TORONTO — Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Slean says she’s a creative person who could just as easily have become a painter or poet.
“Music is the language that I learned first and that’s the reason I’ve stayed with music and can speak with music,” she explained. “If I had picked up painting maybe five years earlier it might have been a different story.”
During an appearance on Global’s The Morning Show, the 36-year-old musician from Pickering, Ont. said all art comes from the same place. “It’s just us trying to understand our place in the world and what this crazy thing called existence is all about.”
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Slean added: “I love music. That’s why I do what I do.”
The singer described writing music as a form of “exorcism.”
“If you keep these uncomfortable feelings inside of yourself they sort of fester,” said Slean. “Sometimes you just need to make something out of the feeling to get it out of your body.”
Like in the song “Girls Hating Girls” on her 2011 album Land & Sea, in which she laments that “thirty-something can be one big high school.”
Slean explained: “I’ve experienced that. But I’d say the majority of the women in my life are extremely positive supportive people. I have amazing girl friends.”
Sarah Slean performs Nov. 16 at 5pm at Bloor-Yorkville Holiday Magic in the Village of Yorkville Park, hosted by Global’s Leslie Roberts and Liza Fromer.
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