Cyrus Langhorne
[With an impressive Grammy Award and Academy Award for “Glory” now in his trophy case, Common tells SOHH where he sees his Hollywood career going and what impact the success has had on his music-making.]
I definitely would want to have an EGOT (Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony award). I definitely am looking, in my trajectory, I want to do Broadway and I definitely am doing a television project that I’m hoping will be that high quality enough to garner that type of attention.
I’m really enthused to write music now. I feel more free and more powerful than I ever have writing music. With that being said, some of my inspiration is to write music that’s going to, obviously, move the world and write music that may be accompanied with a film project, not even just a movie that’s produced.
Let’s say I write an album and we do a film based around that, I’m thinking about music in different ways. I’m not saying, “Okay, I’m just going to release an album.”
I might say, “I’m going to do these eight songs and they’re going to be accompanied by a short film and we write a book and then we put it on Broadway.”
Those are the things that keep on inspiring me.
Big ups to Common. He’s a poet and has some great albums under his belt (Resurrection, BE, and Finding Forever). I respect his aspirations howoever being validated through European awards is not the way to go for Black people. They say Selma got snubbed and instead of boycotting he says he wants more white awards. White America can’t be in the position to confirm or validate your talent unless you allow them to.
Totally agree, we as people can not let our dreams get stagnant because of What stereotypes people may have.
you forgot about “like water for chocolate”