![]() I had wanted to before the pandemic but not anymore. So the original Asheville people hang out in the original places.” It’s also why, when I ask if she sees herself moving up in the world again, perhaps to a music hub such as New York City, she’s immediate with her answer. It’s been changed a lot by tourism and development. There’s a lot of people under the surface who only play places in the original Asheville scene. ![]() “It’s a really beautiful music community though with so many talented people. She soon found herself in the music community she had been craving for so long. She knew that I needed a broader music community to experience as well, so I moved out of my mom’s house and into a house with my sister, who was I think 24 at the time, in Asheville.”Īfter lacking love and compassion in Spruce Pine, she endeavoured to find it for herself in Asheville. My mum felt like I needed to go somewhere else because I needed to be free of that tension and I also just wasn’t having a good time in Spruce Pine. “It kind of became tense in the house because I was so young and didn’t understand the violence and confusion that comes with dementia. “My grandfather had moved in with us about a year before I moved to Asheville,” she recalls. “I would probably be in a very different position if I didn’t have music to give me some sort of tool to connect with people through.”ĭe Souza would eventually land in Asheville, moving there at the age of 16. Music and songwriting, then, were her way out of her shyness. Her family unit – her father, a Brazilian bossa nova guitarist, her mother, an eccentric but passionate creative artist – didn’t fit the typical Spruce Pine mould. As one of the very few mixed race students, she suffered from bullying feeling like an outcast. ![]() “Spruce Pine just happened to be very different from Asheville in the end,” De Souza laughs. Her family had considered moving to the bigger city of Asheville but it proved to be too expensive at the time, leading them to choose a town that was close to it. She grew up in Spruce Pine, a very small conservative town in the middle of the North Carolina mountains. This is all to say that the story of Indigo De Souza is one of perseverance. When speaking to her over Zoom, very little of this previous shyness still lingers. It doesn’t matter whether she’s singing about past relationships, new friendships, or even death she’s always intensely present with her feelings in the songs. On her newest album Any Shape You Take, she is unflinching and forthright in displaying all her emotions, leaving nothing hidden from her listeners. It’s disarming to discover that Indigo De Souza used to suffer from crippling shyness.
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