There she is! I’ve been wondering when we’d be hearing from Paris Bennett again. She was so young on ‘American Idol’ but she sure seems to have grown up over the past year. TeenMusic.com caught up with Paris while she was in town for the Billboard awards.
Paris has some big plans coming up for 2007. Paris’ debut album, “Princess P”, will be out early next year and her first single, “Dreamin’” will be out in the next few weeks. In addition to an upcoming promotional tour, Paris is getting ready to shoot the video as well.
“We haven’t done a video yet but we’re getting ready. Basically, it’s about my “American Idol” experience, my life before and life after. I’m co-writing it. This being my first album, I’m co-writing with Ray Issac, a new guy. I have a producer doing writing with me.”
Paris always seemed a bit out of place on ‘American Idol’ to me. It’s not every day you hear a 17-year old, itty bitty thing belting out “deep, deep jazz.” Her answer to who she was listening to as a teen explains a lot:
“Gladys Knight, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Holiday, Etta James. I’m a little person with an old soul so I go way back, Aretha Franklin.”
She would also love to do a duet with Al Jarreau - as she did on the AI finale - and have the duet “We’re In This Love Together” on her album. I second that - their duet was the best of the night.
So what is Santa bringing Princess P this year?
“For Christmas, I’ll be on the Disney cruise. Me and Bianca Ryan are performing on the cruise and my family is going to come and join me on the cruise. Disney has their own island. We’re going to go to St. Lucia and it is fabulous. I only have to sing one day on the cruise so I’m going to get some rest and chill out.”
December 5th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Wow! Does Paris have a label deal? That’s great!