""We were actually writing all those songs in a hotel, displaced," Carroll Santa Cruz said."
""We needed something the fire couldn't burn and that was our music," Simmons-Santa-Cruz said. "At that time, we needed something separate from the fire - something that the fire couldn't touch, it was too traumatic to keep revisiting what we'd lost, so our work became our peace and our escape.""
""It was comforting, we didn't have to focus on the fire or what was lost, the music gave us a moment to reflect on life, and it became a saving grace," she said."
Lisa Simmons-Santa-Cruz and Francisco Carroll Santa Cruz lost their Altadena home in the Eaton fire and were displaced. The couple wrote songs from a hotel while working on Snoop Dogg's 2025 gospel album, Altar Call, after being introduced to Snoop by fellow artists. They chose not to disclose their displacement despite a donation center for fire victims. The pair lost their home studio but completed the project under time constraints. Music provided emotional refuge, healing, and a focus away from loss, which they described as a source of peace and divine intervention.
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