Cyrus Langhorne
[With Fox's "Empire" show an overnight hit, R&B veteran Estelle tells SOHH she's gearing up to appear in an upcoming episode and revealed her character's role.]
My song “Conqueror” is going to be featured on “Empire.” I actually sing it as a duet with the main character Jamal, who is Jussie Smollett and a really good friend of mine, it was awesome and it was a good time.
What I love about the show is it’s relevant. When they write the episodes and they write the periods, everything they’re doing is real. It’s like, “That’s real! That’s true!” Whoever they’re consulting with is pretty spot-on.
They’re spot-on because the records are true. The record “Conqueror” was true to Jussie’s character and what he had to go through in that period. It’s relevant to every one of those characters on the set.
I think when you think about “Conqueror” you think of making something out of nothing but you know even Oprah [Winfrey] has her lows as much as a homeless guy has his lows.
To me, it’s all perspective. That record being featured on “Empire” was spot-on time.
It would be awesome to be on there fulltime. Either way, there will be more TV, more voice acting, all of that stuff. I think it’s something I love to do now.
It’s a different feeling and a bit of a different challenge than recording albums and doing promotion.
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