It’s tough being a singer

SOLANGE Knowles has opened up about how “draining” it was making A Seat at the Table.

The 30-year-old singer spoke about the strenuous process of making the critically acclaimed 2016 record, and how she “lost perspective” during the “f ****** long” studio sessions.

The younger sister of Beyonce also said she travelled to Louisiana, to seek inspiration.

She said: “For this album, I actually went to my grandmother’s birth town of New Iberia, Louisiana. I rented this house, and I had my computer and I had my engineer, and I just kind of figured it out. And in terms of the writing process, it was a hell of a journey. It was a long f ****** time, and it was draining at times, and I lost perspective and context many times.”

She also said being a parent to 12-yearold Daniel Julez Smith jr – whom she had with ex-husband Daniel Smith – limited her options of where she could record.

She said: “I’m also a mother, and so I don’t have the luxury of saying, ‘Oh, I’m going to go away and write this album’. I have to be conscientious of both of our times.”

She feels “blessed” to have been surrounded by musicians in her family as it made her curious about every aspect of the producing and recording process.

She said: “I wanted to be involved in every facet, and I was really lucky and really blessed enough to have grown up in a musical family and to have access to women like Missy Elliott, where I watched women produce and write their own music and kill it.

“So, I felt really inspired to learn how to do everything. And I would always kind of straddle the line. I would tell a producer, ‘I don’t like that bass line, let’s take it here, let’s go to this chord progression’.”– Bang Showbiz