The GRAMMY Museum welcomed Kate Hudson to the Museum’s intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an evening discussing her career, latest album, Glorious, creative process, and more, with a performance to follow.
Kate Hudson’s not sure what took her so long, especially with all the music whirling inside her. Raised between Colorado’s mountains and Santa Monica and Malibu’s beaches, she came of age with radio that delivered everything from Pearl Jam to Pharcyde, Neil Young to De La Soul. And so many women -- from Billie Holliday, Etta James and Joni Mitchell to Alanis Morrisette, Madonna, Patty Griffin, and Chrissie Hynde– who captured all the emotions a teenager feels.
That hunger for musical expression from the woman who embodied the ultimate rocker’s muse in Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning Almost Famous ran deeper than most people would imagine. She admits, “I’ve been writing music since I was a young girl. I always felt connected to music. Since I was very little, I wrote songs, and little poems and lyrics that came to me, even though the house I grew up in was more of a theater house than a musical house.”
When something burns inside you like that, it’s only a matter of time. A rock & roll soul, look at the relationships she’s chosen, the lineage she comes from, even the free-spirited nature that defines every aspect of how she faces her work, her life, her creativity, and her passions.