King Charles is revealing his music favorites.
The King, 76, exhibits off a considerably eclectic mixture of musical go-tos in The King’s Music Room, a present curated for Apple Music, that premieres on Mar. 10.
Based mostly round a Commonwealth theme, the music selections are Charles’ personal, and listeners get a way of each his enthusiasm for the music, and the way, by way of his charming feedback, he has a remarkably good radio voice.
Via his selections, the royal praises artists equivalent to Beyoncé and Kylie Minogue for his or her help of his King’s Belief (previously the Prince’s Belief), and remembers his travels to the Caribbean, the place he met Bob Marley and his widow Rita Marley. Charles additionally remembers seeing Raye carry out on the Apple HQ in Battersea in December. (PEOPLE understands he’s now studying extra concerning the artist and enjoying her music.)
Right here, learn extra about Charles’ music loves, as mentioned in The King’s Music Room.
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Bob Marley & The Wailers — “Might You Be Beloved”
Within the intro, Charles features a rendition of the music performed by the King’s Guard at Buckingham Palace, earlier than enjoying the precise tune by late singer himself.
Charles praises Marley’s “marvelous, infectious power, but additionally his deep sincerity, and his profound concern for his neighborhood.”
“I at all times recall his phrases: ‘The individuals have a voice within them, ‘ ” he provides.
Millie Small – “My Boy Lollipop”
The Jamaican-born singer was a kind of who got here to the U.Okay. as a part of the Windrush Technology of the late Forties, and “whose presents have so drastically enriched our nation,” the King says.
Kylie Minogue’s model of “The Loco-Movement”
This music, Charles says, “is music for dancing.”
“Once more, it has that infectious power which makes it, I discover, extremely onerous to take a seat nonetheless,” he provides. “There may be such an irresistibly joyous feeling to that music.”
Al Bowlly – “The Very Thought Of You”
The monitor is a music from the Twenties-Thirties period that “reminds” Charles “of my much-loved grandmother, as a result of she used to play these kinds of music quite a bit.”
The royal provides that the tune “additionally by no means fails to carry my spirits.”
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Grace Jones – “La Vie En Rose”
Charles says he and his spouse, Queen Camilla, have identified Jones “for a while.”
“I had the good pleasure of seeing lately at a reception on the St. James’s Palace,” he continues, then asking: “Is it potential to enhance on such a traditional music?”
“Love Me Once more” — Raye
“She is a superb ambassador for British music,” Charles says of the artist.
Daddy Lumba – “Mpempem Do Me”
With a connection to Ghana, which Charles final visited in 2018, he says, “I discovered myself dancing alongside” to this monitor.
Davido – “KANTE” (feat. Fave)
The King factors out that this music “options lyrics in pidgin, which I really like in all its types, and through which I tried to make a speech after I final visited Nigeria.”
He provides, “I perceive that, due to Afrobeats, it’s changing into ever extra in style around the globe.”
Miriam Makeba – “The Click on Track”
Highlighting how the monitor is within the Xhosa language, Charles quips, “I shan’t strive an excessive amount of to pronounce the title, because it requires quite a lot of follow!”
Jools Holland & Ruby Turner – “My Nation Man”
Holland is one other British musician the royal has identified for years, alongside the “unstoppable phenomenon” of soul singer Turner.
Anoushka Shankar – “Indian Summer season”
Charles says he likes the sitar enjoying within the music for being “deeply redolent of the traditional tradition of India.”
Siti Nurhaliza – “Anta Permana”
The royal celebrates how the Malaysian artist sings “about love that’s stronger than time.”
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa – “E Te Iwi E (Name To The Folks)”
The music holds particular which means to Charles, because the New Zealand opera nice carried out it at his marriage ceremony to the late Princess Diana.
Michael Bublé – “Have not Met You But”
Bublé — who lately dined with Charles’ son Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Vancouver — is Charles’ decide to characterize Commonwealth nation Canada on the listing.
Arrow – “Scorching, Scorching, Scorching”
From Monserrat, the King says of the title: “After I final visited the island, it actually was.”
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Beyoncé – “Loopy In Love” (feat. Jay-Z)
Charles thanks the musician for her work serving to help the Prince’s, and now, the King’s Belief, earlier than congratulating Beyoncé for successful her first album of the yr award on the 2025 Grammys final month.
Diana Ross – “Upside Down”
The music, Charles says, is considered one of his “specific favorites.”
“After I was a lot youthful, it was completely inconceivable to not stand up and dance when it was performed,” he additional explains. “So, I’m wondering if I can nonetheless simply handle it?”
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Charles is head of the Commonwealth, a unfastened coalition of 56 international locations — together with Australia, Canada, India and Kenya — which have robust ties to the U.Okay. and span a lot of the world.
On Mar. 10, he’ll lead the royal household, together with Prince William and Kate Middleton, throughout a service at Westminster Abbey.
“This appeared such an fascinating and revolutionary strategy to have fun this yr’s Commonwealth Day,” Charles says within the present.
The King’s Music Room is now obtainable to observe without cost, or view anytime on demand with an Apple Music subscription, on Apple Music 1.
Further radio broadcasts shall be obtainable to stream without cost on Apple Music 1 and Apple Music Hitson March 10 and March 11.
