On Music

An amazing actress-singer with a formidable stage presence, Idina Menzel was the Tony-winning star of such hits as Rent and Wicked, before raising her profile on the popular musical series Glee – nominated 10 times for the Golden Globes, winner of 4. On the big screen, she voiced the Snow Queen in the Disney animated feature Frozen (winner of two Golden Globes, including Menzel's recording of the song 'Let It Go').

Brand new Golden Globe winner for La La Land,  in which he plays keyboards, sings and dances, Ryan Gosling confesses - he is a great music lover:“Music has always been a part of my life. My uncle Perry was an Elvis impersonator and, you know, at 8 years old I came in the house one day and he was bedazzling a white jumpsuit.

Reese Witherspoon plays Rosita, a busy mom of many piglets, in the Golden Globe nominated animation movie Sing. She gets to sing songs by Katy Perry and Taylor Swift quite well.

Nick Nolte, a Golden Globe winner and a nominee this year (again) for his starring role in the TV comedy series Graves, is a huge fan of the music of the ’60s and ‘70s that freed, in his views, the American youth mentality from the military and political oppression of the ‘50s.  Let’s hear what the iconic actor said when he was asked how important music has been in his life:“Oh, big.

Martin Scorsese latest opus, Silence, is an intimate prayer to the power of faith and the search for oneself. The composition of the soundtrack was very close to Scorsese, as he is equally passionate about music and film.

Golden Globe winner Katey Sagal, now on screen playing a devoted Italian mom in the movie Bleed For This, has always professed her love for music as a continuous source of inspiration and expression. And it started very early on, she told us: “I have a book coming out in March and I speak a lot about music in the book because my mother taught me to play the guitar and to sing when I was very young so it was my very first form of expression and I was a very shy, introverted kind of child with big emotions.

“Music is a gift. Music has been the skeleton key that's gotten me through every door including this one” says Pharrell Williams ,talking about his work as songwriter and producer for the upcoming movie Hidden Figures, a true and surprising story about the first US space travel.

Gael García Bernal is one of the most talented Mexican movie actors, now branching out to American films and television. Last January he was awarded a Golden Globe for his starring role as a specially gifted musician and maestro in the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle.

Gina Rodriguez, star and Golden Globe winner for her breakthrough television performance in Jane the Virgin, is on top of the world these days, as she also stars in the box office hit movie Deepwater Horizon, about the tragic BP oil spill off the Louisiana coastline. When we met, the joyful actress had something interesting to say about music and how she loves this art form capable of crashing barriers between people from different nations.

Cameron Crowe started his unusual career as a 16-year-old rock journalist for Rolling Stones. He went on to become a Golden Globe nominated filmmaker with Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous.