(Em)Power Breakfast Pictures

Idina attended the 2014 (Em)Power Breakfast earlier today where she was one of the honorees. Here’s some info about the event. Click the thumbnails below to see pictures.

On October 15, 2014, more than 600 guests joined us in celebrating the more than 2,200 girls served by The Young Women’s Leadership Schools (TYWLS) in New York City this year.

The 2014 (Em)Power Breakfast honored our students and their achievements. We are grateful to this year’s honorees for representing the confidence and determination we cultivate in every TYWLS girl. The 2014 Breakfast honored:

+ Idina Menzel, Tony Award-winning Broadway star and Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated singer
+ Dina Powell, President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, Global Head of the Office of Corporate Engagement, and Head of Goldman Sachs Bank USA’s Urban Investment Group
+ Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author
And “The Man We Love:” Andrew Farkas – Chairman and CEO of Island Capital Group

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And more from yesterday, here’s a short video from the Holiday Wishes Signing

‘Holiday Wishes’ Release Day Round-Up

‘Holiday Wishes’ Release Day Round-Up

Barnes&Noble Signing Pictures

More pictures will be uploaded later

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‘Holiday Wishes’ Trailer

TIME Interview

Fun interview, definitely worth the read. Click to read

And don’t forget to take a look at Idina’s new Official Site!

Idina talks her new album | Interview

The Broadway star talks “Let It Go,” Love Actually and her new Christmas album, which she says is out way too early

Winter must really be Idina Menzel’s season. Last year she taught the world how to “Let It Go” as the voice of Elsa in Disney’s Frozen, and on Oct. 14, she’s releasing Holiday Wishes, a Christmas album covering classics from “All I Want For Christmas Is You” to “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” The Broadway veteran, who’s currently starring in the musical If/Then, tells TIME about her holiday plans.

TIME: Have you always wanted to make a Christmas album?
Idina Menzel: My parents split up on Thanksgiving, so holidays can be hard for me. I’ve always felt that Christmas albums were a sensitive thing. To sing happy music in peoples’ faces is sometimes not always the way to go. I wanted to make sure I did something that covered everyone’s experience during the holidays.

The album is mostly Christmas songs, though you’re Jewish.
Most of them were songs that I’ve always wanted to sing. “Do You Hear What I Hear?” is a song Whitney Houston sang back in the ‘80s. Her version is incredible. I’ve always loved that song. If Barbra Streisand can make a Christmas album, I can.

What are your holiday traditions? Continue reading “Idina talks her new album | Interview”

Happy ‘Holiday Wishes’ Release Day!

The day is finally here, ‘Holiday Wishes’ is released today!! Make sure to get your copy wherever you get CDs (remember Target has a special edition) and for most of us international folks, iTunes is the way to go for now. It was already released in Germany a few days ago and the official release date for UK is November 3rd. Check out release dates for other countries here.

If you’re in NY, Idina will be signing copies of ‘Holiday Wishes’ and ‘If/Then’ recording at Barnes&Noble (+ info here). If you go and take pictures and want to share them, send them to flor[at]idina-here.com and let me know how you want to be credited. If/as soon as pictures of the signing are released I’ll be adding to the gallery.

But the CD release isn’t the only news today, Idina’s new Official site is live! Check out her new website at idinamenzel.com
(the featured image in this post is from her new site, make sure to take a look at all the new pretty pictures)

And in much less exciting news, we also have a new design at Idina-Here.com. It’s still a work in progress so please bear with me while I fix all the broken things.

Have you listened to ‘Holiday Wishes’ yet? What do you think of Idina’s new site? Let us know in the comments!

Calling all fan artists!

Calling all fan artists!

The new fan corner with all your amazing meeting Idina stories is almost ready and now I’m starting to rebuild the fan art gallery.

If you enjoy making any kind of Idina related art and sharing it with other fans, send it in!

Any kind of graphics are welcome (wallpapers, icons, social media headers, edits, etc), videos are now accepted too and I’m open to consider other things not mentioned here. Just keep it nice and clean so younger fans can enjoy it too.

Make sure to let me know how you would like to be credited. Nicknames are fine and if you have a website or blog or tumblr or whatever, you can send that too and I’ll link back to your site.

Send all submissions to flor@idina-here.com

I’m still, and always will be, accepting meeting Idina stories. You can send those to the same email. Pictures of your meeting are more than welcome.

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