New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia) Lakeshore Records will release the Peeples - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack EP digitally on May 7, 2013. The EP features three new songs by GRAMMY and Tony nominated songwriter/producer Stephen Bray with performances by the film's
Craig Robinson (TV's The Office, Hot Tub Time Machine),
David Alan Grier (A Soldier's Story, TVs In Living Color) and Tyler
James Williams (TV's Everybody Hates Chris, Unaccompanied Minors) along with original music by
Aaron Zigman (Sex and the City, The Notebook).
Bray has produced and composed songs for various multi-platinum artists including Madonna, the Jets, Gladys Knight and Kylie Minogue; and his co-composing work on the Broadway musical, The
Color Purple, earned him both a Tony and GRAMMY nomination. "Writing the songs for Peeples was a fantastic opportunity to blend my love of film with musical theater," said Bray. "The challenge to write music and lyrics for four different characters was made easy and fun by Tina's certainty about what she wanted. It was also an extreme pleasure to work with such amazing talent! Craig, Epatha,
David and Tyler were completely open and up for the quirky tunes we asked them to sing. I'm looking forward to the Peeples taking their show on the road!"
In addition to the new songs, the EP also includes two score pieces by
Aaron Zigman. This Emmy-winning songwriter plants one foot in the world of pop idioms and the other in the emotional scope of a symphony orchestra to create narrative scores that complement each genre he's assigned—and with more than 50 film credits to his name, that has encompassed everything from the passionate romance The Notebook, to the fantastical animated adventure in Escape from Planet Earth, to the comedy Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection.
Sparks fly when Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace's (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage. Wade might be a fish-out-of-water among this seemingly perfect East Coast clan, but he's not about to let himself flounder. Instead, in a wild weekend of fun, dysfunction and hilarious suprises, Wade is about to discover there's room for all kinds of Peeples in this family, no matter their differences. Writer and first time director Tina
Gordon Chism (writer of Drumline) joins forces with Tyler Perry to present a laugh-out-loud look at the family ties that freak us out... but bind us together with love.
Track listing
1. Speak It (Don't Leak It!) -
Craig Robinson
2. Drawers on the Floor - Tyler
James Williams
3. Turn You On - Maxayn Lewis
4. Sweat Lodge -
Aaron Zigman
5. Run Chickens Run -
Aaron Zigman
6. Speak It (Don't Leak It!) - Finale -
Craig Robinson,
David Alan Grier and Maxayn Lewis.
