In Fiona Ross' new single, "Let Your Soul Shine," an award-winning performer seizes an all-too-elusive moment of inspiration from a casual stroll through a local market. The result is a track that radiates with a sense of warmth, purpose, and unforced honesty.
Ross, who has made her name crafting genre-bending compositions and singing with poetic frankness, wrote the track, a process that she considers unsettling for its ease. Sometimes the greatest truths don't need to be tortured out. They just come, a message on a hand-lettered sign, "Let Your Soul Shine." That sign, seen at an African arts booth on a stroll, became more than mere decoration, it was the spark. Drawn to the same exact spot twice, Ross interpreted it as a literal and spiritual sign to listen more closely. Hours later, she was at her piano, and the song came pouring out, unfiltered and unedited as it sounds today.
"Let Your Soul Shine" glistens with a signature cocktail of Fiona's sophisticated jazz sense, soul-drenched vocals, and revealing lyricism. It's an unassuming anthem for the unassumingly powerful, the sort of person who might not see their brilliance, but whose every step unwittingly lights up the room around them.
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