The soundtrack to King Charles’ life options music from Kylie Minogue

Monarchs! They’re identical to us!

King Charles the III has revealed that he is not impervious to a generational earworm like Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.” He lately introduced a playlist that represents the soundtrack of his life in a collaboration with Apple Music entitled the King’s Room Music Present.

Three issues to know:

1. The playlist was introduced on Friday in honor of Commonwealth Day celebrations, which start subsequent week. This vacation is designed to have a good time and honor the unity of the greater than 50 impartial nations inside the Commonwealth.
2. The playlist was recorded within the king’s workplace at Buckingham Palace. It goals to spotlight King Charles’ reference to music from all through the Commonwealth, spanning from the Thirties to current day. The playlist encompasses a numerous vary of artists throughout varied genres, together with Bob Marley, Grace Jones, Minogue, and RAYE. It is going to be accessible for streaming beginning Monday, March 10, simply in time for the vacation.
3. In accordance to the press launch from Apple, the collection will narrate Charles’ life by means of track, and underscores the importance of music to him: “It has that remarkable ability to bring happy memories flooding back from the deepest recesses of our memory, to comfort us in times of sadness, and to take us to distant places. But perhaps, above all, it can lift our spirits to such a degree, and all the more so when it brings us together in celebration. In other words, it brings us joy.”

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Apple’s assertion didn’t specify what impressed the partnership with King Charles, 76, however this isn’t their first collaboration with a member of the royal household. In 2021, Prince William recorded an episode of the Apple Health+ podcast, “Time to Walk.”

Rachel Newman, Apple Music’s international head of content material and editorial, said, “Human curation has always been a key pillar of our unique editorial approach.”

The King’s Music Room shall be accessible on Apple Music beginning Monday at 6 a.m.

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