But all the book’s publishers really had to do was provide a link to Isolde Fair ’s poignant new song of that title: “Rise,” the 16-year-old singer-songwriter-musician’s newest release, following 2017’s highly acclaimed media sensation “To All the Little Girls,” explores several connotations of the word within one performance teeming with emotion and insight.
”“Rise” begins with a brief spoken-word recitation by Isolde over a haunting bed of synths, then glides into its opening verse, sung to her soulful piano chords: “I've been thinking of a time where everything will be alright/Helicopters up above, my feet touching the underground/Where have you been, yeah/Luck, I need you now/Won’t be running away, yeah/We’ll break the chains somehow.”
“Rise” is a collaboration between Isolde and her multi-talented parents: her mother, the esteemed pianist and composer Starr Parodi, who co-wrote the song with Isolde; and Jeff Eden Fair, Isolde’s father, who co-produced it with Starr.
The video was directed by Sara Nesson and choreographed by Bonnie Story and Suzi Lonergan.The basic concept for the song first came to Isolde while she was riding in a car.
“It was a collaboration with a lot of creative people who believe in the song,” Isolde says of the video.
