Pop and R&B artist ELENA is full of hope in new single ‘Dreaming’

From her debut EP, Enough Love

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Olivia Rayner

Emerging UK artist ELENA is releasing her debut EP, Enough Love, which was written over during the height of the covid-19 pandemic, but it’s important to note that it’s not a “covid album”, instead this EP is about enjoying life. She walks the line between fun, lighthearted and a little sad, because that’s what being human is all about.

“I never wanted this EP to be sad, I wanted to share my life and not only the pandemic to express different events and episodes which I have had live through putting myself in control. The song represents what I felt and wished I had said, if I had been strong enough at the time. Writing these words onto a page has been life therapy I never knew I needed.”

The EP features R&B-pop tracks ‘Whole Again’, ‘Man Enough’ and focus track ‘Dreaming’, the last of which captures ELENA’s hopeful attitude towards the future; whatever life throws her way, she can always turn to her music, her own form of self-therapy.

About

ELENA (aka Elena Benocci) is a 21-year-old artist who has been studying musical theatre since 3-years-old, but by the time she graduated from that discipline, she no longer felt that theatre was gratifying enough. In 2021, she got in touch with The Inscape Studios and so began her songwriting career.

Like Elena recalls: “Just like that it clicked, this was what I was meant to be doing! I know that’s proper cringe and cliche but it really was! Writing was like therapy. Whether I wrote the song overnight or over a few sessions at the studio, getting thoughts onto paper was a complete escape!”

One of the catalysts that got ELENA started on her writing journey was the tragic loss of two grandparents in January 2021, who she affectionately called Nonno and Nanny Rae, both of whom greatly encouraged her creative and performance pursuits.

Speaking about how ELENA used the songwriting to cope with loss, grief and healing, she shares that “accepting things happen with no reason or rhyme, whether happy or not you learn to grow. This doesn’t mean the situation didn’t hurt or wasn’t heart breaking, it was allowing myself to feel the emotion and move forward. Writing Whole again was a way of coping with loss.

Source Olivia Rayner