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Cecily, the Songbird
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Love yourself. Embrace your talents.
Cecily makes beautiful sounding soul music that soothes the mind and soul. Click “play” on her debut album, Songs of Love and Freedom, and you will be immediately greeted by the calming of an ocean and a mystical collection of instruments shimmering around her smooth and earnest vocals. “It’s definitely soulful, and in my opinion, timeless. I don’t try to be hip really. I just try to make good, honest music,” she says when speaking about her debut album. Cecily’s career began when she made a phone call to her mother saying that she was going to listen to her heart and give herself to music. She could have pursued many occupations with her Political Science and Black Studies degree from Swarthmore College, but she knew a career in music would give purpose to her life.
Photography courtesy of Nakeya Brown 32 • HOLLYWOOD WEEKLY
Cecily is part of a long tradition of vocalists who write and perform their own lyrics. “I am a vocalist
