Anna Tingley From sound engineers and screenwriters to celebrity makeup artists and stylists, Variety’s series “Ask an Insider” asks top professionals within the entertainment industry to share their must-have essentials, for work … and for play.
In this installment, singer and songwriter Hayley Kiyoko, currently on tour for her sophomore album “Panorama,” talks about how she keeps up her energy for performances, her self care routines and everything she brings on tour.
Hayley Kiyoko gets more vulnerable than ever in her sophomore album “Panorama.” If her debut album “Expectations” is a celebration of queerness packed with dance floor bops, then her most recent project can be considered an unwrapping of some of the pain that was still hiding under the surface — the product of more than a year of therapy, reading, self-care and songwriting that has led the 31-year-old singer to feel healthier than she ever has before. “Writing this album ‘Panorama’ was really helpful in just navigating where I am today,” Kiyoko tells Variety. “It’s like a big love letter to myself because it just reminds me to just stay present and to take in the view at every point in my life.
Even if I have more goals and dreams and aspirations, there’s so much that I can celebrate.” Although she’s learned to be easier on herself over the past year (she cites Don Miguel Ruiz’s “The Voice of Knowledge” as a guiding force in her mental health journey), she hasn’t necessarily slowed down.
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