Sound Of A Woman
Rita Wilson
Sound of a Woman is the sixth studio album by American actress, singer, and songwriter Rita Wilson, released on May 1, 2026 via Sing It Loud Records. The 11-track, 44-minute album marks her first release of original music in four years since the 2022 duets collection Now & Forever, and represents her most personal and conceptually ambitious project to date. Co-produced by Wilson and nine-time Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb — known for his landmark work with Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, and Jason Isbell — and recorded at the historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, the album was primarily co-written by Wilson with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Amy Wadge, who penned Ed Sheeran's 18-times-platinum "Thinking Out Loud" and has collaborated with Kacey Musgraves and Alicia Keys. Wilson describes the project as "a narrative arc of different phases of a woman's life," tracing an impassioned suite of songs from youth through love, loss, grief, and family to the radical awakening of full-fledged self-acceptance.
The title track and lead single "Sound of a Woman," released February 6 with a music video directed by Steven Sebring (known for his work with Patti Smith), opens the album as what Wilson calls its prologue — a meditation on the many facets of womanhood, from quiet inner strength to vocal defiance. The album moves through emotionally varied terrain: "Better For Her" explores the complicated feeling of seeing an ex thrive with someone else; "Your Mother" offers a tender reflection on how a parent's advice lingers long after they are gone; and the closing "No Matter What" is an upbeat tribute to the community of female friendships that have carried Wilson through life. Music videos were also released for "Michelangelo" and "Jury of One." Wilson has described the album as emerging from a place of hard-won self-possession: "Understanding and accepting that everything that life has thrown at me, as painful as some of it has been, has brought me to a place where I am more fully myself," she told the album's official site.
Sound of a Woman is the sixth studio album by American actress, singer, and songwriter Rita Wilson, released on May 1, 2026 via Sing It Loud Records. The 11-track, 44-minute album marks her first release of original music in four years since the 2022 duets collection Now & Forever, and represents her most personal and conceptually ambitious project to date. Co-produced by Wilson and nine-time Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb — known for his landmark work with Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, and Jason Isbell — and recorded at the historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, the album was primarily co-written by Wilson with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Amy Wadge, who penned Ed Sheeran's 18-times-platinum "Thinking Out Loud" and has collaborated with Kacey Musgraves and Alicia Keys. Wilson describes the project as "a narrative arc of different phases of a woman's life," tracing an impassioned suite of songs from youth through love, loss, grief, and family to the radical awakening of full-fledged self-acceptance.
The title track and lead single "Sound of a Woman," released February 6 with a music video directed by Steven Sebring (known for his work with Patti Smith), opens the album as what Wilson calls its prologue — a meditation on the many facets of womanhood, from quiet inner strength to vocal defiance. The album moves through emotionally varied terrain: "Better For Her" explores the complicated feeling of seeing an ex thrive with someone else; "Your Mother" offers a tender reflection on how a parent's advice lingers long after they are gone; and the closing "No Matter What" is an upbeat tribute to the community of female friendships that have carried Wilson through life. Music videos were also released for "Michelangelo" and "Jury of One." Wilson has described the album as emerging from a place of hard-won self-possession: "Understanding and accepting that everything that life has thrown at me, as painful as some of it has been, has brought me to a place where I am more fully myself," she told the album's official site.
Sound Of A Woman
Rita Wilson
Sound of a Woman is the sixth studio album by American actress, singer, and songwriter Rita Wilson, released on May 1, 2026 via Sing It Loud Records. The 11-track, 44-minute album marks her first release of original music in four years since the 2022 duets collection Now & Forever, and represents her most personal and conceptually ambitious project to date. Co-produced by Wilson and nine-time Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb — known for his landmark work with Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, and Jason Isbell — and recorded at the historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, the album was primarily co-written by Wilson with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Amy Wadge, who penned Ed Sheeran's 18-times-platinum "Thinking Out Loud" and has collaborated with Kacey Musgraves and Alicia Keys. Wilson describes the project as "a narrative arc of different phases of a woman's life," tracing an impassioned suite of songs from youth through love, loss, grief, and family to the radical awakening of full-fledged self-acceptance.
The title track and lead single "Sound of a Woman," released February 6 with a music video directed by Steven Sebring (known for his work with Patti Smith), opens the album as what Wilson calls its prologue — a meditation on the many facets of womanhood, from quiet inner strength to vocal defiance. The album moves through emotionally varied terrain: "Better For Her" explores the complicated feeling of seeing an ex thrive with someone else; "Your Mother" offers a tender reflection on how a parent's advice lingers long after they are gone; and the closing "No Matter What" is an upbeat tribute to the community of female friendships that have carried Wilson through life. Music videos were also released for "Michelangelo" and "Jury of One." Wilson has described the album as emerging from a place of hard-won self-possession: "Understanding and accepting that everything that life has thrown at me, as painful as some of it has been, has brought me to a place where I am more fully myself," she told the album's official site.
Sound of a Woman is the sixth studio album by American actress, singer, and songwriter Rita Wilson, released on May 1, 2026 via Sing It Loud Records. The 11-track, 44-minute album marks her first release of original music in four years since the 2022 duets collection Now & Forever, and represents her most personal and conceptually ambitious project to date. Co-produced by Wilson and nine-time Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb — known for his landmark work with Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, and Jason Isbell — and recorded at the historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, the album was primarily co-written by Wilson with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Amy Wadge, who penned Ed Sheeran's 18-times-platinum "Thinking Out Loud" and has collaborated with Kacey Musgraves and Alicia Keys. Wilson describes the project as "a narrative arc of different phases of a woman's life," tracing an impassioned suite of songs from youth through love, loss, grief, and family to the radical awakening of full-fledged self-acceptance.
The title track and lead single "Sound of a Woman," released February 6 with a music video directed by Steven Sebring (known for his work with Patti Smith), opens the album as what Wilson calls its prologue — a meditation on the many facets of womanhood, from quiet inner strength to vocal defiance. The album moves through emotionally varied terrain: "Better For Her" explores the complicated feeling of seeing an ex thrive with someone else; "Your Mother" offers a tender reflection on how a parent's advice lingers long after they are gone; and the closing "No Matter What" is an upbeat tribute to the community of female friendships that have carried Wilson through life. Music videos were also released for "Michelangelo" and "Jury of One." Wilson has described the album as emerging from a place of hard-won self-possession: "Understanding and accepting that everything that life has thrown at me, as painful as some of it has been, has brought me to a place where I am more fully myself," she told the album's official site.