Jessie Reyez Makes Debut With Music for Mortality

Last week, when she was supposed to be onstage at Madison Square Garden opening for Billie Eilish, Jessie Reyez was instead at home like the rest of us, her promotion for the release of her debut album having drastically shifted from touring and radio appearances to phone calls and Instagram posts. While some artists are choosing to delay the release of new music during the coronavirus outbreak — Lady Gaga, for one — Reyez is pushing forward, hoping that her music can provide some sort of reprieve. “To be honest, I was nervous about releasing the album during this time because I felt like I didn’t want to be insensitive to what was going on at home,” Reyez says over the phone. “I was confused. So I reached out to my team and my team said ‘We’re going to do whatever you want.’ And then I reached out online and the general consensus was ‘drop it.’ Like 97 percent of the people that responded were saying ‘drop that s–t.’ So I made the decision to just kind of go at it wholehearted and embrace the fact that it is what it is.” That’s not to say it was an easy decision: the premise

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