For the first time in more than 25 years, singer-songwriter, author and Go-Go’s lead singer Belinda Carlisle has an album out, her first English-speaking solo release since 1996’s “A Woman & A Man.” Appropriately entitled “Kismet,” the new five-song collection is also notable for re-teaming Carlisle with songwriter extraordinaire Diane Warren in nice twist of fate.
As the story goes, Carlisle’s son Duke was visiting the Los Angeles café Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf where he spotted Warren sitting at a corner table and approached her to introduce himself. Warren, the Grammy/Emmy/Golden Globe/Academy Award winner behind hits for everyone from Cher to Alice Cooper, just so happened to have written new material and was looking for the perfect voice with which to pair it. An immediate phone call was placed to Mom and, just like that, the dynamic duo — songwriter and singer — behind 1987 hit “I Get Weak” were back in the fold.
