Cody Simpson update - ready for the next stage of his career

Already a big name in the US, Simpson has split with his record label there and is soon to release a duets album with pop superstar Justin Bieber. “Everything is going well at the moment,” Simpson told Confidential on the phone from his Los Angeles home. “Things are picking up. It is just like I’m on the edge of a new phase in my career and I’m starting to fall into my own, musically and creatively.” Cody Simpson feels he is ready for the next phase of his career ... at the ripe old age of 17. He continued, confirming he had parted ways with America’s Warner/Atlantic Records but said it was too early to “make any announcements just yet” on his new label. “I just actually finalised leaving my record label, I’d been trying to do that for a little while,” he said. “I’m moving over somewhere else. It was just time for me to find a new home and a new team and a new fresh set of hands on my project and a vision that matched my own.” Simpson burst onto the international charts at the age of 14 with breakthrough single Pretty Brown Eyes, in 2011. He and Bieber share a manager in Scooter Braun. Simpson shares a manager with Justin Bieber in Scooter Braun. The pair will release an original album by November. “It is a smack bang duets (album),” he explained. “Justin has been a good mate of mine for a while. Its just us writing. He told me he felt like I’d figured myself out and have grown into what he knows I will be so he was like, ‘I see you as that guitarist, singer songwriter you’ve always wanted to be’. I play all the guitars on the album.” As for Bieber’s bad boy reputation, Simpson said: “I can’t speak for him. I don’t get involved in any kind of drama, we are definitely different people and come from different places and different worlds but as far as to me, he has always been extremely cool and generous.” After that collaboration, Simpson, who recently competed on Dancing With The Stars America, will record a new solo offering for early next year. “That is going to very much be a big step for me musically,” he said. “It is tough, I’m definitely just kinda hitting the reset button and going back to my roots.” Simpson hasn’t been home to Australia since Christmas. He’ll be guest of honour as he performs with the Australian Girls Choir on board Carnival Cruise Lines’ Carnival Legend ship as it sails into Sydney for the first time on September 22. Fans can win a chance to be in the audience by registering via facebook.com/CarnivalOz. “We’ll do a few live songs up on the deck,” he said, adding that his must do’s in Australia include “eating a meat pie and catching up with my mates”. “I’m just looking forward to being home, there’s no other feeling like it because I am always travelling.” He’s also vowed to return when he turns 18 in January. The legal drinking age in the US is 21. “I am definitely without a doubt going to celebrate my 18th back home, I”m really looking forward to it,” he said. On a personal note, Simpson is “single at the moment”, having recently dated American model Gigi Haddad.

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