Duffy unveils music comeback
22 March, 2020
Pop star Duffy has unveiled her first original song for a decade, weeks after revealing a rape and kidnap ordeal that led her to retreat from the general public eye, reports BBC.The Welsh singer sent the song, titled 'Something Beautiful', to BBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley, who played it on Thursday.
'I don't intend to release it,' Duffy wrote. 'I just thought a little something might be nice for folks if they are in the home, on lockdown.' Last month, she revealed she had been 'raped and drugged and held captive'. She explained: 'Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There's no light way to say it.
'But I can let you know in the last decade, the thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel sunlight in my own heart again, sunlight does now shine.'
The brand new track is a love song that features the familiar soulful voice and retro backing that fan will remember from the times when Duffy was among the country's biggest stars.
'Thanks, Duffy, for sending that if you ask me,' Whiley said. Duffy had the UK's best-selling album of 2008 and the next year became the first woman to win three Brit Awards in the same night. But she nearly disappeared from the public eye after releasing her second album this year 2010.
She briefly re-emerged with a cameo role in the 2015 film Legend and two songs on the soundtrack - these were covers of tunes by Willie Nelson and Hank Cochran instead of originals.
In her message to Whiley, which she posted on Instagram, the singer wrote that she felt 'freer' after revealing her ordeal. 'So here is a song… here's Something Beautiful,' she wrote. 'It's just something so that you can play people on radio during these troubling times, if you like the song of course. If it lifts spirits.'
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