Minnie Driver - actress and singer gallery
Early in Minnie Driver’s career Driver was a member of a band called “Puff, Rocks and Brown”; the band was signed to a development deal with Island Records, which ended without a release.
Minnie Driver began a low-profile return to music in 2000; the following year, she signed with EMI and Rounder Records and performed at SXSW. Canadian music producer Colin Craig assisted in the eventual release of Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket, which reached No. 43[5] in the UK, and a second single, “Invisible Girl” peaking at No. 68. The album was backed by a group including members of the Wallflowers and Pete Yorn’s band. Driver wrote 10 of the 11 songs on the album and also covered “Hungry Heart” from Bruce Springsteen’s The River. In 2004, Driver was the support act for the Finn Brothers on the UK portion of their world tour.
In 2004, Minnie Driver played Carlotta Giudicelli in Joel Schumacher’s film of The Phantom of the Opera. Because of the vocal requirements of the role, Driver was the sole cast member to have her voice dubbed. However, she did lend her own voice to Learn to be Lonely, a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber specifically for the film version of his musical (it plays over the closing credits of the movie). Driver released her second album entitled Seastories on July 17, 2007. The 12-track set is produced by Marc “Doc” Dauer, who also produced Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket. Ryan Adams and Liz Phair are among the list of collaborators for the album.
As portrayed by Minnie Driver in Grosse Pointe Blank, Debi Newberry is one of the iconic film DJs. The part fitted Driver like a glove, since she had been a budding singer and was on the verge of signing a deal with EMI when she was offered the female lead in the film Circle of Friends in the mid-Nineties. Her music career has therefore little of the method acting so prevalent when other thespians attempt the transition.
Six months pregnant and in need of an early night after an appearance on GMTV, Minnie Driver’s on the stage of this bijou London venue at 8.45pm. Wearing a loose, off-the-shoulder black number, she starts with “Stars & Satellites”, the opening track on Seastories, her second album, which came out in the US last year but is only getting a release over here this week.
Mocking actors for making music seems somewhat churlish, not least because so many singers move into movies with only an occasional grumble from the public. In the case of the British-born, LA-based Oscar nominee Minnie Driver there is little doubt that a love of singing, rather than a quest for more fame, is her main motivation. Before her acting career took off, Driver fronted a band signed to a major label and, despite scant commercial success for her solo debut, Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket (2004), this week she released a follow-up, the country-flavoured Seastories.
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