Key Takeaways
- Fantasia announced that her next album will be her last, saying she hopes to keep touring with "the old and the new" music.
- She also teased a gospel album but shared no release date for her follow-up to 2019's Sketchbook.
- Fantasia stars alongside Tank in Tyler Perry's The Gospel of Christmas, which debuted on Netflix November 11 and follows a couple fighting to save their financially struggling church.
Fantasia has announced to fans that her next album will be her last one.
On Friday (November 13), during an appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show, the two powerhouse singers reflected on their journeys from American Idol to where they are now. Fantasia then spoke about her future while promoting her involvement in Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas.
"I’ve been traveling for 22 years singing the same hits," she said, "I want to do my last album…and my prayer is that I can travel off the old and the new [music]."
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That project will be her long-awaited follow-up to her 2019 album, Sketchbook. No release date has been revealed for the LP so far.
Though Fantasia claimed that her upcoming LP will be her last, the singer also seemingly revealed that she has a gospel album coming out — suggesting, based on her last album comments — that the project is already ready to go. "That’s coming too," said Fantasia to the show’s audience.
Fantasia stars as Rebeca in The Gospel of Christmas alongside Tank, who plays Isaac, a married couple attempting to keep a church with financial troubles alive as their family deals with serious pressures.
Joined by gospel singers like CeCe Winans, Fred Hammond, and Yolanda Adams, the film debuted on Netflix on November 11.
Kirk Franklin opened up about bringing Fantasia, Winans, and other artists to the film’s soundtrack, telling Vibe: "Music has always had a way of telling the parts of a story that words sometimes can't. What I love about this soundtrack is that it's not just music that accompanies a film. It’s music that carries the heart of the story."
"This film reminds us of the importance of family, faith, and finding hope even when life doesn’t look the way we imagined," Franklin added. "My prayer is that people connect with these songs long after the credits roll."
