India Arie: I was born in love with music. When did you first fall in love with music? Not everything will work, but some things will, and you have to try.ĮBONY: Music literally saved your life. If you have to take 3 years away, do it and then come back. If you have to sleep all day, and get up the next day, you keep trying. There is no secret, you try and never stop trying. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.ĮBONY: What’s the secret to being so resilient and bouncing back from difficulties? And I find, for me, it’s a little bit at a time, and eventually it’s barely there.
India Arie: Your work is to find healing. Having an outlet, it really makes a difference.ĮBONY: What advice would you give to those who are suffering from an abusive or painful situation? Also, my music plays a big role in my thriving. SO MANY PEOPLE have been abused, it’s not rare, it’s a VERY common human experience, and we survive. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you just DO. India Arie: I managed because of my mother. So sharing that was deeper, LOL! Anybody want to buy a house?ĮBONY: You’re an abuse survivor and had a very difficult childhood, how did you manage to not only stay alive, but thrive after going through such trauma? But I realized during that three-day shoot, it’s not my house anymore. The LESS natural part was letting people into my house LOL! But as you’ll see on Being, I am moving out of my house, which was really, my most important relationship.
INDIA ARIE SONGS 2017 FREE
That year I decided I wanted to be FREE to be me, and not who I was TOLD I needed to be.
India Arie: It was less of a decision and more of being in alignment with where I have been since 2009. LaToya CrossĮBONY: Why did you decide to tell your story on Being? What do you hope people get from watching the show? “A tumultuous childhood” led the soulful singer, songwriter and poet to find her voice and emerge on the music scene with inspiring lyrics, “Not your average girl in the video, my worth is not determined by the price of my clothes.” Now, six albums later and a triumphant story to share, the Denver-bred artist is preparing new music and can be heard on various podcasts such as Robin Roberts’ Everybody’s Got Something, where she also performs the theme song, and you can watch her doing a Songversation, called “SongVersation WORTHY” on Oprah’s new website.ĮBONY caught up with the multiple Grammy Award-winning soul bird ahead of her Centric premiere of Being to discuss life, getting through the storm and creating music. On the surface, you wouldn’t think that this light of positivity and messenger of self worth experienced the trauma detailed in her revealing episode of Centric’s Being. In 2019, she returned to gorgeous form with Worthy, a clutch of emotional, inspiring acoustic songs.India Arie’s voice floats like silk whenever she releases a note. Instead, Arie has stuck to her truth and shown just how versatile she is, collaborating with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, the Turkish singer Sezen Aksu, and country band Rascal Flatts (2006’s “Summer” is a fast-moving, rootsy revelation).
Her sophomore effort, 2002’s Voyage to India, was similarly successful-but Arie struggled through the ensuing years with industry veterans who urged her to mute her messages. Their investment paid off when her debut album, 2001’s Acoustic Soul, took off on the strength of the female-empowerment anthem “Video.” Though less hip-hop-aligned than some of her neo-soul contemporaries, Arie spoke to fans hungry for authenticity the album was certified double platinum within months. She was invited to play at the Lilith Fair in 1998-the same year that Lauryn Hill released her smash solo debut-and Motown signed her soon after, no doubt eager to mimic Hill’s success. With her acoustic sound and preternaturally warm and welcoming voice, Arie quickly found community in the Groovement art collective in the 1990s. She didn’t take music seriously until after high school, when she began playing guitar. Born India Arie Simpson in Denver in 1975, Arie lived there until her parents divorced she moved to Atlanta with her mother at age 13. India.Arie is not only a singer/songwriter in the vein of ’70s heroes like Bill Withers and Roberta Flack but also a spiritual seeker who invites fans along on her healing journeys, and it’s this balance between self-revelation and artistry that has won her a devoted following.
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