She's by no means "new." She is new to me. I heard the song "I'll Remember You," and I cried until I had no more tears left to cry. Her work is really raw and powerful. I love her voice and the sentiment behind her words. She has made eight albums so far, the last one titled "The Rain." Many people don't like this style of music because they say it's "depressing." I think it helps to stop and consider sad or negative feelings. We lament about depression. You mention that you suffer from it and four thousand people are there with some trite idiotic nonsense about simply "getting over it." If we could learn how to suffer, how to grieve and accept such negative feelings, perhaps we wouldn't be assualted to the degree that we can't breathe. Trying to repress the fact that we experience a vast array of feelings only causes strife and suffering. The fact is, life is good and bad. Embracing the negative feelings helps us learn how to manage them, and overcome them. Being able to feel the negative side of the paradigm is critical to our enjoyment of the happiness and joy that life has to offer.
Zelmani's music is exactly that: acceptance of the whole. In "I'll Remember You," her words are a bit haunting, but the essence is that we may feel hurt and loss by the loves in our life that did not love us back ~ still, we REMEMBER. The memories of those we have loved are not bitter and painful. It is the ending of those relationships that is bitter and painful. To remember, is to honor the entirety of the experience. Yes, the end hurt, but there was joy and happpiness too. Remember that amidst pain there is joy is part of learning how to live life to its fullest.
I offer you these pieces and hope that you find the healing in your own hearts and lives that you richly deserve.
http://www.sophie-zelmani.com/
Be at peace, it may not feel like it, but love is all around you.
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