Tori Kelly is contemporary off a profitable tour and a brand new EP Tori, and the star sat down with Billboard‘s Rania Aniftos to replicate on her previous few months.
Fortunately, the 30-year-old singer says she’s “feeling actually good” after she was hospitalized again in July for blood clots in her lungs and legs. “It completely caught me off guard,” she mentioned of the expertise. “It was a scary few days however, however I’m so blissful that I had like a very good help system round me. I used to be thoughts blown by this all of the love and help.”
One one that instantly reached out was none aside from Beyoncé, who despatched Kelly flowers together with a “Get Properly Quickly” card. “I received loads of flowers however when Beyoncé’s flowers confirmed up, it’s like, oh yeah, these are clearly Beyoncé’s. They had been large,” Kelly says.
As for her new EP, Kelly says its a mirrored image of her progress over the previous few years. “My final full size album was even earlier than 2020. That album was much more unhappy, and I had gone by way of loads of issues personally, with household and all these various things. So rising from that, having loads of therapeutic, being in love and simply wanting to specific that feeling — this new wave of confidence come over me and all of that, I simply put into the music and I hopefully you possibly can hear that. I feel I’m in simply this new place in my life the place I’m keen to have slightly extra enjoyable and experiment with sounds and magnificence.”
However she’s not finished but. “What I’ll say is there’s positively extra the place this EP got here from,” she mentioned of the potential of a brand new album.
Watch Billboard‘s full interview with Tori Kelly above.