As U.K. rockers Coldplay ready to launch fifth LP Mylo Xyloto October 24, frontman Chris Martin has confirmed that Rihanna performs a duet on the new release, reports The Sun.
Despite Coldplay’s global success including numerous awards and millions of albums sold, Martin admitted it was no easy feat to ask Rihanna to lend her vocals to the track, Princess of China.
"It took a while to pluck up the courage to ask her,” he admitted. “We did a show in Las Vegas and I met her and said, ‘Do you think there’s any chance?’ I was very Hugh Grant-like and spluttering about it.”
"She has such an amazing voice and it’s so different to mine,” he continued. “When the vocal happened I thought ‘Wow, you sound different’ but I think that’s also because she was singing a different song to what we are used to hearing from her…"
Coldplay have confirmed fourteen new tracks for Mylo Xyloto. Paradise, the second single from the forthcoming album, was released on U.K. radio today.