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Fittingly, she titled her 2018 debut album “I Love My Mom.” Her mother painted the cover artwork for that album and the new one.ĭe Souza said a series of existential crises during her late teens inspired the songs on her first record.
While De Souza was content to simply write and record her music, she credits her mother for pushing past her reluctance to perform. “I also now realize bandmates are always going to shift and people will not always be able to be on the journey with me, so I have to hold my own as the main character.” “I have always been such a heavy songwriter, and so I think I knew I would always want to be in control of the songs we were playing,” she said. But as bandmates came and went, De Souza leaned into playing all the instruments herself to lay the foundations of her songs and take the path of a solo artist.
I was just kinda destined for Asheville, in a way, and it just took me a while to get here.”ĭe Souza was 16 when her mom moved them both to Asheville and, the following year, fell in love and moved in with a man in his 20s. Through him, she met older, more experienced musicians. My mom wouldn’t buy me the lunchables that everyone else had.
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“On top of that, my skin was different from other people’s skin. “Even just that, her picking me up from school in the truck, is enough to set me apart from everybody else,” she said. She recalls her mom driving a truck with Barbie dolls and action figures glued around the body, flames along one side and depictions of bombings along the other. “And then I switched over to realizing that if I were just to be 100 percent honest about what I’m feeling when I write songs, that would allow other people to find space to connect to each other and to me and give them space to process their emotions, if I were to be honest about mine.”ĭe Souza grew up sharing a house with her mother, mostly in Spruce Pine. “When I was younger, I was writing things I thought other people would like to hear, because that’s what I thought songs were, something you write so people feel entertained,” she said. Her second full-length album is titled “Any Shape You Take.” Her album-release shows are Aug. “Like even the chords on keyboard, I’m not classically trained, but I can just hear the notes and follow my intuition.”Īt 24 years old, De Souza has already earned a fanbase internationally for her signature collision of upbeat music and downbeat lyrics. “If I have an idea, it doesn’t matter how long it takes me to get that idea out, I just need to figure it out,” she said. This is where De Souza’s DIY musical expressions begin taking shape. Crammed into a small, quiet space upstairs, there are guitars, keyboards and a couple of weather-beaten drums. Friends come over to chill in the wide-open former worship hall downstairs. This church-turned-residence, in Madison County, is where De Souza has lived since January. And this is an image of the church, this church.” “Like this one is a drawing I did when I was little. I did this one, this one and this one,” she said, pointing around her legs. “I stick and poke a lot of them, just with a needle and ink. Of the more than dozen tattoos along her legs, arms and hands, several came from her own hand. Indigo De Souza could be a spokeswoman for the DIY ethos.
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