Medication is supposed to help you mend from illness but for Levi
Perry a prescription of antibiotics left her fighting for her life. Now
with a floxed body, the painful and long-lasting side effects she now
lives with have held her music career back for long enough. With
renewed vigour she returned to the music scene with her album “The
Power of Music” which won many music awards.
Honoured to have befriended this beautiful soul online she trusted me,
among others, to listen to her new album before its release but prior
to discussing the music and lyrics themselves here’s a little
background on the production side of matters.
Levi is hugely talented and writes from her heart about events that
have affected her life. Within her new album, “Warrior” she shares
aspects of love, loss, illness, contentment, and various other emotions.
With regards to the music itself, this is produced via a complex
method of how she feels the tempo and pitch of notes need to sound
in comparison to her voice with the help of a third party actually on
the instruments. Levi is very much in control of the whole production
process herself from writing the words to producing the finished
product and this is a process she completes without financial backing.
Moreover, her new album was produced during lockdown under the
added pressures of a worldwide pandemic and she is reflective of this
in her final track.
Vocally, there is a uniqueness about Ms Perri that captures the very essence of who she is. Not only does her pain emit through the words but so does her beauty and ability to glow. Feeding from emotions and using creativity at its best, Levi has produced what I consider to be another winning album that will lift your heart and soul that begins with “You’re Gonna Rise”, with upbeat lyrics that raise you ‘like a phoenix’ in readiness to rock out to her second song. “Warrior”, the third track, I believe was the first of Levi’s songs I ever heard—which was some months ago now—conveying the fighter within her, the inner strength that she has needed to fight back from her illness. Ultimately, my favourite track is number seven, mainly due to the fact that the vocals made the hairs on the back of my neck tingle the first time I heard them. Incidentally, they have done this each time I’ve listened since (and I’ve listened to the track several times over the past few weeks). Having the ability to fight back from such extreme circumstances is one thing but to do so with the determination to succeed in an industry where money talks [without any backing] is quite something. Levi, my amazingly talented and beautiful friend, I commend this determination of yours and wish you every success with “Warrior” for you
deserve to rise.
Vocally, there is a uniqueness about Ms Perri that captures the very essence of who she is. Not only does her pain emit through the words but so does her beauty and ability to glow. Feeding from emotions and using creativity at its best, Levi has produced what I consider to be another winning album that will lift your heart and soul that begins with “You’re Gonna Rise”, with upbeat lyrics that raise you ‘like a phoenix’ in readiness to rock out to her second song. “Warrior”, the third track, I believe was the first of Levi’s songs I ever heard—which was some months ago now—conveying the fighter within her, the inner strength that she has needed to fight back from her illness. Ultimately, my favourite track is number seven, mainly due to the fact that the vocals made the hairs on the back of my neck tingle the first time I heard them. Incidentally, they have done this each time I’ve listened since (and I’ve listened to the track several times over the past few weeks). Having the ability to fight back from such extreme circumstances is one thing but to do so with the determination to succeed in an industry where money talks [without any backing] is quite something. Levi, my amazingly talented and beautiful friend, I commend this determination of yours and wish you every success with “Warrior” for you
deserve to rise.
by Donna Siggers