Hilary Duff 'Learning to Fly' album

If you thought you knew film, TV and pop music star Hilary Duff before, think again.

Her new, self-titled Hollywood Records album, the follow-up to the 3 ½ million-selling (5 million worldwide) Metamorphosis shows the remarkable creative growth spurt she has undergone.

“Compared to the first album, when I wasn’t confident enough to make suggestions, this time around, I was very involved,” says Duff about the recording process for Hilary Duff. “I worked with the songwriters, telling them what was happening in my life, and what I wanted to sing about. If I thought it needed to be more heavy, more rock, I said so. I feel that this record is so much more me. I can’t wait for people to hear it.”

Hilary’s 36-date Most Wanted Tour, which featured Haylie as an opening act, defied a weak summer market and sold out in most major markets around the U.S. Among the new songs she performed live were “Weird,” “Haters,” “Do You Want Me,” “Rock This World” and “Fly.” Her DVD, The Girl Can Rock, was released in August on Buena Vista Entertainment. This fall, her New Line Cinema movie, Raise Your Voice, featuring both “Fly” and “Someone’s Watching Over Me” from the new album, hit theaters Oct. 8.

Hilary starred in last summer’s hit movie A Cinderella Story that grossed 30 million dollars in less than two weeks. The top 10 Hollywood Record soundtrack featured “Our Lips Are Sealed,” Hilary and her sister Haylie’s cover of the Go-Go’s song. Duff set an audience record on ABC’s Good Morning America show in July when she performed before an estimated 7,000 people in Manhattan’s Bryant Park.

“Music is so personal to me. I can be myself, and say what I want to say,” she says. “I feel I’m honest and don’t try to hide things. But music enables people to learn about my personality, how I’m evolving. Even if I don’t feel comfortable talking about something, I can feel comfortable expressing that same thing through my music.”

Hilary and Haylie’s voices are also featured in Miramax Home Entertainment’s November 23 animated DVD and video release “In Search Of Santa.” Universal Pictures’ A Perfect Man, with Hilary and Heather Locklear, comes out summer 2005.

With all that has been going on in Hilary Duff’s life over the past 18 months, it’s amazing she found the time to write and record a new album.

Even with that kind of nonstop schedule, Hilary still makes sure to give back to those less fortunate. As a charter member of the Kids With a Cause organization, Hilary sponsored a “Food for a Friend” drive that collected canned foods brought to her show in each city to feed more than 22,000 youngsters at shelters around the country.

Duff came to prominence in 2001 as the star of Disney’s “Lizzie McGuire television series. Her film credits include starring roles in the “Lizzie McGuire Movie,” “Agent Cody Banks,” “Cheaper By The Dozen,” and “A Cinderella Story.

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