Allison Russell’s debut solo album, “Outside Child,” explores the trauma she experienced being sexually and emotionally abused until the time she was 15, and how she learned to choose her own famil…
’s debut solo album, “Outside Child,” explores the trauma she experienced being sexually and emotionally abused until the time she was 15, and how she learned to choose her own family and channel the power of music and art to escape and thrive. Triply Grammy-nominated, it’s the kind of album the Recording Academy can proudly point to as something that not just embodies excellence but could actually save a life.
“‘Outside Child’ is a true debut record in that I’m facing one of my deepest fears, which is to be completely visible and out in the open and myself. That is a fear that is inseparable from the kind of childhood I had, where it was self-preservation to hide, for a long time.
“I wrote ‘Outside Child’ coming off of the songs of Our Native Daughters, the record that Rhiannon and Leyla and Amythyst and I wrote together. And that was the first time I really connected my personal experience with a bigger historical picture and specifically of my ancestral lineage history, when I learned about and wrote about Quesheba, and started dreaming about her and understanding how closely paralleled my life and hers were, particularly the first 15 years.
That would be Montreal, which she found a sheltering place when she ran away from home. “I slept safely in that graveyard and nobody violated me there. I slept safely on this park bench in the basilica, and in the St. Joseph’s oratory and in the Miguel conservatory students’ practice rooms. I lived in a city that loves art so much that we shut down major public thoroughfairs and fill the city with world-class music from everywhere.
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