She has a successful career as an actress, musician, and songwriter, is the Youth Ambassador for Return to Freedom, a non-profit wild-horse sanctuary and sings the end-credit song ofSecretariatIts Who You Are. Previously, she was a co-chair of the AmberWatch Foundation, an organization that promotes child safety and awareness. This article belowdescribes the production of the song.
Secretariatdirector Randall Wallace called on Nick Glennie-Smith to create the score for Secretariat. But for the end-credit song, Wallace called on his own songwriting experience to craft Its Who You Are. I began working on the song as part of my own private journey to see the heart of the story, says Wallace, who pursued a career in the music industry before switching his focus to film.
In a film thats about the greatest racehorse of all time and the journey he sparked, Its Who You Are was written, says Wallace, to address the question: what is the heart of victory? But the director didnt know whod actually singSecretariats end-credit song until cast members read through a scene in which Pennys daughter Kate, portrayed by AJ Michalka, is in a musical pageant that her mother is sadly unable to attend. During the pageant, says Wallace, Kate sings Silent Night, and at the read-through AJ sang it full voice. Wallace was impressed; he later asked Michalka to sing the song. They recorded the demo at Dockside Studios in Maurice, LA.
We had a blast recording It’s Who You Are says Michalka. Musically there is such an amazing vibe in Louisiana, so to lay down a version of the song at a beautiful studio overlooking a river is something I’ll never forget. Randall got out his guitar, I got on the piano and we shared a kum-ba-yah moment.
Secretariatopens on10 December 2010 in theaters in the UK.
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