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Broadway star Cynthia Erivo has announced her debut album Ch. 1 Vs. 1, with the Grammy-, Tony-, and Emmy-winning singer also sharing the first single “The Good” ahead of the LP’s September 17th release. “In storytelling, chapter one and verse one is the way you always begin, and because I …

When Cynthia Erivo was cast as Harriet Tubman in the 2019 biopic Harriet, the internet lit up with criticism. Erivo is English, the outcry went, how could she possibly do justice to a uniquely American hero? Her answer was a muscular, wrenching performance that earned her an Oscar nomination. Backlash …