I started writing music after graduating high school. In fact, the first original song that I knew was one my mother wrote for me to learn the days of the week when I was a child. My mother was a singer, Motown wanted to sign her. In the South, evangelists are synonymous with singing. Most of my mother’s side of the family sang and wrote songs or were preachers or evangelists. Music has always been a part of my life, an ancestral thing for me. But I never felt like I had to be in the music industry, but I understand now that it’s the vehicle for my message and, you know, the more people you reach, the more people you reach.As told to Kindra Hall Four-time Grammy Award-winning R&B legend I feel like I’m always gonna sing and write songs because it’s me. “I just decided I wasn’t gonna do the music industry. “There’s several months where I was retired,” she told Oprah. She closed out the 10-slide message by thanking those who “hurt, “used,” “SUED,” “played,” “Stole from,” and “betrayed” while also giving them the middle finger.Īrie, who’s won several Grammys and NAACP awards, spoke to Oprah in 2013 on an episode of “Super Soul Sunday,” where she admitted that she contemplated leaving the music industry several times. And exponentially SOULFUL!” She added that her “MOST POWERFUL DAYS ARE STILL TO COME!” (Photo: to reflect on her journey and deciding to focus on the positive outcome of her negative experience, she said, “I HAVE GROWN FREE! And MORE Beautiful. India Arie speaks out about the music industry.

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