“That's what I'm becoming now: a more mature, intelligent woman, that knows she can fail, but is also beautiful, and can be herself.”īefore this journey, Morrison worried she couldn’t explore new sounds or styles. “That's when everything hit me,” she says. Exploring the museums of Paris led to a study of Renaissance era paintings in Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, she saw herself. In this period of taking personal inventory, she gained strength in her own self-image, and finally came to believe that she is beautiful. A lot was coming to mind.” Taking jazz singing classes at a music conservatory was a jolt of humility she didn’t know she needed the improvisation techniques she mastered became central in shaping vocals for her new material. So I was in silence a lot, and I heard a lot of my thoughts. The early days of studying French helped: “You can’t really have a conversation. What’s most important is that the time and space apart from her home country afforded her room to think and to grow. To say the City of Lights illuminated the path to a rebirth isn’t quite accurate, though, because it was Morrison herself who put in the work necessary to grow.
My hobbies were music, and then that safe place eventually wasn't safe anymore.” “I was living to everybody's expectations, but not mine,” she recalls. A wholly unfamiliar place would demand growth, right? Morrison went big on this hope-she relocated to Paris. In 2018, Morrison considered how a change of scenery might shift her outlook. Her new songs reflect the labor of a self-discovery journey in them she shares its fruits too, so that anyone who hears her messages might also find their own route to happiness. Now stronger than ever, Morrison is following fresh ambitions with confidence. She needed a chance to find herself again, and so she intentionally paused everything- social media, music-making, touring. It felt overwhelming.”Īddressing her collapsing mental and emotional state was a life-or-death matter. Being a highly sensitive person, it was just a lot. “I would find myself thinking very often that I wanted to die.
“For the longest time, I questioned the purpose of my existence, when I was in the middle of my success,” she says. An amalgam of persistent opinions and criticism from both the industry and listeners, her own gut feelings-those internal nudges toward one direction or another, the inner validation that you’re doing the right thing-had been silenced altogether. In 2017, there came a point when an inner voice of fear was all Morrison could hear. Today, she’s still making music on her own terms-only now, those terms have changed. You don't feel like you're entitled to rest.” “You always feel so grateful, and you always feel so guilty. “It’s just kind of the Latino way,” the Tecate, Baja California-born musician says. Taking the outdoor stage at Coachella, sharing a bill with rock giants Enjambre at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes and filling to capacity as headliner the city’s famed Auditorio Nacional, opening for tours in Spain, Latin America, and a sold-out stretch of U.S. Snowballing from her 2010 debut Mientras Tú Dormías, onto 2012’s Déjenme Llorar and the 2016 release of Amor Supremo, her success grew rapidly. Raw retellings of emotional, personal heartbreaks are the bedrock of Morrison’s material, and this honest approach earned her multiple Grammy noms and Latin Grammy wins over the course of five albums. This choice was critical patiently refocusing may have saved her life. These past few years, she’s intentionally centered herself-learning who she’s been and who she wants to be, and culling empowerment from both. Acclaimed singer-songwriter Carla Morrison is coming back to music brand new.
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