Jessica Willis Fisher.Photo: Sean Fisher
Jessica Willis Fisherhad put on yet another good show.
“I remember people coming up to me after shows and saying, “I wish I was part of your family,'” Fisher, now 30, recalls during a revealing interview with PEOPLE. “Our music left them feeling inspired and made them feel good. But, at the time, I was dying inside. There was such a gap between what I was experiencing and what I was leading people tobelieveI was experiencing.”
Jessica Willis Fisher.Sean Fisher
“I remember just filling my journals and notebooks with the pain of what I was going through,” Fisher remembers. “I was just going through some stuff that I really had no other good way of processing. Or even surviving.”
She draws in a deep breath.
“I read those journals now and it’s like I can see that 13-year-old Jess saw it all but didn’t know what to do with it. But now I do.”
She went and turned her pain into a musical masterpiece.
“I’ve lived each and every word of this album,” says Fisher of her brand-new debut solo albumBrand New Day, in which she wrote nine of the album’s 10 songs, some of which she began writing more than a decade ago. “I wrote these songs because Ineededthese songs. And I believe other people need them too.”
Of course, the painful details of Fisher’s past are not something she likes to dwell on, either in her music or in any sort of casual conversation for that matter. The artist says that although she previously incorporated fiction into songs for her family band, the tunes that make up her solo work are all based in truth. The emotional awakening of sorts comes through album tracks such as “Fire Song,” “The Lucky One” and “My History.”
Brand New Day Cover Art.Sean Fisher
And it is these brand-new days that not only inspired the album’s title track, but also other parts of the album, parts that speak of true love and happy endings. And it’s this that she has now found in the arms of husband Sean Fisher.
“It’s a wonderful, happy, ridiculously, romantic relationship that I find myself in,” explains Fisher, who lets listeners in on that much overdue feeling via the song “Hopelessly, Madly.” “I love his spontaneity and his enthusiasm for life and how he has no problem being unabashedly himself, no matter what.”
Granted, Fisher — who will release a book this fall — admits that her journey of healing continues.
source: people.com
