Catch her tonight at the Gothic
, her 2021 album, deals with her experiences as a Black LGBTQ+ woman in the South, and the sudden passing of her mother, who drowned in the Tennessee River. She says singing about that tragic loss she experienced as a teenager hasn’t necessarily gotten easier as she’s toured the album more over the past year.
“There'll be a night where I'll sing a song, and at the end I'll get chills from singing it because of remembering that feeling of the song,” she adds. “It kind of ebbs and flows. Most of the time, I'm able to perform the song and just focus on the performance, but every now and again, I'll finish a song and be like, ‘Whoa,’ and kind of get that sort of tension or release feeling from it. … You have those occasional moments of, ‘Oh, God, I might cry.
Songwriting hasn’t necessarily always been such a free-flowing process for Kiah, but while writing and recording, she decided to give in to her mix of musical muses and found herself exploring more unknown areas of blending them into something new. “It took about three years to really fully bring it all together. But I think it was a huge learning lesson for me. I was learning to trust my instincts and follow what really moves me. And if I try something and if it doesn't work out, that's okay — we can try something else,” she says. “I think when it comes to writing songs or even listening to music or wanting to learn a song, I really like to go on that little adventure.
One adventure Kiah’s looking forward to taking listeners on is an upcoming EP of covers that includes renditions of Green Day’s
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