"The lady who was training me said, 'My dear, you're a soprano. "I remember going in and saying, 'I can't sing the hills are alive with a country accent.' She laughs. "I was a Rodgers and Hammerstein girl for a while where I did shows like The Sound of Music and The King and I on Broadway," says Osmond, who actually has 20 years of opera training experience. Of course, while some eyebrows may raise at the mere sound of Osmond's heavenly operettic voice, it is a form of music she has long loved ever since she began performing on Broadway. RELATED: Marie Osmond to Release First Album in 5 Years, Unexpected: 'A Culmination of a Lifetime' "My son Michael loved it when I practiced that song," she remembers. His memory welled up in her eyes and shone through her soaring voice yet again as she recorded "Pie Jesu," a song that she has sung countless times since Michael's death and a song that she now performs as a tribute to her late son. "It has all the emotion of losing my son, you know? That was tough." "'Somewhere' was a very difficult song for me to sing," Osmond, 62, tells PEOPLE of the West Side Story favorite that is now lovingly featured on her album Unexpected. More than 11 years have passed since Marie Osmond lost her son Michael to suicide, 11 years that the iconic entertainer has filled with a mix of shows and albums and children and grandchildren, all in an attempt to live the fulfilling life her son would have wanted her to live.īut there are still moments when her heart hurts like it was yesterday.
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