“I was in Marvin Gaye’s studio and I used a lot of [his] equipment. So I hope that the ambience will reflect in the record and just having that spirit, and just having my heart poured out into this album,” says Stone. The 30-year music vet says she isn’t new to the acting game, and really surrendered to her creativity in Pastor Brown, starring Dunbar, Nicole Ari Parker, Indie.Arie, Monica, Tisha Campbell and track legend Carl Lewis.
“It’s not really a hard transition. Acting is something that I actually did first before I started singing. I was in school plays and things like that then I was in theater, now films,” she said at the A.C.T.S.4Life’s “Hollywood South” event in Atlanta recently. “It’s exciting and it’s a transition that is so necessary for me right now because I have put 30 years in the music industry and it’s welcome a change. The transition has been wonderful. It’s challenging. It’s exciting. It’s like having a brand-new career.”
While she can’t give away too much, she said the film is poignant story of forgiveness, healing and redemption. “I don’t want to give too much of the film away. But just saying that I’m a strip club owner tells you a little bit about how my character is.”
And it contains a little bit of Stone in it: edgy, dynamic and unforgettable.
–terry shropshire
