Ritchie Blackmore’s six year-old daughter sings on new album

Deep Purple star Ritchie Blackmore made his new album a family affair by inviting his six-year-old daughter sing on it.
The British heavy rock icon and his wife Candice Night, who formed Blackmore’s Night in 1997, recently released To The Moon And Back: 20 Years And Beyond…, and one of the songs, Ghost Of John, features the couple’s daughter Autumn’s vocals.
Blackmore reveals Autumn actually inspired the track, based on American folk song Have You Seen the Ghost of John.
“She came home from school one day and she was singing it, and I thought, ‘What a great melody’,” the Rainbow founder tells Billboard. “We actually got it from her, and that’s why you’ll hear her on the record at the end, singing it how she originally sang it to us. It’s a very strange song…”
Blackmore reveals his little girl was a natural in the recording booth and she really put her own spin on the tune.
“We put her on the microphone and the first take she did was this very big sort of Broadway style and she was belting the whole thing out and we were like, ‘No, no, no, just be you’,” he says. “So the next one she did with all these Mariah Carey flares to it, and we said, ‘No, no, no, don’t do that either.’
“Finally she said, ‘OK, this’ll be the simplest take I’m gonna do’, and she just did it and it was perfect and we got goosebumps immediately and it was exactly what we were looking for to bring it back to the starting point of what the song was. So it was a perfect moment.”