However, making the album didn’t happen overnight. And, more than making an album, I just decided that I was going to go on a journey and shifting that narrative for myself and for other people.”Īrie admits the episode wasn’t the catalyst that inspired her to make a new record, but that it was a sign. Is that really how I look to people? I realized to some I really did look like that. For her to ask that just drove home what I really was,” Arie says in a phone interview. During the interview, Winfrey asked, “How long has unworthiness been your calling card?” Or so it seems.īack in 2013, Arie was a guest on Winfrey’s “Super Soul Sunday” where she and the media maven sat down to discuss her then-new record SongVersation. The 16-track collection opens with the self-empowering intro “Worthy” where the artist chants “everyone is worthy.”Īnd it all started with a conversation with Oprah Winfrey. Her first single “That Magic”, a reggae-infused banger, peaked at number 6 on the Adult R&B Songs chart. Released in February, Worthy reunites fans with India Arie ’s cleverly weaved world views on love and relationships while experimenting with new sounds. Two years later, Arie would release SongVersation: Medicine, an EP follow-up to her fifth album of the same name. In 2015, the R&B songstress released Christmas with Friends, a holiday collaboration with pianist Joe Sample, Brandy, and Tori Kelly. However, Arie is anything but absent from the music industry. The tour, in support of her eighth studio album Worthy, marks the songstress’s first full-length record in half a decade. It’s a rainy day in Nashville as singer-songwriter India.Arie prepares for an evening of interviews before embarking on the Worthy Tour, a 21 city trek which includes a sold-out stop at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Center, May 14. 7 Comments INDIA.ARIE// THE JOURNEY TO WORTHY

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