| True Star | |
| Endorsed By: | Tommy Hilfiger |
| Type: | Women's fragrance |
| Released: | 2004 |
| Successor: | Tommy Girl |
True Star is a fragrance endorsed by American fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger released in 2004. The release was followed with a revised version of Beyoncé Knowles' original cover of "Wishing on a Star" and a limited edition EP also titled True Star: A Private Performance. The fragrance's commercial shows the singer Beyoncé Knowles singing a capella the song. Knowles was a poster girl of the perfume. She received $250,000 for this campaign.[1] True Star was followed by one additional release, the True Star Gold.
In 2005, the fragrance True Star won a FiFi Award for Best New Fragrance Commercial.[2]
| True Star: A Private Performance | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | Beyoncé |
| Cover: | Beyoncé - True Star - A Private Performance.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Genre: | R&B |
| Prev Title: | Dangerously in Love |
| Prev Year: | 2003 |
| Next Title: | Live at Wembley |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
True Star: A Private Performance is a two-track extended play (EP) by American singer-songwriter Beyoncé. Produced by herself and Tommy Hilfiger, it was released exclusively in 2004, solely available with limited edition purchases of her fragrance by Hilfiger entitled True Star.[3] The EP's packaging consists of a fold-out digipak picture sleeve, including advertisement for the perfume and a built in picture booklet with lyrics for "Wishing on a Star". The EP was only released as a five-inch CD single, usually included with the purchase of the preceding EP's perfume.[4]
The EP consists of two tracks.[3] "Wishing on a Star" was originally covered by Beyoncé Knowles in 2004, for the live album Live at Wembley.[5] The song was than used to promote the Tommy Hilfiger fragrance.[6] In 2005, the song was included on the soundtrack of the movie Roll Bounce.[7] At the 48th Grammy Awards (2006), Knowles' version was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.[8] Knowles released the song as a promotional single on August 17, 2010.[9] The song that appears on the EP was credited originally from Live at Wembley.[10]
The song "Naïve", which is a duet between Solange Knowles and Beyoncé, featuring Da Brat, was included on Solange Knowles' debut studio album Solo Star (2002) as the twenty-first track, tentatively untitled.[11]
Credits adapted from the EP's liner notes.[3] [10]