Series 1, Episode 17: Estelle with Nessi Gomes on Finding your Voice, Motherhood & Creativity
Episode 17:
Estelle with Nessi Gomes on Finding your Voice, Motherhood & CreativityIn this episode I talk with singer-songwriter Nessi Gomez about growing up on the tiny island of Guernsey to a Portuguese family. She shares how her teenage mental health struggles were the beginning of a quest to make sense of her ‘shadow-self’ through creativity. Her healing journey took her to Costa Rica, where she lived in a community working with plant medicine for three years. When she returned to the UK with her partner she wrote the album ‘Diamonds and Demons’ and since then she has been running the ‘Voice Odyssey retreats that create a safe and alchemical space for finding our voices.
ListenGuest InfoNessi Gomes
Born on the tiny Island of Guernsey to a Portuguese family, British singer- songwriter Nessi Gomes channels influences from both sides of her ethnicity, blending the essence of the traditional, emotional and ‘larger than life’ Fado folk music with British contemporary inspiration.
Though spending most of her life in the Channel Islands, the turning point in Nessi’s musical expression took place six years ago when she lived in Central America. The years she spent away from her home shook her world and reshaped her writing. She shifted from the more obvious themes of love, loss and broken hearts to ruthlessly exploring her inner geography, insecurities, beauty and light that she found there.
Her quirky and emotive voice began to reflect a brutally honest portrait of an inner world where shadows and hope, sanity and insanity dance magically together; where mysteries are unveiled.
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