By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use. Cheyenne lends his lush vocals to the album featuring a piece orchestra backing him and Jane Krakowski joining him for a harmonizing duet. It's also music to our ears that Cheyenne is returning for the sixth season of American Horror Story: Hotel , on which he memorably played the Cortez's gay owner, Will Drake, opposite Countess Lady Gaga.
Gaga has confirmed in the press that she's returning too. Here's our mellifluous chat:. Cheyenne Jackson: This is the music I grew up listening to. It seemed natural to start working on this music in clubs and performance arts centers, and after doing that for about three years, I wanted to preserve a lot of these songs, so an album was the way to do that.
You cover many musical genres in the album. Were there any you had to educate yourself on? A good melody is a good melody is a good melody, and so many of these songs are part of the American Songbook. I wanted some songs pared down to piano, bass, and drums, and some to be with a full orchestra.
It depended on what the melody was and what I was trying to say. This is what I love to do--the music of my youth. I love how the American Songbook is ever expanding, and that's why putting an Elton John song ["Your Song"] in there definitely works.
I happen to have written a dirty version of it. It goes, "And then you go and spoil it all by eating something stupid like my asshole. I love another song you do, the fiery "I Who Have Nothing. It's so dramatic. The irony's not lost on me. I'm doing P-town the weekend of the fourth, then Vegas July 15 and But right now, we're shooting Horror Story.
