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Kate Hudson shares challenges she faced while pursuing her lifelong passion of singing, writing music
For more than two decades, Kate Hudson has found success on the big screen, winning a Golden Globe and earning an Oscar nomination.
Now the actress is revealing more about her lifelong passion which came as a surprise to many who’ve followed the actress’ career.
Hudson said in an interview with “CBS Mornings” that those who know her best know she’s been a singer and has written music her entire life.
“But people who don’t, it’s like a discovery and it’s kind of fun,” she said. “It’s like I just let this secret out a little bit.”
Her album, “Glorious,” debuted at No. 5 on the emerging artists chart. It blends various genres from rock to soul, pop and folk.
She collaborated with Linda Perry, who has written for stars like singers Christina Aguilera, Pink and Gwen Stefani, on the song “Glorious.”
“Linda is a powerful, incredible songwriter and what was amazing about writing with her is she just kind of moved it along,” Hudson said. “It was like having someone really kind of push the process and not allow me to overthink what I was doing.”
For the album, Hudson also collaborated on the song “Love Ain’t Easy” with her partner Danny Fujikawa.
“When you are with someone who also speaks that language, it enriches a part of the relationship,” she said.
The 45-year-old said she’s experienced people questioning why she’s doing this now.
“A lot of people being like ‘Why? You know what I mean, why do you want to do this?” she said. “It’s hard… You’re putting yourself out there and you’re not young anymore.'”
But for her, it’s about sharing a passion, and while she loves performing, writing is what drives her.
“There’s such an important place for youth in music for writing. It’s so vital. We need it. The young generation is what really can shift culture in music, but there is something to say about age in writing and wisdom and that reflection,” Hudson said. “For me, it was just like I have to just share it and I’m so happy I did.”
Although now she’s a billboard-charting artist, Hudson said she isn’t giving up acting.
“There’s no shift, just an addition,” she said.
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Remains of decapitated “vampire child” found in Poland, archaeologists say
Workers removing tree branches near a historic cathedral in Chelm, Poland, unearthed something unexpected when they came upon two children’s skeletons in a shallow burial pit where no gravesites are marked, the government’s Culture Ministry said.
Neither skeleton was buried in a coffin and one of the children was buried with the characteristics of an anti-vampire burial, Dr. Stanisława Gołuba, the archaeologist leading the research, said in a Facebook post. The child’s head was separated from its body, the post said, and the skull was facing down into the ground arranged on a stone. This, plus the way the skeletons were oriented, appears to be consistent with ancient burial methods used to prevent a person thought to be a demonic entity from exiting the grave, Gołuba said.
The skeletons appeared to be from the Early Middle Ages.
The children’s skeletons were removed from their graves, documented and waiting for further analysis, the statement said.
It’s the most recent in a series of findings in Poland of remains buried in ways that suggest people at the time believed they were dealing with vampires or other supernatural entities.
In 2022, Polish researchers found the remains of a woman at a gravesite in the village of Pień with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot. According to ancient beliefs, the padlock was supposed to prevent a deceased person thought to be a vampire from returning from the dead. The sickle was thought to cut the neck if the corpse tried to rise from the grave.
Professor Dariusz Polinski of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun said this type of practice became common throughout Poland in the 17th century in response to a reported vampire epidemic. In addition to practices with a sickle, sometimes corpses were burned, smashed with stones or had their heads and legs cut off.
Six so-called “vampire skeletons” were also found at a cemetery in northwest Poland in 2013. Each was buried with either a sickle laid across their necks or stones placed beneath their jaws said Lesley Gregoricka of the University of South Alabama who led the research team.
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