Deep songs, Carla Franco’s music touches the soul. Picture Supplied There is a moment, she suggests, when everything fractures. It’s not a loud crash boom bang, but rather a silent destruction over time.
The aftermath of something that should have ended differently. Singer-songwriterCarla FrancotoldThe Citizenthat moment for her came at the end of a long-term relationship that closed over text, without conversation or closure. It became more than just heartbreak, it also morphed into a slow unravelling of a narrative built on dishonesty.
It was in that disorientation, Franco said, that her new single,Version Of Me, came to life. It’s not so much simply a song, but rather a response and a reclaim of a measure of self. That sense of drawing a line in the sand and taking her own back runs through her upcoming body of work,A Funeral For My Grief, an album that navigates loss in its many forms from the self, relationships, and of time.
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According to Franco, grief is not a singular event, but something layered and consuming, something that can eclipse even other losses if left unchecked. She further remarked that her music is not resolution, but a process and one grounded in accountability, faith, discipline, and a deliberate decision to rebuild. Carla Franco:I had just come out of a toxic three-year relationship that ended over text, with no closure. What hurt most wasn’t just the ending, but the layers of dishonesty that surfaced afterwards.
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