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}} ''Sing to the Moon'' is the debut studio album by English recording artist Laura Mvula. It was released on 1 March 2013 by RCA Victor. The album includes the singles "She" and "Green Garden". The album debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 18,954 copies.〔 〕 It was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize. On 11 August 2014, Laura released an orchestral version of the entire album 'Sing to the Moon' which she recorded at Abbey Road Studios accompanied by the Metropole Orkest.〔Daily Mail interview (retrieved 13 August 2014) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/musicvideo/11017140/Laura-Mvula-records-Sing-to-the-Moon-at-Abbey-Road-with-a-live-orchestra.html〕 ==Inspiration== Sing to the Moon (the inspiration behind the song): In 2013, Laura revealed during an interview for Blues and Soul magazine with the assistant editor Pete Lewis 〔Blues and Soul interview with Laura Mvula (retrieved 13 August 2014): http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/826/laura_mvula_reflections_of/〕 that the inspiration behind her song ''Sing to the Moon'' came from a biography of the American jazz singer Adelaide Hall titled Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall (written by Iain Cameron Williams).〔Underneath a Harlem Moon by Iain Cameron Williams, Bloomsbury publishing: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/underneath-a-harlem-moon-9780826458933/〕 Quote: Laura: “Well, the actual song ''Sing to the Moon'' came from a time when I was reading a book called 'Underneath a Harlem Moon', which is a biography of a jazz singer called Adelaide Hall, which is basically all about how she kind of was overlooked, or probably didn’t get the recognition she perhaps deserved. Plus it also talks about how she’d had a hard time growing up because her sister - who she was very close to - had died tragically of an illness... So anyway, there’s a point in the story where she describes her close relationship with her father… which I think kind of resonated with me, where she talks about the conversations she had with him and how he used to say to her randomly ‘Sing to the moon and the stars will shine’. Which kind of became her thing really that she just took with her everywhere. … And I don’t know why, but for some reason it just struck some kind of chord with me - you know, it was just something I seemed to connect with at that time. And so because of that, it then became a saying that I liked to use myself. So yeah, because it’s become something I personally like to express, I just thought ''Sing to the Moon'' would also make a good title for the album as a whole.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sing to the Moon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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