"It was just like my body saying, 'Okay, now you really have to deal with this. "It forced me to look at [the trauma], and honestly, I'm not sure I would have." She found articles that referred to sexual assault survivors who eventually lost their voices altogether after keeping silent for a period of time. "I knew at that time, because I had lost my singing voice and not my speaking voice, that I would need to sing about it," she said. At one point, the tall, lithe Dhegrae sings with square shoulders and a bold voice opposite a male vocalist, appearing to confront her trauma head-on.

Source: Daily Nation January 15, 2020 12:00 UTC