Singer-songwriter Freya Ridings joins us on Love Lives this week to discuss why melancholic ballads will always be her natural style of songwriting.

Freya opens up about the pressure she’s faced to “pretzel” herself into a different type of artist, the importance of writing and performing one’s own music, and how this often poses a challenge to women in the music industry.

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