Jessica Falk has been playing the piano and singing ever since she was given a piano by her mother Siv as a child.
But she had never written her own music before.
– In the fall of 2009, almost five years after I lost my mother, I was still very down. One day I got so pissed off at that depression and thought I can’t take it anymore, I have to start living, says Jessica.
– I took a walk, and then it was as if I opened up. Suddenly a melody came into my head, and then a text came. It felt healing.
Recording in Nashville
The songs became more, and in the end she had material for an entire album – which she, in different ways, eventually came to record in the capital of country music, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Jessica Falk tells about this spiritual journey in the autobiographical book “From Khao Lak to Nashville”, which was published this summer.
There she states that the music lifted her out of the sadness and depression after the loss. But:
– Without my husband and my daughter, I would never have managed this. I was completely paralyzed with grief and they didn’t know how to help me at first, but they have always been there for me. All the time.