Singer/songwriter Annalie Prime isn’t just singing to her audience, though she does that beautifully. She is having a conversation with them, sharing her point of view, encouraging discussions about life, love and the lessons learned.
The 26-year-old musician from Chase Village has recently emerged from what she says is a transformative period in her life, and now she’s focused on what she describes as legacy-building, love, light and an impact she intends to be everlasting.
This is evidenced by her latest single Set Your Sight, a song which evokes the immortelle tree, trunk strong and rooted, vibrant vermilion flowers impossible to ignore and branches that provide shade.
“Set your Sight is the beginning of a theme I am introducing for this year, which is feminine energy and understanding cycles, and trying to connect the human journey. It sounds like the typical love song and a nice rockers, but the chorus has a deeper meaning behind it,” Prime said in an interview.
“The immortelle tree is known in the Caribbean as the everlasting tree and so the street that I name in the chorus, Everlane Street, is a play on the meaning of the tree. So basically I am talking about young people trying to navigate love in a time where we are not able to touch or see each other or engage in ways we are familiar with."
[caption id="attachment_891255" align="alignnone" width="683"] Annalie Prime’s music is a conversation with her audience, sharing her point of view, encouraging discussions about life, love and the lessons learned. - Marvin Hamilton[/caption]
When Prime uses the imagery of the everlasting tree in Set Your Sight, she wants her listeners to know this song is about love that lasts and embracing that type of love, during a time when everything seems a bit fragile.
“Set your Sight is kind of like a suggestion to meet each other with the intent of something that is lasting, not just, 'I need to go to a zess,' not just temporary pleasures, but asking young people to meet at this cornerstone which is immortelle tree and understand their needs and wants on a bigger scale: if it is we want to be back out in the open, what it will take or if you want something lasting from life.”
Meeting by the immortelle tree, Prime says, also has a meditative aspect, something she is familiar with because of not being able to perform in front of live audiences during the pandemic.
“It is frustrating. In the past two days I have done way more breathing exercises than I have done in my life."
While live performances are impossible because of covid19 regulations, she recently performed at soca artiste Nessa Preppy's virtual concert and has performed at True Talk No Lie and opened for Freetown Collective.
[caption id="attachment_891254" align="alignnone" width="683"] When it comes to her values and the intentions she sets for her songs, singer/songwriter Annalie Prime says she moves with love and light. - Marvin Hamilton[/caption]
She’s also very familiar
