'I felt like there was a hand over my mouth for a long time' Singer Grace Carter talks about writer's block during pandemic
Here's a tip for any budding songwriters: If you're facing writer's block, text your granddad.
Vulnerable and melancholy, it resonated with audiences, picking up 47 million streams on Spotify, and earning Carter a place on the BBC's influential Sound Of 2019 list.Then Covid struck and all that momentum ground to a halt. As a teenager, music had been a way for Carter to process her feelings. She wrote about her dad and her childhood, without realising those stories would become fodder for the press.
On top of that, Carter was grappling with another aspect of her childhood, as a mixed race kid with a white single mother. Growing up in London, it didn't seem to matter; but when she moved to Brighton, children at her school asked if she was adopted.
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