Chris Cornell’s daughter Toni declares pop-rock debut single ‘Sundown of Your Love’
Toni Cornell, daughter of late grunge legend Chris, has introduced her debut single ‘Sundown Of Your Love’ – pre-save it here.
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The 20-year-old shared on Instagram that the monitor might be launched subsequent Thursday (November 21) and revealed that it was written by MoZella, who co-wrote Miley Cyrus’ 2013 hit ‘Wrecking Ball’, and produced by Dave Hamelin, who labored on Beyoncé’s Grammy-nominated single ‘16 Carriages’.
In her publish, she gave followers a preview, showcasing lyrics together with, “All I do know is I’m not prepared/ ‘Til you discover me/ I’ll be ready within the sundown of your love.”
Whereas she describes it as her “first tune”, she did launch a monitor, ‘Far Away Locations’, again in 2019. She recorded the tune in 2017, three months earlier than her father died that Could on the age of 52, and it options manufacturing from the Soundgarden and Audioslave icon too.
Through the years, Toni has carried out a variety of covers, too, together with Temple Of The Canine’s ‘Starvation Strike’, Pearl Jam’s ‘Black’, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, and Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, which was her dad’s favorite tune to cowl.
In 2018, she launched a duet of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, which she carried out alongside her father, and donated the proceeds to the Worldwide Rescue Committee (IRC). The earlier 12 months, she started working with the humanitarian organisation alongside the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation, arrange by her mother and father in 2012, whereas in 2021 she was named the youngest ambassador to be appointed by the IRC.
She marked Father’s Day by sharing the recording of her and her father overlaying the monitor, writing: “Daddy, I like you and miss you a lot,” she wrote on the time. “You had been the very best father anybody may ask for. Our relationship was so particular, and also you had been all the time there for me.”
On Father’s Day in 2020, she mentioned in a Billboard Instagram takeover: “I’m so grateful that I used to be fortunate sufficient to have a dad who was additionally my greatest pal,” she mentioned. Music was our life, so it actually created a particular bond between the 2 of us, even after we weren’t on the highway. Right here on this studio, he taught me how one can play the guitar, how one can document songs.”
Again in 2022, she paid tribute to her father on what would have been his 58th birthday by sharing an intimate residence video of father and daughter overlaying Eminem and Rihanna’s ‘Love The Means You Lie’.
Extra not too long ago, Toni hit out on the protection of Liam Payne’s demise after the previous One Course star died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, final month.
On her Instagram Tales, she criticised TMZ for its determination to publish pictures of Payne’s resort room and physique, writing: “Within the wake of Liam Payne’s tragic passing, I really feel compelled to talk out concerning the disgusting, distressing pictures launched by TMZ together with graphic pictures of his resort room and physique.
“Having seen these pictures, I can’t assist however mirror alone expertise when graphic pictures of my father’s demise had been additionally revealed by TMZ.
“As a 12-year-old, I stumbled upon these photos whereas scrolling via my iPad, and it was indescribably traumatising, and one thing I nonetheless carry with me to at the present time. TMZ nonetheless has not chosen to have the decency, seven years later, to take away these pictures from the web, and it’s one thing I imagine needs to be finished.
“Whereas the photographs of Liam have since been taken down, it means nothing. They need to by no means have been put up within the first place, and it breaks my coronary heart to suppose that his 7-year-old son, Bear, may in the future come throughout them and endure precisely as I did.”