//Jennifer Hudson Covers Billboard Magazine + New Promo Pics//

Jennifer Hudson brings her Oscar-winning glow to the cover of this week’s Billboard magazine. In the issue, she talks about the release of her long awaited debut album, working on movies and music, and what her album will be all about. Check out an excerpt from the article:

“Jennifer Hudson” defies classifying and will offer up everything from pop to R&B to gospel.

“We are intent on being true to her, but at the same time to establish that she is a recording star,” Davis says. “She has the ability, she has the youth, she has the range, she has the awareness.”

Jackson says the album came together during the course of a year after “really making a true, concerted effort not to push her in a contrived, young kind of direction. We could easily do a trendy, faceless, interchangeable kind of record, and I can say proudly that we stayed away from what could be a cliche with her.”

In the end, the theme of the album is simple: play to the crowd. “Jennifer Hudson” features a gospel tribute to her days in the church choir with a rendition of “Jesus Promised Me a Home Over There” and a track that Diane Warren penned for the singer’s lung-busting balladeer side, “You Pull Me Through.” The album will also include the classic “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from “Dreamgirls” and “All Dressed in Love” from the recent “Sex and the City” soundtrack.

“It is risky, because people expect you to just do one thing,” Hudson says. “I’m going to take the chance and show what else is a part of me.”

The album will be in stores September 30.

Check out some gorgeous promo pics for the album:

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