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Subject: Chynna Phillips Relaunches Her Music Career Amid a Family Crisis

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Juli

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Date Posted: 19:02:08 09/30/09 Wed

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Phillips is getting through her family�s crisis thanks to prayer and the support of actor Billy Baldwin, her husband of 14 years. (The secret to their longevity? "It sounds so clich� but you�ve got to communicate and be willing to walk through the fire because it�s not always easy," she says.) Phillips had originally set out to do her own album, but it was Baldwin, 46, who came up with the idea for her to team with Penn, named New Music Weekly�s "Top 40 Breakthrough Artist of the Year" in 2007. The singers had been introduced by Phillips's former stepfather, director Grainger Hines.

When Phillips told Baldwin she liked his idea, "His little feathers were very proud for about a month," she says with a laugh. "I let him have his moment of glory." Baldwin executive produced One Reason, and Phillips says they grew closer as a couple during the process. "We had something in common outside of the kids which is important for every married couple," she says. "For him, it�s his baby. He told me he is prouder of this than any project he�s ever worked on."

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Phillips first became a Christian as a teenager. "I started hanging out with the wrong crowd, and one day when I was 19 or 20, I woke up and realized I had lost my way and had to make some major adjustments and put God first."

Years later, after she and Baldwin moved to suburban Westchester County, New York, she reconnected with her faith. "I remember saying to God, 'I am ready to devote my entire life to serving you so please make yourself crystal clear on what path you want me to take.' Two or three days later, Stephen Baldwin � Billy�s brother, who is really on fire for Jesus � came over and prayed over me and I felt the power again come through me, but this time it was like a turbo engine. I realized my path."

Among her happiest moments? When she is in church with her husband, "an evolving Christian," and her children. "It�s really beautiful to be there with my family."

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Her longtime pal and former Wilson Phillips groupmate Carnie Wilson "heard a few of the songs and loved them," says Phillips, who tours from time to time with Carnie and her sister Wendy, the third member of the trio. "We love singing together," she says. "It�s something we want to do for the rest of our lives."

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20309170,00.html

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