It’s been eight years since Gwen Stefani‘s last solo album, 2006’s The Sweet Escape, but the wait may soon be over for new music from the newly minted Voice coach. In a panel at New York’s Advertising Week on Monday (Sept. 29), Stefani’s manager Irving Azoff revealed that the 44-year-old singer is currently in Miami, recording new tracks with frequent collaborator (and Voice co-star) Pharrell Williams. Next week, Azoff added, Stefani will determine which track will be the lead single, which she plans to perform on The Voice later in the season.
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The fresh details come on the heels of an August interview in which Interscope chairman John Janick told Billboard that Stefani was hustling to finish a new album for release by December, “on the back of her role on The Voice. Benny Blanco will executive produce, and it will come out in partnership with his label [Mad Love Records] as part of our overall deal with him,” Janick said, noting that British group Rixton‘s forthcoming full-length will also be issued via Blanco’s Mad Love.
Sources say Stefani has been simultaneously working on new material for a new No Doubt record, the follow-up to 2012’s Push and Shove. The band just played New York’s Global Citizen Festival over the weekend, re-teaming with Sting for a reprise of the “Message in a Bottle” cover they first performed together during the 2002 Super Bowl.
Stefani has also been busy in another role: motherhood, following the birth of her third son with husband Gavin Rossdale, Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale, in March.