Tori Kelly on new album ‘TORI’: “I’m stepping into my power and owning my craft”
nme.comTori Kelly has spoken to NME about her fifth studio album ‘TORI’, saying that she finally feels like she is “owning [her] craft” and living her dreams.Last Friday (March 22), the California singer-songwriter was in London working on the soundtrack for a popular TV show, which has yet to be disclosed to the public.
Speaking to NME, she reminisced on the fact that four years to the day, she was in the capital for the UK leg of what was supposed to be her first-ever world tour.
However, the rapid rise in COVID cases in March 2020 forced her to cancel the remaining dates of the trek.After the worldwide lockdown, Kelly released the R&B-tinged ‘Solitude’ EP as well as the festive ‘A Tori Kelly Christmas’ album in 2020.
She said in a press release that she was mentally in “a new era” during that time – which has culminated in the highly-awaited ‘TORI’.“I embarked on making this album a few years ago – it’s pretty much four years in the making,” Kelly told NME. “I had gone to the studio after just putting out all these personal and sad songs [about what I was going] through in my personal life.
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