How Yahzarah got her groove back
The Ballad of Purple St. James puts Foreign Exchange Music on the map
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If anyone understands that love isn't always perfect, it's Yahzarah.
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When she abruptly left her first love, music, to take a day job at Banana Republic in 2003, she knew something seriously had to give. Heartbroken after the release of her lackluster second album, Black Star, she was drained — creatively, emotionally and mentally — and needed to hibernate from the music industry.
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"There was a point when I started to believe them, started to believe that I really couldn't write songs and be myself," she says, recalling her frustration at fighting what would turn out to be a losing battle over creative control.
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But eventually, the people who loved her, even in her low point between albums, persuaded her to get back to music. "Soul singer Ledisi was like: 'You have a job now? Are you crazy?'" she remembers.
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