I am thrilled for the movies success!
Happy for all involved, the 62-year-oldtweetedTuesday.
However, I do want my royalty fee for the lyrics I added to IM HERE.'

LaChanze
I am thrilled for the movies success!
Happy for all involved.
However, I do want my royalty fee for the lyrics I added to IM HERE.

The song is the climax of Celies journey and the musical itself and a declaration of her personal empowerment.
LaChanze won a Tony for her performance, and Im Here was a key part of that.
But she described her part in it in arecent interviewwith Time.
I said, I wanna flirt with somebody, I know I got my sister.
She cant be with me.
So I like to say I helped write the song.
Deadline reached out to the studio and will update this story with any comment received.