The British musician explains how she overcame trauma and illness through her piano, triumphing with her new album, 'LDR.'
British pianist and singerhas a bubbly, bright demeanor, but behind her positivity are deep scars. While other children basked in the warm glow of a relatively carefree childhood, at age ten Allen faced an emotionally abusive middle school music teacher who swiftly dampened her passion for music.
But Allen still held on to the piano, and here eyes shine as she recalls those early, formative moments. She taught herself how to play by deconstructing and mimicking her favorite pop songs, banging on the piano with her friends and absorbing musical knowledge with unmatched zeal."[My friends] would be super excited about it. I'd be super excited. So music has always been a really, really positive and personal thing for me in the way that I can connect to people," Allen says.
She remembers the struggle of straining towards perfectionism while facing invalidation and elitism from classical music circles."I didn't get the response I expected from other people," she says."So I just think it was a lot of self-deprecation." She emphasizes that classical music"is not meant to be about brilliance, and that's what the narrative has been. ... It's like, if you're not the most technically gifted, then you can't actually play.
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