Singer-songwriter Rebecca Parks takes on a life of her own in the performance and shares a lived experience through music with her single, "Part of Me." On her latest album "Secret Stage," which gently documents the small victories of recovery and revelation that followed a tough few years for her, this heartfelt folk track manages to feel intimate while reaching for something grander, co-mingling personal narrative with universal truth.
The song is centered around Parks's extraordinary path as an artist who took up fingerstyle guitar at 45, now revelling in her most genuine creative phase. "Part of Me" is an anthem to resilience, to gratitude, and the ties that bind. Penned in honor of her best friend, who donated her kidney when Parks' own inherited kidney disease finally caught up with her, the song has a deeply personal weight that's impossible to ignore.
Parks's voice is raised by a spread of harmonies, and accomplished violinist Mads Tolling contributes layers of texture that finesse the folk foundation into something closer to country grace. Her partnership with her husband, Gary Parks, adds an extra dimension to her life. Their love story is gently woven into the music's fabric, infusing the track with sincerity. In a world clamorous with flash and dazzle, Rebecca Parks reminds us about the quiet power of truth.