Hawkins believes Dashiell\u2019s ditty could be \u201cthe greatest hit song ever,\u201d her version won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could be a huge pop hit, but I didn\u2019t do it that way, because I wasn\u2019t writing a pop song, I was writing a musical.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hawkins, who is best known for her 1990s hits, \u201cDamn! I Wish I Was Your Lover,\u201d and \u201cAs I Lay Me Down,\u201d admits that writing a musical is daunting and freeing at the same time because the format requires her to write from the standpoint of another character \u2013 something unusual for this very personal artist.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting in character is harder for me, but, then again, the songs invent the character,\u201d she said. \u201cThe songs tell the inner life so my collaborators might say, \u2018We need a slightly humorous, upbeat song here,\u2019 it\u2019s my job to figure out their inner life and help them have more depth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Writing a musical and dealing with motherhood aren\u2019t the only new things in Hawkins\u2019 life: so is multi-tasking. <\/p>\n
In between the musical, dealing with son Dashiell and concert appearances, Hawkins is also finishing up \u201cDream Street And Chance,\u201d her first album in four years. It\u2019s requiring her to stretch her brain in different directions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate multi-tasking, but I am getting used to it,\u201d she laughed. \u201cStill, I don\u2019t understand why all new moms don\u2019t have nannies. It\u2019s great to get away from being a mother and be an artist. I get to do that between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. I\u2019m lucky that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
No word on when \u201cDream Street And Chance\u201d will be released, but she is releasing a new single, \u201cThe Land, The Sea And The Sky\u201d on iTunes, with all proceed going to the Waterkeeper Alliance, a charity working to clean up the Gulf Oil spill.<\/p>\n
There will also be single CDs available for $3 at the Anthology show, with all proceeds of CD sales and part of ticket sales also going to the gulf coast waterkeepers.<\/p>\n
By David Moye<\/cite><\/p>\n \u2013<\/p>\n WHAT: Sophie B. Hawkins<\/strong> It\u2019s been said the sins of the father are cast upon the son, but in the case of singer\/ songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins, the songs of the son are cast upon the mother. How so? Well, Hawkins is currently working on \u201cWinter\u2019s Dead,\u201d a musical with her manager and life partner Gigi Gaston as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[893,17],"tags":[693,742,744,743],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-past-shows","tag-david-moye","tag-sophie-b-hawkins","tag-sophie-b-hawkins-concert","tag-sophie-b-hawkins-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWHEN: Wednesday, May 15th, 2010, 7:30pm<\/strong>
\nTICKETS: $10 – $44 BUY TICKETS<\/a><\/strong>
\nMORE INFO: Artist Profile<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"