Renée Elise Goldsberry has spent the past decade as a part of a group. She earned both a Tony and a Grammy as one of three Schuyler sisters in Hamilton, before staging a fictional comeback as one of four members of the titular band in Girls5Eva. Now, she’s going solo to tell the world Who I Really Am in her debut album, out June 6.
“For years, I’ve poured my heart into bringing other people’s vision to life—on Broadway, in the studio, and on screen,” Goldsberry said in a statement. “But this moment is mine. These songs are deeply personal—drawn from the full range of my experiences, from joy to heartbreak, and everything in between. They represent a new beginning—one I’ve been quietly building toward for a long time.”
The artist is celebrating that new beginning with a brand new single, “Staring,” which she describes as “a modern proclamation of a belty blues song” in a press release. It’s a mode we haven’t heard her voice in in a while, and it sounds like it won’t be the only new genre on the record. Goldsberry wrote 11 of the album’s 13 songs, which also include the “bold, brassy title track,” a “spare and emotionally rich ballad” called “Don’t Want to Love You” written by her Girls5Eva co-star Sara Bareilles, and the “R&B-leaning goodbye anthem,” “Smiling.” The album also includes a new, guitar-heavy arrangement of “Satisfied,” which Goldsberry initially performed with the original Hamilton cast last month to kick off the musical’s 10th anniversary celebration.
The album comes on the heels of another deeply personal project: a documentary called Satisfied about Goldsberry’s life that premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. You can check out the tracklist for Who I Really Am below:
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