Women Making Music Spotlight on Caromia Humphrey and her beautiful and intimate EP releases: "Green" and "Sunday Land" By Peggy Ratusz
Melody Cooper
ine years ago I was doing my usual surfing on YouTube for local female singers and stumbled upon a video that moved me to my core: Caromia’s rendition of Patsy Cline’s, ‘Crazy.’
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I’ve been in love with her all this time and it was my honor to speak with her about her two most recent EP releases, “Green” from 2019 and “Sunday Land” from 2020. Here are highlights from our exchange!
At the time I was hosting a singer-songwriter in the round, so I reached out to her and booked her within a month. Soon after, I asked her to play for the Female Artist Spotlight nights I was hosting twice per month. I was also fortunate to have shared the stage with her in 2016 for the Downtown After Five All-Star jam!
Peggy: You said at the time you released the EP “Green” that it was anticlimactic. How has Green moved in the ethos since its release?
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Caromia: It was a combination of the lockdown, and what felt like a tectonic shift in the mainstream narrative of our country.
It felt silly to try to call attention to myself, and ask people to listen to these intimate songs amidst a revolutionary moment. For both of the albums, the purpose and totality of my ambition was in the creative process of writing and recording them. Peggy: How are you doing now that both releases are out there? Caromia: I’m in a good place! It’s interesting to look back to where I was when I wrote them. I wrote and recorded Green fall/ winter of 2019, Sunday Land in spring/ summer of 2020. I’m just realizing this now, but they absolutely reflect the physical seasons they came from. In Green, I was turned inward, navigating a dark time, processing grief, heart-
