Amol Rajan sits in and chats to Mica Paris and Amy Macdonald

Mica Paris, one of the most respected British female soul singers, chats to Amol Rajan about her brand new album 'gospel'. This album is a passion project for Mica who has always wanted to record a gospel album. Mica was brought up on gospel music and sang in her south London church in Lewisham every weekend with her grandparents. Following the success of ‘Gospel According to Mica: The Story of Gospel Music in Six Songs’ on the BBC earlier this year Mica began recording the album with the Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir for Warner Music. The documentary saw Mica trace gospel’s journey through six songs from the American south all the way to 2019 when Stormzy performed Blinded By Your Grace Part II in his Glastonbury headline set. Since scoring her first Top 10 Hit in 1988 with ‘My One Temptation’ Mica has since gone onto release six more albums, published a book and became a popular media personality, from hosting her own Radio 2 soul show, a panelist on ITV’s Loose Women, to more recently - an addition to the cast of EastEnders where she is playing Ellie Nixon, grandmother to Phil and Denise’s adopted baby Raymond. Despite being a villainous character, Mica says she can relate to Ellie saying, “Ellie’s a formidable woman, whose past tragedy has made her stronger – that’s definitely something I can identify with.”

Amy Macdonald also chats to Amol about her new album 'The Human Demands'. Amy has had huge success as a singer-songwriter with four top five studio albums across Europe as well as two number ones in the UK and three in Germany. To date, for all four albums, Amy has been awarded platinum status 12 times with over 6 million sales. She has played to 4 million people worldwide, including over 1 million in the UK alone. Her debut album ’This Is The Life’ charted at number 1 in five markets around the globe including the UK and it was one of the top 20 best selling albums of the decade in Germany. The album was in the European charts for over a year.

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