{"id":16201,"date":"2021-03-03T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=187739"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:02:46","slug":"solange-fighting-for-life","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/solange-fighting-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Did We Know, Solange Was Fighting For Her Life While Writing Her Last Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_187744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187744\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187744\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-955769314.jpg\" alt=\"solange knowles\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, NY &#8211; MAY 07: Solange attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion &amp; The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the two-year anniversary of her last album, <em>When I Get Home<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/solange-knowles-is-an-ariana-grande-fan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solange<\/a> has recalled the experience of going &#8220;in and out of hospital&#8221; during the making of the LP. She has described it as &#8220;the project that literally changed my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old posted a photo of herself to Instagram captioning the image: &#8220;Two year anniversary of the project that literally changed my life. When I first started creating &#8216;When I Get Home&#8217; I was quite literally fighting for my life&#8230;in and out of hospitals (s\/out park plaza on Binz! \ud83d\ude42 with depleting health and broken spirits asking God to send me a sign I would not only survive, but that if he let me make it out alive, I would step into the light whatever that meant. 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The things I\u2019ve uncovered. The life long healing I\u2019ve begin. The great divine joy and love I\u2019ve experienced. The stories of my past I\u2019ve survived that I had stored all up in my body&#8230;. till it said&#8230;. no more. The re-learning. The reckoning. This album led me to all of it. Life has now become before WIGH and after WIGH. I\u2019m so grateful for you guys allowing me the space and time. So so so grateful. Ima be celebrating all week long the coming of home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The artist doesn&#8217;t stipulate what medical issues she faced during the making of her album but has revealed in the past her struggles with an autonomic nerve disorder. According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/solange-knowles-autonomic-nerve-disorder-2017-12?r=AU&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a>,<\/em> it caused her to cancel a number of live shows in 2017. 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To celebrate the anniversary, the &#8216;Director&#8217;s Cut&#8217; edition is streaming on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/culture\/film-tv\/a35687498\/how-to-solange-when-i-get-home-directors-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Criterion Channel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 19-track project is the fourth studio album from Solange and is the follow-up to her 2016 album <em>A Seat at the Table.\u00a0<\/em>She collaborated with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Playboi Carti, Gucci Mane, and Tyler, The Creator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1627,"featured_media":16203,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Solange Was Fighting For Her Life While Writing Last Album - Grazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On the two-year anniversary of her last album, When I Get Home, Solange has recalled her experience of going &quot;in and out of hospital&quot; during the making of the LP. 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