For HLN’s Robin Meade, singing in front of thousands of people comes much more naturally than delivering the news every morning on her show, “Morning Express.”

Meade, who grew up singing in her church, is now busy at work on a follow-up to her debut album “Brand New Day.”  The veteran morning anchor recently sat down for a “Media Beat” interview and discussed how performing has prepared her for a career in news.  Since singing is so important to who Meade is, we thought we’d post a quick video of her belting out some tunes…

Here’s the first part of our three-part interview with Meade in which she discusses the role of music in her life…

Part 2: ‘I Won’t Even Make a Face Twitch That Someone Might Interpret as Having an Opinion’

Part 3: Robin Meade Cleans Up ‘Dirty Laundry’