candidly discussed her abortive pop career and the 'fearless unwavering confidence' that prompted her to try to be a singer.
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Priyanka Chopra Reflects on Her Failed Pop Career
Priyanka Chopra candidly discussed her abortive pop career and the 'fearless unwavering confidence' that prompted her to try to be a singer.After being crowned ...
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After being crowned Miss World 2000, she became a movie star in Bollywood musicals, where playback singers perform the songs for the lip-syncing actors.
In the early 2010s she attempted a foray into music that peaked with the songs In My City featuring will.i.am in 2012 and Exotic featuring Pitbull in 2013.
Although In My City was a hit in her native , Exotic failed to catch fire and her fusion pop songs in general proved to be a damp squib with the global audience.
'Sure, I can’t hit the note because Pitbull or Dr. Dre is sitting right there,' said the 43-year-old, poking fun at herself, in a cover interview for Marie Claire.
'I quickly realized that I wasn’t made for it and should go back to my day job of acting,' added Chopra, who has since .
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Priyanka Chopra candidly discussed her abortive pop career, which included the single Exotic featuring Pitbull, with whom she is pictured in the music video
In the early 2010s she attempted a foray into music that peaked with the songs In My City featuring will.i.am in 2012 (pictured)
'Sure, I can’t hit the note because Pitbull or Dr. Dre is sitting right there,' said the 43-year-old, poking fun at herself, in a cover interview for Marie Claire
After striking out to America to widen the scope of her stardom, she tied the knot in 2018 with Nick Jonas, who .
However she has never allowed her pop act husband to listen to the 40 unreleased tracks she still has in her archive from her own failed stab at his profession.
Chopra is pictured for Marie Claire in a dress by Stella McCartney
Chopra is pictured for Marie Claire in Alexander McQueen boots and a dress from the same brand, as well as a set of earrings and a ring by Bulgari
Chopra also modeled Bulgari jewelry with a Camilla and Marc dress
For her latest magazine shoot, she also teamed a Bulgari bracelet with this combination Issey Miyake look of a top and skirt
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Chopra is pictured in a dress by Carolina Herrera
Her cover outfit featured a Dior dress with Jimmy Choos, occasionally accessorized inside the magazine with a Dior hat
'I quickly realized that I wasn’t made for it and should go back to my day job of acting,' said Chopra when discussed her pop career
Her magazine shoot featured photos of her draped in a frock by Zimmermann
One of her upcoming movies is Varanasi, the first feature-length picture she has done in her native country since the 2021 release The White Tiger.
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Varanasi is a product not of Bollywood - the Bombay-based Hindi-language film industry that made Chopra a household name in India - but of the Telugu-language film industry based in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Due for release in 2027, the picture is the latest project by S.S. Rajamouli, the director of such box office juggernauts as RRR and Baahubali, which broke out of the regional Telugu-speaking audience to become 'pan-India' hits.
Chopra said Varanasi - shot both in Kenya and India - is 'going to be a spectacle like never before,' adding: 'We travel across the world, and we travel across time, which is what makes this movie really interesting.'
At another point in her new interview, she reflected: 'Our job is literally gig to gig as an actor, so there’s an internal anguish: "I have to keep doing it and I have to be the hamster on the wheel." But at least in this season of my life, I’m giving myself permission to not run as much.'
She noted: 'Maybe it’s because I’m in a position where I’m able to make choices and seek the work that I want. I still want to build. I still dream big. I am very ambitious, but I feel like I can now operate with a sense of balance.'
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