Singing their hearts out for the King in Love Me Tender
BACKSTAGE in Bromley, Mica Paris is taking a trip into the past. “I signed my first deal when I was 17,” recalls the chart-topping r’n’b star. “I remember everyone telling me I was so mature. My first album was blowing up in the States and Anita Baker met me in LA and said ‘You’re such an old soul’. Actually I was really green. I only looked competent.”
The singer, 46, has just trooped off from a London-staging of Love Me Tender, a jukebox musical celebrating the legacy of Elvis Presley (it transfers to Dublin today). Though her part is arguably slight — she plays the tough-talking matriarch of a small-town saloon — it’s her name up in lights over the billboard and she is unquestionably the big draw.
