Singer Duffy unveils music comeback ‘to lift spirits in troubling times’

Pop star Duffy has unveiled her 1st authentic song for a 10 years, months just after revealing a rape and kidnap ordeal that led her to retreat from the community eye.

The Welsh singer despatched the song, titled Some thing Gorgeous, to BBC Radio two DJ Jo Whiley, who played it on Thursday.

“I do not prepare to launch it,” Duffy wrote. “I just imagined a minimal a thing may possibly be nice for people if they are at household, on lockdown.”

Last month, she exposed she experienced been “raped and drugged and held captive”.

She stated: “Of study course I survived. The restoration took time. There is no gentle way to say it.

“But I can tell you in the past 10 years, the thousands and thousands of days I dedicated to seeking to experience the sunshine in my coronary heart once more, the Sunshine does now shine.”

• Pay attention to Some thing Gorgeous by Duffy in entire on Jo Whiley’s Radio two show (at 1hr 55m)

The new keep track of is a adore song that attributes the familiar soulful voice and retro backing that fans will remember from the days when Duffy was a single of the country’s greatest stars.

“Thanks, Duffy, for sending that to me,” Whiley reported.

Duffy experienced the UK’s best-advertising album of 2008 and the pursuing calendar year grew to become the 1st lady to acquire 3 Brit Awards in the exact same evening.

‘I do experience freer’

But she pretty much disappeared from the community eye just after releasing her 2nd album in 2010.

She briefly re-emerged with a cameo role in the 2015 movie Legend and two tracks on the soundtrack – they had been addresses of tunes by Willie Nelson and Hank Cochran relatively than originals.

In her concept to Whiley, which she posted on Instagram, the singer wrote that she felt “freer” just after revealing her ordeal.

“So here is a song… here is Some thing Gorgeous,” she wrote. “It truly is just a thing for you to perform people on radio for the duration of these troubling times, if you like the song of study course. If it lifts spirits.”

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