Singing Through The Shadows

I wrote songs when I couldn’t speak.

When speaking wasn’t safe. When the truth would have gotten me punished. When I was too afraid, too ashamed, too silenced to say what I really felt.

So I hid it in melody.

For 25 years, most of those songs stayed hidden — too raw, too personal, too dangerous to share. I put them in a box and told myself I’d release them someday.

Someday is now.

Singing Through the Shadows is a memoir in essays and songs. Each chapter tells the story behind one song I wrote when I couldn’t speak. You’ll hear the song. You’ll read the story. You’ll understand why I had to bury the truth inside a melody — and what it took to finally dig it back up.

These songs have never been released. Some of them, no one has ever heard.

Until now.


What you get as a paid subscriber:

📖 Full access to every chapter of Singing Through the Shadows

🎵 Lyric videos for songs that have never been released

✍️ The real stories behind the music — raw, unfiltered, finally told

🎁 Early access before anything goes public

📚 FREE access to all my ebooks (founding members only)

📕 First access to the finished book when it’s complete (founding members only)


You’re not just subscribing. You’re watching a book get written in real time — and you’ll be the first to hold the finished work.

Your subscription supports independent artist work. No label. No publisher. No gatekeeper. Just me and you.

This is the work I was always meant to make. Thank you for being part of it.

$7/month or $70/year

💙 Bella

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