It’s just one layer deeper than maybe a male director would or could.” “It’s very powerful. I find that when I work with women directors, I really relate to it. “As a woman, there’s just a sensibility when you work with a female director that I find connects, it just connects beautifully,” she said. Rockwell, and the energy she felt from that collaboration was reflected in “Katwe.”
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At last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Keys debuted a sneak peek at a series of short films she crafted with up-and-coming female filmmaker A.V. The singer and songwriter was further inspired by working with Nair, as Keys relishes working with female directors.
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“I definitely can relate to that and understand that, and I wanted to figure out how to create something that felt like the way the film felt, which is very uplifting and honest.” “With ‘Katwe,’ it’s so much about womanhood and girlhood and the challenges that come with being a woman and a girl,” the singer said. “I always take a very personal approach for anything that I write, just because I like that leads me to the most emotional place I can go,” Keys said.įor Nair’s film, that involved tapping into not just deep emotions, but her very identity. The result is a classic Keys joint, a slow-building, piano-heavy song with an inspirational and uplifting message. Keys wrote “Back to Life” alongside her producers Illangelo and Billy Walsh (longtime collaborators of The Weeknd who also produced “In Common” from Keys’ most recent album, “Here”). “You can’t go and see that film and not be moved, and I was moved,” she said. I loved the triumph of it and the honesty and the way that they captured Africa and Uganda. “I loved it, I loved it so much,” Keys said.
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