American singer Lady Gaga is famous for being a bonafide pop star, but the singer is changing her musical style for her new album. Gaga has spent two years recording a jazz album with singer Tony Bennett.
"This is a real collaboration, this album, so we've been working on it for two years together. It's been fantastic working with both Tony's quartet, and my quartet, and then Tony's orchestra that he's been working with. It's just the two of us together, which is exactly what the album is called. It's cheek to cheek, and when we sing together, there's sixty years between us, and when we sing, there's no distance."
28-year-old Gaga first worked together with the 87-year-old Bennett on his Grammy-winning, platinum-selling 2011 album, "Duets II." Benett said his fans will be impressed with Gaga's vocal performance on the upcoming album.
"She's a natural, she sings the way I sing. We change every night, it might be the same song, but we tune it around and do something with it every night. We make it a little different."
Although jazz isn't her usual genre of music, Lady Gaga says it came naturally to her in the recording studios.
"You know it's funny, but jazz comes a little more comfortable for me than pop music than R&B music. And I've sang jazz since I was 13 years old, which is kind of like my little secret that Tony found out. So this is almost easier for me than anything else. So I'm really, really happy. I'm actually happier than I've ever been."
The new album, called "Cheek to Cheek" is set to be released this Fall.
For Studio +, I'm Doris Wang.