Jennifer Hudson Calls On Dreamgirls Keys & Arie For Album Help.

06-05-2008 18:01

Jennifer Hudson Calls On Dreamgirls Keys & Arie For Album Help....

Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson has recruited India.Arie and Alicia Keys as mentors as she plans to embark on a pop career.The Oscar winner and former American Idol favourite hopes to release her first album after her new film Sex & The City hits cinemas next month (Jun08) and she has turned to two peers for advice.Hudson asked her Secret Life Of Bees co-star Keys for help when she realised she had been working on her debut for a year.

She says, "I didn't realise the process would be so long. I'm discovering it as I go along."Alicia Keys was one of the people who talked to me about it. I wanted to make sure it was OK because it's taking so long."She told me it took her at least a year to record her album and that's the process, so don't worry about it."And she turned to Arie when she needed a big hit on the album: "Greatest Creation, which Indie.Arie wrote, is where I see myself and where I'd like to see myself, in saying that my greatest creation is me."