Cabaret act
RUMER Willis plans to get personal with audiences during her upcoming Over The Love tour in the United States.
The 28-year-old Dancing With The Stars champ will cover some of her favourite female artistes, including Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Amy Winehouse, while sharing her own experiences through-out the cabaret-style show.
“I talk to the audience a lot before a lot of the songs. I tell stories about why I conn nect to the song,” Willis said during a recentt interview.
“But the overwhelming kind of throu ugh line is it’s just about love. ... The many trials and tribulations that we all face kind off in our search for love.”
The eldest daughter of Bruce Willis an nd Demi Moore said her music education s started young.
“My dad, from when we were really little ... introduced us to a lot of kind of differ rent, bluesy artistes. A lot of Etta James and Billie Holiday. Everything ranging from obviously The Beatles and Led Zeppelin and The Stones to just everything in between,” she said d.
“That was always kind of the music th hat I liked to listen to. I never necessarily wa as aware of what was on the pop charts.”
Willis made her Broadway debut last t year in Chicago. She has been perfecting herr cabaret act during a two-year residencyy at The Sayers Club in Los Angeles and a sh hort run at New York’s Cafe Carlyle last Apri il.
She’ll also try out some original mate erial during the 19-city tour, which kicked of ff Oct 12 in Denver.
“They definitely take a bit of the old- schools influences that I like, but still have enou ugh of a new flavour to, I think, be accessible tto a lot of people,” she said of her new songs s.
Willis has been working on her debut album with producer Linda Perry and plans to head back to the studio when the tour wraps. She also has two upcoming films: the musical Hello Again and the thriller Wh hat Lies Ahead.
“I’m at a place where I’m just open for whatever new opportunities are going to present themselves. You know I would love to maybe go back to Broadway at some point. I would like to dance more, singing, acting, all of it,” she said. “I am hungry for whatever is presented next.” – AP