Gigi Perez, a 25-year-old musician from Brooklyn, reflects on her experience with grief and artistry as she prepares for the release of her debut album, 'At the Beach, in Every Life'. Despite her recent commercial success, including a platinum hit, her music catalog is rooted in personal loss, particularly the sudden death of her sister in 2020. Perez views her artistic journey as a means to navigate the complexities of life and death, often feeling the weight of inevitability as she mentions a conveyor belt metaphor for aging and loss.
When you're a kid, music is verbalizing things you don't know how to say—you don't have the vocabulary to understand. You're discovering how you feel in real time.
I feel like I’m on a conveyor belt that’s going to this inevitable end. At 25, Perez speaks with a weariness of someone at least twice her age.
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