Singer, songwriter and actress Raven-Symoné has revealed her new EP of songs is based on the ups and downs of life in show business taken from the pages of her personal diaries, DailyMailTV can reveal.
And in an exclusive interview the former child actress and Disney star said the independent work called INFRASOUNDS is an emotional rollercoaster, so raw she is still struggling to process it.
‘I do believe growing up in the industry has morphed my vision of life in general,’ she explained. ‘I’m a product of my environment/upbringing and yeah, I’ve been in this industry since I was two years old and I’m 34.
Raven has transformed the emotions she spilled on to the pages of her diary into five songs for this latest EP, the second in a collective.
And Raven says she struggles to talk about some of her experiences growing up, even now.
‘I’m still going through the motions to be honest with you,’ she explains. ‘It’s good to get it on paper, but a lot of the words in the album are from old diaries.
‘I’m a product of my environment/upbringing and yeah, I’ve been in this industry since I was two years old and I’m 34,’ she tells DailyMailTV
‘It’s the first time you ever hear me speak about what I was going through from three-years-old to now. It talks about relationships. It was written on a night where I was by myself in the house and in full honesty there was a bottle of gin on the table.
‘I just wrote a journal entry about if I was to be cocky in this moment, what would I say? And that’s what it ended up being.
‘So this music is my version of growing up again. It has been in the works since… my entire life.’
Former child star Raven landed her break out role aged just four when she played Olivia on the Cosby Show from 1989-1992.
She then landed a role on hit show Hanging with Mr. Cooper before becoming one of Disney’s brightest stars in the 2000s, starring as Raven Baxter on the Disney Channel as a teen and going on to appear in several movies and TV series.
She was also a co-host of the ABC daytime talk show The View from 2015 to 2016.
The talented singer also dipped her toes into music from a young age releasing several albums and singing on the soundtracks to a string of Disney projects.
Raven is now enjoying somewhat of a resurgence.
It started with the runaway success of her Disney Channel reboot Raven’s Home and continued last year with her stint as the Black Widow on The Masked Singer.
But behind the scenes her focus has been to revive her music career.
In December Raven released her new four-song EP 33000 and now comes INFRASOUNDS, produced by Austin Brown and Brian London.
‘I do believe growing up in the industry has morphed my vision of life in general,’ she explained to DailyMailTV in an exclusive interview
‘I started to stop being scared to do me and say what I want to say even more,’ she explained of her music comeback.
Raven, speaking to DailyMailTV from her Los Angeles home while in coronavirus isolation, says her appearance on The Masked Singer ‘reinvigorated’ her to step back on to the scene.
‘When I finished The Masked Singer and I felt what it was like to be on that stage again, I said, you know what, let me just go back in here and see what happens.
‘You know, nothing crazy, if it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.’
And Raven said she didn’t want a big music company ‘breathing down my back’ so the project is self-funded, self-produced and she’s taken as much time as she needs.
The star, who is majoring in fine art at the Academy of Art University, even did the artwork for the album.
‘This is me right now, at this moment, this is who I am. This is not curated by stylists, by publicists or by companies,’ she explained with pride.
‘This is fully curated by myself and my friends.’
