Tina Ván

Brick By Brick

I write songs the way some people keep diaries.

Quietly. Honestly. Intimately.

They hold the emotional truths that often stay silent but want to be felt out loud. Writing them down and singing them out loud is how the world starts to make more sense to me.

I’m making this album now, and not years ago, because I wasn’t ready then. I was scared to speak these truths, and I wasn’t who I needed to be yet. I let the world speak for me instead of speaking to the world about me. Over time, I was molded into a version of myself that didn’t feel like my truest form. Until now.

Most of my songs end up circling heartache. The kind that lingers. The kind that still feels raw when I think about it. But they also speak about breaking walls to let the light flood in. They come from experiences that shaped me and from learning to live as who I was always meant to be. Writing them has also become a release. A way to breathe through what hurt and keep moving forward.

At this point in my life, I’m no longer interested in living in the backseat, giving my heart away foolishly, or being scared to shine a light on the truth. What I want instead is to love deeply, live authentically, and to never forget in the dark, what I know is true in the light.

I’m still writing the story, and I probably always will. But for now, this is the truth about me. And the rest... well that lives in the songs.