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‘I had the Beatles’ Indian period in mind’: how Natasha Bedingfield made Unwritten
‘It’s a very positive song. It’s been used to motivate sports teams and now it’s a TikTok phenomenon’
The gospel choir section is rooted in my childhood: my family were lucky enough to be invited into an amazing African-Caribbean church in London run by the Wade brothers, who encouraged children to do music. I wanted a real choir for Unwritten but my sister Nikola was in LA visiting at that time, so with my friend Jessi Collins we just layered up the vocals. Then, when I was a young girl in the original production of Annie on Broadway, I would lay under the piano as Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin used it to write songs for the musical.
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