Where is my emir now? From fame “1 thing” to the published author

Twenty years later, Emiri She is still known for her solo spin “1 thing” – but she has never stopped making music, and now she adds a new achievement to her autobiography: the author of literary imagination.

The singer, 45, will publish her first novel for adults, This is not a ghost storyOn Tuesday, June 10. This may be a surprise for the masses who only know it for R&b Bops, but Airie is a long -standing and supportive reader. Years before Booktok could make or break the author’s profession, she operated her own book on YouTube Book Vlog, and established a book club in 2019. Because you love to hate meIt was published in 2017 and shown one of her short stories.

“I would always write an adult imagination,” I told my prince exclusively US weekly Before release the book, adding that it works on the novel outside and about 11 years. “I wrote this, but it was necessary to be placed in a drawer. It was not completely complete yet. Sometimes I find it difficult to review something you wrote while married, instead of starting completely from scratch … This is one, it was very close to my heart.”

The novel tells the story of John, a dead black man who is thrown to his calm life in chaos when he suddenly crosses to Los Angeles in the modern era and becomes immediate celebrities as the first real ghost in the world. While looking for a back to the hereafter, a series of hangers-some of which are useful, and others are less than that-who sometimes have hidden motives for locking in a spirit.

Emiri told we From the unique hypothesis of the book. “This was the matter. After that, everything else – the topic and explore the family culture that was found, but also the ability to see himself from inside and from the outside – those are all all the things that came, but I didn’t know anything when I was going. It was just one topic.”

The result is a completely convincing reading Fantasy elements Medicated from contemporary celebrities worship, with a well -groaned political comments. This helped that my command, after she released her first album in 2002, has a lot of experience in realistic life in the entertainment industry to benefit from when she created characters like Hana, a meaningless advertisement aimed at making John a star, or Persiphon, the ambitious actress who has feelings of confusion about John’s dating to push her career.

“I felt that this would really happen if he came to Los Angeles,” she explained. “It will not take a long time before being monitored by someone who can do something with this, who can make something of this … It was fun for me. I managed to rely on my experience, and work with my advertising, just work to know how to entertain public works.”

While Airie is finally pleased to the book’s book in the hands of readers, it is not the only project that it was cooking recently. It was too Work on a new albumAnd that you expect to appear later this summer or in the beginning of the fall. The first song, “Mine”, was dropped in March.

“I just feel creative and I want to make sure I am able to get everything,” she said. “This record is called” Li “, in line with the project, which is formed to be a very romantic thing. This is a big problem for me. I really wanted romance. I was like,” give me all romance, lustful, but optimism. “I want to optimize love.

She is also busy with her 7 -year -old son, the river, who shares her with the husband Lenny Nicholson – I found time to make a file A surprise appears in Kochilla In April with Money LongWhere she conducted a “one thing” for thousands of fans happiness.

Even when she branches and overcomes a new floor, Amiri still has a love for the path that made her a familiar name two decades ago.

“I never tired of performing it, which is very important,” I told we. “It’s exciting. It is always new to me.”

It always feels that it is good to be reminded that her fans are still swinging with her.

“As an artist, this makes you really feel satisfied, to know that you can still communicate with people and are still calling the things you have done in the past,” she explained. ((I) I just appreciate it. I think people assume that artists do not feel anything about it. People may feel that we are only used to that or we do not have any associated emotions, but they do not realize that artists often do not know anyone in anything that anyone care about every time. You made with this person. “

This is not a ghost story He is outside Tuesday, June 10.