Singer-songwriter Chloë Agnew was already famous at age 13 as one of the members of the vocal group Celtic Woman. Throughout the years, Agnew’s sound has explored areas of folk, traditional, and Christian music, as well as an acoustic singer-songwriter and even classical music. She’s performed for three consecutive U.S. presidents, and on stages alongside legends like Chaka Khan, Rita Wilson, and Italian tenor Alessandro Rinella. Agnew returns to Georgia stages this year, including the Atlanta Pops Christmas Concert in Roswell. She joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes to talk about her newest projects and appearances.
Among Agnew’s new explorations is a track for a cover album of the late ’80s, early 90’s glam rock band Slaughter. Versatile voice actor and producer Kari Wahlgren created the concept ‘SlaughtHER,’ and produced the tribute live show and album of Slaughter covers with an all-women team of musicians and vocalists.
“She had this idea, ‘Slaught-her,’ where the fantastic glam rock hair band were a huge influence on her teenage years growing up, so she was always just a massive fan of the band and their music,” Agnew said. “She came up with this fantastic concept to bring Slaughter’s music into 2021 … reimagined in a whole new way, reinvented, all these very unusual covers of all of their songs … She decided to take this project and record it and produce with an entirely female team.”
‘SlaughtHER’s’ album of covers comes out August 27th release of the cover album, with Agnew’s featured track, “On My Own.”
“I knew the original, obviously, and then Carrie had a wonderful idea of completely stripping it back, and leaving it all about the vocal, with just simple accompaniment of piano and cello, so that the lyrics could tell the fantastic story of ‘On My Own,’” Agnew said.
