Los Angeles - Jennifer Aniston is to take on one of her first singing roles since acting school, she revealed in an interview with People magazine.

The former star of Friends said she will star in The Goree Girls, a film about a real-life 1940s country-music group formed by female prison inmates.

"It won't be bad," said the 40-year-old actress. "I can carry a tune."

She considered herself lucky that the original singers in the band didn't sound that great.

"Here's the good news. The band: they weren't musicians. They basically created a band in prison in order to get paroled. So you're dealing with new singing voices and new instrument playing, and somehow they find a way and become a huge phenomenon. It's a true story." (dpa)