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Mishell Ivon, Jerome Brooks Jr., and Leyla Romanova deliver a new release, “My Sun,” which starts with a childhood memory that never faded, a trip to a cinema in Baku, where she watched Chris Columbus’s Stepmom with her mother and grandmother at just 10 years old. The movie itself was an intense experience, but one scene will forever be carved in her mind, Susan Sarandon and the children dancing with pure joy to “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. There was a warmth and a release of emotions in that moment that stayed with her for years and eventually inspired the song.
When love finally came into her life, Leyla Romanova found herself back to that same feeling she had as a child, that nothing in the world could come between two people who were meant for each other. That emotional place is where the melody and lyrics for the track came from, and it is a song about devotion that is undeterred by distance, fear, or circumstance. She always pictured the song as a duet, because of the timeless chemistry between the two voices she fell in love with in that unforgettable movie scene.
The best examples of the song are the performances by Mishell Ivon and Jerome Brooks Jr. Their voices bring an extraordinary warmth and sincerity to the song. It's very natural how these two singers find each other during the performance, as if the song had been waiting for them long before it was recorded. The chemistry between them makes the song more emotional, where tenderness dances with energy, turning it into a celebration of love that is both cinematic and deeply human.