Emily West Releases Debut Album

The “America’s Got Talent” star has just released All For You, her debut album. She’s touring with the show all-stars, but will also open for Jay Leno and perform some solo dates.

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All For You features four original songs including “Bitter,” the first single. RollingStone.com raved that “’Bitter’…swells and soars thanks to West’s impassioned vocals. Heartbreak has never sounded quite this uplifting.” West wrote three other tracks on the album with K.S. Rhoads: “Battles” she notes “came from a quote that K.S. read by Ian Maclaren saying ‘Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle,’ so we wrote a song from three points of view.” “Glorianna” is “a song we wrote with high hopes that someone like Andrea Bocelli would sing it. Little did I know that when we were writing it, it’d go on my record! K.S. and I both cried when we were writing it. We couldn’t stop. The Angels were among us that day”

On “Fallin’,” West and Rhoads deliberately evoked “Billie Holiday and an old-school kind of song that dealt honestly about situations in life.” The song takes an unexpected tragic turn at the end, and is one of West’s favorite originals.  The album also includes several covers of major hits that fans of AGT will remember from her season on the show. West sang the 1959 pop hit “Sea of Love” at her first AGT audition. “I was cat sitting in New York, trying to figure out what songs to sing—and terrified,” she recalls, adding, “I tried to cut it like Patsy Cline might have, and make it my own and from a woman’s perspective.”

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David Guetta and Usher’s “Without You” comes from West’s generation of music, though she gave it more of a gospel interpretation: “It’s definitely a pop song, but when I focused on the lyrics, it became more like a worship song, expressing the need for a higher power—and I sing it like that instead of a relationship song.” For her second AGT audition, West performed Roy Orbison’s 1989 hit “You Got It.” Here she broke down” the lyrics by turning it into “a girl’s song—haunting like the Righteous Brothers, and ‘50s-sounding.”  Cyndi Lauper’s classic “True Colors” (duet with Cyndi) carries great personal meaning for West in that she grew up listening to her. “She’s my hero, and I try to teach all the little girls I know about her as an empowering woman and inspirational songwriter.”

Rounding out the album are two songs that West performed so memorably on AGT: “Nights in White Satin,” which is special because “it’s my parents’ love song” and “Chandelier,” a track she was initially unsure whether she could perform credibly, but ultimately made it her own.

Track listing:

1          Chandelier

2          Nights in White Satin

3          Bitter

4          Without You

5          Sea of Love

6          Glorianna

7          Battles

8          You Got It

9          True Colors

10        Fallen

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