Why Kate Hudson Says Being an Aries with 'Butterfly Feet' Makes Her and Gemini Fiancé Perfect Coworkers (Exclusive)

The actress-singer says working on her debut album ‘Glorious’ with fiancé Danny Fujikawa was “magic”

Kate Hudson has found sweet harmony working with her fiancé.

The actress-singer will release her debut album Glorious on Friday, May 17, and she actually collaborated with her partner Danny Fujikawa on it.

“I made him do it, so it wasn't like he had a choice!” Hudson, 45, says of Fujikawa, 37, in this week’s PEOPLE cover story.

Fujikawa, who was formerly in the rock band Chief, is credited for co-writing and co-producing much of Hudson’s record, alongside the legendary songwriter Linda Perry.

“Danny is an amazing producer, and he's an amazing songwriter, but he hadn't been in music for 10 years,” Hudson says. “I knew he knew what I needed and he could execute it. He took the album and really honed in on the sound. And it was wonderful because I really defer to him for a lot of things, especially the language of music.”

Hudson and Fujikawa were longtime family friends before they began dating in 2017. He popped the question in 2021, and Hudson has said they’d like to get married “soon.” And the pair were an impressive match when it came to making music. (They share daughter Rani, 5, and Hudson is also mom to sons Ryder, 20, and Bingham, 12, from past relationships.)

“I'm an Aries. I have butterfly feet. I am just like, ‘OK, I have to go to. I have to be somewhere else other than this room.’ And Danny can sit in a room for 24 hours and not even know it's been 24 hours. There's just very specific types of people in engineering, mixing, producing that can do that, and he's just that guy,” Hudson says of her Gemini fiancé.

“So I felt very lucky to be able to go make the kids dinner and then pop my head in and be like, ‘Is there anything I need to listen to yet?’ So it was great … When you can work really well together like that, it feels like magic when it's happening. Sometimes you meet writing partners that just, your strong suits are different. So Danny's ability to structure a song and mine to write lyrics and melody really are complementary to each other.”

The result of their efforts: a 12-song collection with songs as classic and effortlessly cool as Hudson herself.

Music has of course shaped Hudson’s life in more ways than one. She got her big break as an actress — and scored an Oscar nomination — playing band groupie Penny Lane in writer-director Cameron Crowe’s 2000 music drama Almost Famous.

“Kate should have led with music — she is such a rock star,” collaborator Perry says of Hudson, who “reminds me of old rock and roll. We talked about making a record that Penny Lane would have made. I believe it was captured.”

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