Sarah Brightman has been working with her former husband, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, on a song she can perform in space.

The British soprano, who is training at Star City near Moscow, is due to blast off on a Russian Soyuz craft on the 1st September 2015, spending 10 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), 260 miles (420 km) above Earth. Sarah Brightman said singing in space was a “very different” proposition to performing on Earth.

Speaking at a press conference in central London, the former Phantom of the Opera star said her team were trying to work out the technical details of performing on the ISS: “I would like to connect with a choir, or children or another singer or an orchestra on Earth. To sing in microgravity is a very different thing to singing down here……….We use the Earth to ground ourselves when we sing and the air around us.”

Sarah Brightman is believed to be paying around £34m ($51m) to become the eighth space tourist. She said she had paid for the space voyage herself, but could not “contractually” say how much it had cost. She will be part of a three-person crew travelling to the ISS. The last space tourist to make the trip was Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte in 2009.

In 2013, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s rendition of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” from the ISS became a massive hit on YouTube. Sarah Brightman explained that she had been working with Andrew Lloyd-Webber to find a song that “suits the idea of space”. She joked that while in space she might “do some of the movements” from her 1978 chart hit “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper”, which she performed memorably with Hot Gossip on Top of the Pops.

Here are some suggestions of songs Sarah Brightman could sing in space in this Record Press Top 10 Space Songs –

Top 10 Space Songs

1)  Sarah Brightman – I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper ( 1978 )

2)  David Bowie – Space Oddity ( 1969 / 1975 )

3)  Hawkwind – Silver Machine ( 1972 )

4)  David Bowie – Life On Mars ( 1973 )

5)  Elton John – Rocket Man ( 1972 )

6)  David Bowie – Starman ( 1972 )

7)  Babylon Zoo – Spaceman ( 1996 )

8)  David Bowie – Moonage Daydream ( 1972 )

9)  Chris De Burgh – A Spaceman Came Travelling ( 1976 )

10) Carpenters – Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft ( 1978 )

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