Based in Mission, BC, Lights is a singer who loves to change up her sound, and for her latest A6 album, she combines the new-wave sounds with German language because of her German and Austrian roots.

She’s recently been able to fully express herself in a creative space and just put all these authentic feelings in her latest album. This is because she now owns the music she releases, and her song, “Damage”,  is the first one she put out.

When she started out with her first record, she wrote whatever came to mind, but after its release, it was given a lot of observations, and she even got teased for writing songs that sounded like Dr. Seuss melodies. It’s kind of bugged her for years where she challenged the way her songs were structured.

When she released “Damage”, she stuck with the first melody that came to mind and the two chords as the base. She can finally bring out some of her brightest and craziest ideas without anyone telling her otherwise. It also further explores the reason she disconnected from her religious roots. 

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She was raised by missionary parents, and missionaries are people who spread a religious faith like travelling to foreign countries. In Lights’ case, she and her parents did missionary training in Jamaica and grew up in the Philippines. 

In her case, being religious meant she didn’t really have much room for critical thought. She felt that Christianity and the way it was pushed on her was a pressure that led to a bit of loss in her identity. She feels that we’re always told what we’re supposed to be, and that our responses were pre-programmed.

She doesn’t blame her parents, but she’s deconstructed her belief systems, and she’s trying to find her purpose in life. She was once told by her parents that her musical talents were a gift from God and that’s her responsibility. She thinks that it’s easy for people to find the answers for everything in religion because it gives them a path to follow that they don’t have to create themselves.

When she wrote an older song called “Drive My Soul”, she didn’t intend to create Christian worship. It was really to bring positivity to the world. She spent a while examining herself and finding her sense of purpose, and it’s good that this path brings her more joy.