by Andréa Fleury | Jul 13, 2026 | Andréa Fleury, Isadorah Ray, Literature, Music, Reflections
Sometimes we think we are writing different songs. But every now and then, we realize they are simply different windows looking at the same landscape. When I finished It Stayed With Me, I suddenly understood why It Was Always There had come first. One song speaks...
by Andréa Fleury | Jun 27, 2026 | Andréa Fleury, Isadorah Ray, Literature, Music
One of the questions I receive most often is why Isadorah Ray sings the way she does. The answer begins long before the microphone. As a songwriter and a student of Music and Cognition, I’ve become increasingly fascinated by something that often goes unnoticed:...
by Andréa Fleury | Jun 24, 2026 | Andréa Fleury, Isadorah Ray, Maria de Castro, Music
Some songs change when they are translated. This one didn’t. Onde Eu Quebro by Maria de Castro and Hold Me Where I Break by Isadorah Ray share the same lyrics, the same melody and the same emotional core. Yet they feel surprisingly different. Not because the...
by Andréa Fleury | Jun 23, 2026 | Andréa Fleury, Isadorah Ray, Literature, Music, Reflections
Some songs surprise us. Others teach us something about ourselves. And sometimes, what surprises us is not the song itself. It’s the way someone listens to it. Recently, I received a comment about *Something More* that stayed with me. Not because it was praise. But...
by Andréa Fleury | Jun 22, 2026 | Andréa Fleury, Isadorah Ray, Literature, Music, Reflections
Some songs begin with a melody. Others begin with a question. Something More began with a thought. Not a dramatic thought. Not a life-changing revelation. Just a small idea that slowly grew into a song. While writing it, I started imagining the music as a...
by Andréa Fleury | Jun 18, 2026 | Andréa Fleury, Isadorah Ray, Music, Reflections
When we listen to a song, we hear the finished result. What we rarely hear is everything that happened before that final version existed. Better Questions spent almost two months in that unfinished space. The lyrics were written. The melody was written. The emotional...
