The soundtrack to King Charles’ life features music from Kylie Minogue : NPR

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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 just lately introduced a playlist that represents the soundtrack of his life in a collaboration with Apple Music entitled the King’s Room Music Show.

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 rejoice and honor the unity of the more than 50 independent countries inside the Commonwealth.
2. The playlist was recorded within the king’s workplace at Buckingham Palace. It goals to focus on King Charles’ reference to music from all through the Commonwealth, spanning from the Nineteen Thirties to current day. The playlist includes a numerous vary of artists throughout varied genres, together with Bob Marley, Grace Jones, Minogue, and RAYE. It is going to be out there for streaming beginning Monday, March 10, simply in time for the vacation.
3. In accordance to the press release from Apple, the collection will narrate Charles’ life by means of music, and underscores the importance of music to him: “It has that exceptional means to convey joyful reminiscences flooding again from the deepest recesses of our reminiscence, to consolation us in occasions of unhappiness, and to take us to distant locations. However maybe, above all, it may possibly elevate our spirits to such a level, and all of the extra so when it brings us collectively in celebration. In different phrases, it brings us pleasure.”

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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 Fitness+ podcast, “Time to Walk.”

Rachel Newman, Apple Music’s world head of content material and editorial, said, “Human curation has all the time been a key pillar of our distinctive editorial strategy.”

The King’s Music Room might be out there on Apple Music beginning Monday at 6 a.m.

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