Zendaya

Essential Albums

  • The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

    With their work on the 2016 movie La La Land, songwriters Benji Pasek and Justin Paul breathed new life into a form verging on extinction: The non-animated, non-adaptation movie musical. Even compared to pop hybrids like Saturday Night Fever and Moulin Rouge!, the duo’s follow-up, the P.T. Barnum biopic The Greatest Showman, was an almost unprecedented success: A multi-platinum movie-musical soundtrack? That wasn’t just for kids? It helped the Pasek and Paul had good ingredients to work with: Though most people knew him as Wolverine, Showman star Hugh Jackman had begun his career in musicals, and had even won a Tony Award for The Boy From Oz. Co-stars Zac Efron and Zendaya, meanwhile, had their Disney bona fides, while Keala Settle spent nearly a decade on Broadway. And the music delivered an undiluted shot of positivity that bridged old-school showmanship with modern dance-pop and messages of self-acceptance (“This Is Me”) and perseverance (“Rewrite the Stars”) that had special resonance with the LGBTQ community. They’re still nowhere near Rodgers and Hart, nor Lerner and Loewe. But give Pasek and Paul some time—they’re off to a good start.

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About Zendaya

“All for Us” an electro-gospel duet between Zendaya and British singer/producer Labrinth, served as the soundtrack for a stunning sequence on Euphoria, the HBO series on which Zendaya plays a young drug addict. Eerie yet powerfully emotive, the Emmy-winning song shows what can happen when the two sides of the actress and singer’s career fuse into one. Zendaya —who was born Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman in Oakland, California in 1996—has been striving to fulfill her many creative drives ever since she took time out from her first Disney Channel series, Shake It Up, to create and self-release her debut single, “Swag It Out.” And while her star rose thanks to appearances on Dancing with the Stars and her sitcom K.C. Undercover, she made further strides as a musical performer on the sleek R&B and dance pop that filled her 2013 self-titled album and 2016’s edgier “Something New,” a collaboration with Chris Brown. Zendaya’s first chance to truly put it all together came with The Greatest Showman; the 2017 musical hit owed much of its success to both Zendaya’s poignant turn as a trapeze artist and her teaming with Zac Efron on “Rewrite the Stars,” a soaring ballad that was just as impactful as her darkly hued breakout for Euphoria.

FROM
Oakland, CA, United States
BORN
September 1, 1996
GENRE
Soundtrack

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