Music

Golden Globe nominee  and, of course, ex-James Bond Pierce Brosnan can be seen in the upcoming AMC miniseries The Son, a western drama based on the  book by Philipp Meyer. Brosnan replaced another Golden Globe nominee, Sam Neill, in the role of Eli McCullough, the patriarch of a ranching dynasty in Texas.

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.

Golden Globe nominee Sienna Miller plays a starring role in the upcoming Ben Affleck  movie Live By Night. The New York-born actress says that music is an essential part of her life - and her acting.

Hailee Steinfeld, nominated for major awards at 13 for her performance as Mattie Ross in the Coen brothers' adaptation of True Grit, is back with the clever teenage comedy The Edge of Seventeen. This is also the title of the 1981 hit song  by Stevie Nicks.

Golden Globe winner Billy Bob Thornton – already on our TV screens with the Amazon series Goliath - returns to theaters as Bad Santa 2. But he is also putting the final touch to yet another pop CD called Tea Surfing, a title that came from the brilliant mind of his 12-year-old daughter Bella.