Money from the streams of her songs on services like Spotify and Apple Music was practically nonexistent, she said, adding up to “just a few pounds here and there.” So she joined other disillusioned musicians in organizing online to push for change. Like musicians everywhere who were stuck off the road, staring into the abyss of their bank accounts, Shah - whose dark alto and eclectic songs have brought her critical acclaim and a niche following - began to examine her livelihood as an artist. “I was financially crippled,” Shah said in an interview. The concert bookings that sustained her vanished and, at age 34, she moved back in with her parents on the northeast coast of England. When the pandemic hit last year, the British singer-songwriter Nadine Shah saw her income dry up in an instant.
0 kommentar(er)
