Sarah Brightman Writing Song To Sing In Space
Sarah Brightman has revealed she and ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber are working on a song for her to perform during her space trip.
The English-born soprano is training for 16 hours a day in Star City, near Moscow, ahead of the 10-day tourist flight to the International Space Station on 1 September.
Brightman admitted travelling in space seemed "unrealistic and crazy", but said watching the first moon landing when she was nine was "a pivotal moment" in her life.
She said: "It actually changed my perception about life. Suddenly my mind opened".
"For me to have got this far and have a taste of what I felt at that time, and have a taste of the future, is an amazing thing."
Speaking at a news conference in London, Brightman told reporters she wanted to sing from space in a duet with a performer back on Earth.
She said: "We're trying to work this out at the moment, we're working on the music at the moment."
Brightman, who is learning Russian for her trip, said she was working with Lloyd Webber on a song.
"It's finding a song that suits the idea of space and something that is incredibly simple," said the 54-year-old.
The singer said Lloyd Webber had come up with "the most beautiful line" for a piece she could potentially perform from the spacecraft.
The Phantom Of The Opera star, who scored a top 10 hit in 1978 with I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper, said she might do one of the moves from the hit track's dance routine while she is up in space.
Brightman, who has sold 30 million records, said she had paid for the trip herself, but could not "contractually" reveal how much it cost.
The figure is thought to be in the region of the tens of millions.
