Los Angeles – Los Angeles (AP) – Kali Uchis He wrote the album that knew his future I would need to listen. Grammy’s winning artist, without knowing it, was elaborating her own audible remedy.
“I really made the music I needed for my grieving process, for the place where I am in my life at this time,” he says about the album on Friday.
“Sincerely”, (yes, the title includes the coma) began as a collection of letters for itself, friends and loved ones, but acquired a deeper meaning as the American Colombian composer He gave birth to his first child and prosecuted his mother’s recent death. The first single, “Sunshine AND The rain … “includes a clip of Uchis’s mother that says:” Good morning, sun. “
“I wanted to immortalize it in the project,” said Uchis. “I thought it was a beautiful way to open the album.”
The 14 -track album finds Uchis proudly carrying his heart in his sleeve with songs like “Daggers!”, Where Uchis encourages a close friend to bow in self -love, or “Ilysmih”, which includes Baby Coos at the beginning and was written while lying in her hospital bed with her newborn.
Uchis hopes that after listening to their fifth complete album, fans feel more connected with themselves and more in contact with their emotions: “I hope you give them some kind of comfort.”
This interview has been edited and condensed by clarity.
Uchis: I am a very deep feeling. I am very empathic. I feel a lot. And I wanted to do a job that would completely show that vulnerability and that actually deepened in my heart in a way that none of my other albums had.
I felt that I was ready to do that because I have been making music enough time for I felt that it was that moment for me, and then it happened that, shortly after working on the album, I became pregnant, which was such an important part of being able to feel even deeper than ever.
Uchis: It is crazy because many times I feel, and especially with this particular album, I felt that I really made music that my future self would need, that I did not realize that I was going to need at that time.
The album is actually dedicated to my mother. Later, my mother ended up being diagnosed, and is no longer here. … and so practically all the songs ended up having a deeper meaning for me for that and for being dedicated to it. … At that time, I might not have unconsciously noticed that I was doing all this to cure me.
Uchis: At one time, I thought: “I will make sure that each of these songs is how, this is my letter to the world, this is my letter to this person, this letter is to that, it is for me.” I tried to really conceptualize in a different way that I have never done when doing any other album. And then … when my mother died, much of what I had left of her are letters that wrote me, and so I finished, as I said, only more and more reasons to realize that it was the right title for the project.
Uchis: I never attached to a process, but a particular process that caught my attention in many of the songs was that most of them were written without music, only songs that came to me.
For example, “Ilysmih”, which was literally recovering from work, my son was sleeping by my side; I was still in my hospital’s bed when I had this idea for this song and I started it, I began to record it on my phone, I started writing some lyrics. … there is one called “everything I can say.” I wrote all that song on the way to the studio. … I try to make the beauty of all my experiences.
Uchis: Thematically, nature is a recurring theme in my music because I am very inspired by nature and I feel that nature is where God exists and nature is where much of my creativity thrives.
I feel it simply happened. Then, I even thought: “Is this too similar to what I have already done?” But … I love the things I love, and I just returned to those nostalgic elements. I can branch and try what people think they are different sounds. As in “orchids” I also did a lot of genres in “without fear (of love and other demons)”, but for me, that is still nostalgic because it is still music that I grew up listening.
I return a lot to things that are central memories for me. It is relaxing for my nervous system. I am the person who looks at the same episodes of my favorite television programs again and again, … I think that is what makes it beautiful is to see evolution and knowing that it is still true for me. It is still faithful to my roots in music and where I started, but an evolved version.
Uchis: After death, one of the first things I did was to go through all the audio messages that I had sent me and I was just listening to all his messages, wanting to hear his voice. When I heard that, I only thought of: “Oh, how perfect is this that the song is called ‘Sunshine ANDRain …, ‘And she had said: “Good morning, Sun.” It was for my son who sent that message. I thought it was a beautiful way to open the album, considering that it is dedicated to it.
I struggled with whether I wanted to share or not because I am a very, very private person. So I fought a lot if I even wanted to share that my mother was no longer here, but I felt that I simply did not have to be afraid of that vulnerability and not pretend that I did not affect me or did not have any kind of impact on me when I had a great impact on me and still does. And he also wanted to honor her and honor her life in a way through the art that I know she would have loved and of which she would have been proud.
