Singers Cecily and Muhsinah Collaborate for New Single “Spirit Tell Me” | Coming Nov. 11th, 2020 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!
If 2020 Has You Feeling Lost, Soul Artist Cecily Offers Guidance
Two Female Songwriters Teamed Up to Give Us the Song and Strength We Need After Enduring 2020
Washington, DC, October 20, 2020 – DC’s own Cecily, two-time Washington Area Music (Wammie) Award Winner, has joined musical forces with fellow Washingtonian and Grammy-nominated singer and producer Muhsinah to present “Spirit Tell Me” the first single from Awakening Pt. 2, Cecily’s eagerly anticipated continuation of the critically acclaimed Awakening. Pt 1, for which the visual EP received Grammy consideration for 2020.
“Muhsinah and I had our first-ever songwriting session just a few weeks before the lockdown began. We wrote “Spirit Tell Me” in about 90 minutes, and we both felt it was a powerful song,” says Cecily. “Due to the pandemic, I had decided to delay releasing any new music until 2021, but I woke up one morning in June in the midst of the global public health crisis, economic uncertainty, and an unprecedented movement for racial justice, I knew this was a song that needed to be shared before the end of the year. I knew that this song of hope was desperately needed especially now.”
“Spirit Tell Me” is an inspirational song, depicting how many of us call on the Divine when we feel stagnant or lost. Trusting Spirit to guide us, we move through our uncertainty, feelings of overwhelm, and self-doubt. By trusting the Divine, we recognize our own divinity and learn to trust ourselves.
Cecily adds, “Sometimes life leads you out into unfamiliar and uncomfortable places, and that’s when you lean on trust. I think that’s a lesson that 2020 has taught me and many others as well.”
All of Cecily’s music and each of her songs tell a story; and when woven together on an album or EP, she delivers the rare and lost art of a concept album. Awakening Pt. 2 interweaves Cecily’s life experiences with inspiration from the book All About Love by Black feminist writer bell hooks. Embracing the creativity and power of Black women working together, Cecily reached out to collaborate with Muhsinah, who has written and collaborated with Common, Flying Lotus, Robert Glasper, The Foreign Exchange, and many more. Their fruitful collaboration was “Spirit Tell Me,” which Muhsinah co-wrote and produced.
The song and music video “Spirit Tell Me” will be released on November 11, 2020, on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, and all music retail and streaming platforms.
