la la land soundtrack another day of sun

The musical number, which the producers had dubbed 'Traffic,' had been shot on the 110 and 105 freeway interchange on the last weekend of September 2015. Parrish writes and records her own music when not playing supper clubs six nights a week. There was also a time element pressing up on us.' 'But no one felt right, and we had already found our dancer. 'The dream was to have a girl who could both sing and dance on camera,' says La La Land's music supervisor, Steven Gizicki. Last winter, Ryan Svendsen, a trumpeter pal of Parrish's who has a side gig at Lionsgate Films, which was producing La La Land, heard about the search for a vocalist and encouraged Parrish to audition. 'I posted a song on YouTube, and someone commented, 'This girl sounds like a bad Fleetwood Mac cover band.' I thought, At least they're comparing me to Fleetwood Mac.' 'Sometimes rejection can be hopeful,' says Parrish. Unlike Mia (Emma Stone), however, she never considered hopping into her Honda and heading home. 'The number one thing I was told was 'You will never be marketable.' I've been told that at least 50 times.'īetween her jazz piano chops-Parrish can play every note of every song that you see Gosling playing in the film-and the relentless rounds of rejection, Parrish was a hybrid of La La Land's leads. Over the next couple of years, Parrish wrote and recorded music while chasing a recording contract. 'Unlike Sebastian, I'll play whatever the owner wants.' 'I still play at Vitello's four nights a week,' says Parrish. Like Ryan Gosling's character in the film (Sebastian, a gifted jazz pianist who plays at restaurants to pay the bills), she began to land gigs playing at supper clubs. Parrish lived out of her car during her first six months in Los Angeles.

The tune not only establishes the film's theme but also mirrors Parrish's starry-eyed crusade:

While dancer Reshma Gajjar lip-syncs the vocals in 'Another Day of Sun,' the dazzling six-minute opening number that takes place in freeway gridlock hell, it is Parrish who supplies the vocals. 'I knew if I didn't leave home then, I never would.'Ī little more than four years later, Parrish's voice is the first one you hear in La La Land, the aspirational musical for Hollywood dreamers that swept all seven categories for which it was nominated at Sunday's Golden Globes, including best motion picture, musical or comedy. 'I had a bag of bread and a jar of peanut butter, $700 and, I guess, grit,' says Parrish, who was 26 at the time. Embarking from her hometown of Newton, Kansas, with a meager amount of funds and a nebulous dream, the raven-haired jazz pianist and singer set out for Los Angeles. In late September 2012, Angela Parrish loaded her aging Honda Fit, affectionately known as Tessa, with all her earthly possessions.

La la land soundtrack another day of sun