We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Brooklynn a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Brooklynn, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

My soul always knew that I was meant to create for the sake of creating. However, growing up in a strict religious household, my dreams of being a singer were often met with the upmost resistance. I was told I’d never be good enough to make it. I was told that I would become a bad person if I pursued a creative career of any kind. My father even told me that the music industry was evil and his daughter would have no part in that. To which I replied at the ripe age of 4 “I’ll change it then!” I believed I could too. Somewhere along the way though, their words did get to me. My firm belief that I was meant to have a part in changing the world for the better slowly faded as I grew up. It wasn’t until a few years ago that life brought me back to my truest desires. One day, I was randomly inspired from a breakup to write my first song “Love You too Well” in my car to a YouTube beat after years of thinking I could only sing so I had nothing special to offer. Turns out all I had to do was try! Not even a month later my waiter at a restaurant told me him and his friends were building a studio. I recorded my debut single “Soul, Spirit, Body.” and released it on my 19th birthday (Nov 5, 2020). A lot has changed since then, but to make a long journey short, I always knew – I just forgot, so the cosmos had to put it right there in my face.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I label myself as a creative as it would be impossible to box myself into a single means of creation. I began my creative journey as a writer. Throughout my years of school I excelled as a writer and won awards for many of my works. I will be debuting my first blog in a few weeks. As life’s journey brought me back to my love for singing, I learned to apply these skills to songwriting as well. Throughout my music career, I gained modeling and acting experience through being a part of quite a few photoshoots and video shoots. Recently, I signed to nxt|MODELS in Denver for modeling representation. In January I shaved my head and make a YouTube video about it. To my surprise, that video did really well and I had so much fun making it. I decided from there that I wanted to continue to pursue content creation as well. My creative endeavors will not stop here. I plan to immerse myself in dance and music and more acting as well. I am most proud of myself for being open to exploring all the many parts of myself and recognizing that there is no box that could contain me.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

When I was 19 right around the time I started making music, my father kicked me out of his house. In a way, that was the best thing he ever could have done for me – but that didn’t make it less hard. I experienced a lot of trauma from that point, bouncing around from place to place and even sleeping in my car at some points. Music and expressing myself through creating was the main thing that got me through so many mental battles. As much of the difficulty passed, I was blessed with two families who took me in at different times and helped me to get back on my feet. I finally had a place of my own, but the twisted view of love displayed in my childhood reflected in almost all of my close relationships for a long time. I spent a lot of time in isolation feeling depressed like I couldn’t move forward, but at the same time having many moments of recognition and growth and healing within myself. Along my journey of redefining love and giving it to myself, I began to come across some of the most amazing individuals I could hope to meet. My relationships this past year and a half have been the catalyst for even more incredible healing. Being seen, loved and accepted, feeling protected and safe for being exactly who I am (and being called out when necessary) allowed me to see and love myself in new ways as well. I have been able to alchemize my pain into beauty beyond my imagination. My love is a rare gift. This time has been a process of me re-sourcing how I give my love. Where it was once sourced from lack, it is now sourced from abundance. Only now am I ready to give it again and I shall give freely!

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I can understand to an extent what larger artists feel like when their fans are demanding music and they can’t quite explain why there’s no music coming out. As we’ve established, life always takes me where I need to be even if I don’t understand why in the moment. At a pivotal moment in my healing, my music was at risk for a copyright strike (I didn’t know better at the time) and I had to take everything down. I knew I would need to get my music produced locally and would have to find the right person. Since then and until very recently, I felt completely stuck. I couldn’t find the right person to work with and even when I thought I did, I was disappointed. I could not break out of this stagnancy. This is what forced me to refocus on healing so I could re-source my energy. After all of the excruciating work I did on myself, there is not a part of me that isn’t sure every single moment was worth it to feel the peace I do now. In my creative endeavors and through my voice, I want to teach people how to heal, and how to alchemize by sharing my journey. I want everyone to know that they can feel this abundance for themselves too. Pain and hardship are not ultimate. It takes introspection, it takes a ton of humility, it takes a lot in general, but we all can unlock superpowers inside of us that can change our lives. It’s not easy but I know that my childhood dream of a world with more love starts with each individual meeting themselves. My journey of growth is never-ending but I have come so far. I have come out of the darkest of places and am stepping into my blessings as a reward for the hard work. My driving force is my immense love for this universe and my deep desire for worldwide healing. Astronomical goal – I know! But just watch what I’m about to do with my people.

Contact Info:

• Website: brooklynnsvoice.com
• Instagram: brooklynnsvoice
• Twitter: brooklynnsvoice
• Youtube: brooklynnsvoice
• Other: New single Life Is So Good coming July 17th

Image Credits
on ig: @jrz.photo @barebonezcollective @hossphotography