Totality Of Self

A singer-songwriter and musician waxes lyrical on the manifold benefits of communing with oneself.

- Indran P

SELF-CARE. JOURNALLING. AN intimate proximity to nature. In Tierra Umi Wilson’s musical universe, that trinity is a non-negotiable basis of creation. The music of the 24-year-old American singer-songwriter, who uses her middle name professionally, is the convergence point of the raw, open-hearted earthiness of her lived experience and the ethereality of her register. Throughout her blossoming oeuvre, which includes her 2022 debut album Forest in the City, she examines the infinitely profound proximity between art and the human condition. Every song is a meditation on what it means to commune with one’s inner self and find a meaningful sense of holism within.

Your music is a refreshing break from the pop and R&B that the industry seems intent on pushing. What made you want to take a different approach?