Michael Ball FemaleFirst Exclusive Interview

12-11-2007 12:08

Michael Ball has many strings to his bow starting his career in theatre performing in productions such as Aspects of Love, Phantom on the Opera, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the original cast of Les Miserables.He is also a well known recording artist with Love Changes Everything, from Aspects of Love, being a big hit in the early 1990s.Since then he represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest and has had a string of very successful albums. But he is back in the theatre starring as Edna Turnblad in the West End production of Hairspray as well as releasing his new album Back to Bacharach last month.I caught up with Michael to talk music, theatre and dressing in women's clothes.

Your new album back to Bacharach has just been released why did you choose Bacharach music?

I’ve always been a fan of his, I’ve done the odd song here and there in different albums, when I was sitting down thinking about what I wanted this album to be it struck me, looking at all of his catalogue and he’s written hundreds of songs, would be really interesting and to see if we could find the twelve songs that would appeal to me the most and that we could do something with.