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"   Gabrielle&amp;#039;s nineties hit Sunshine will forever have a place in my heart (and on my ribcage in fact as I have some of the lyrics tattooed there - rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll, I know) The lyrics &amp;#039;I can be who I want to be&amp;#039; remind me of my late Nan and how she would always encourage me to do whatever I wanted to do and they&amp;#039;ve spurred me on through the years. So with the release of her new album Now and Always - 20 years of dreaming, we grabbed Gabrielle herself to find out about what all those songs mean to her looking back now.... Dreams &amp;quot;Dreams nearly didn&amp;#039;t come out because I had so much trouble with a producer who wanted me to sign if I released the song and I didn&amp;#039;t want to sign to him. It appears to be a love song but it was all about me wanting to make it as a singer and making music my life&amp;#039;s work. Everyone kept making me promises but everytime I moved a step closer it felt like it was drifting away but I stuck at it and got there. My son and his friend texted me from Magaluff at 3am once when they were all on holiday clubbing and having great time and he was like &amp;#039;Dreams is an awesome song&amp;#039; [laughs] It&amp;#039;s crazy to think it almost didn&amp;#039;t get released.&amp;quot; Sunshine  &amp;quot;This song means a lot to people in different ways but it was actually written about my son. I was in such a good place then and he was about three. After going through so much you have this child that keeps you grounded, they&amp;#039;re your everything. He&amp;#039;s 18 now and at university. He knows it&amp;#039;s about him and he probably thinks its a bit embarrassing!&amp;quot; Rise  &amp;quot;I was in such a dark place when I wrote this song, I didn&amp;#039;t think I could cope. It&amp;#039;s about the break up with my son&amp;#039;s father. I probably should have seen a therapist but I wrote this song instead. Now everyone is like how do you sing without breaking? Everything was so devastating in my life, every time I sang it my eyes would fill up with tears. But eventually emotions were replaced with a calm - you see you&amp;#039;re over it and survived it emotionally intact because for a long time I wasn&amp;#039;t. That song was instrumental in getting me through a crisis.&amp;quot;  When a woman  &amp;quot;When a woman reminds me of such a fun time. It was after I&amp;#039;d got through the hard times and it&amp;#039;s such a fun girly song. I&amp;#039;m not a super serious song writer; there&amp;#039;s nothing cryptic about my music its always just been straight forward and something that matters to me. I&amp;#039;ve never tried to be cool or clever. My favourite song growing up was Waiting for a star to fall by Boy Meets Girl I used to sing it into my deodorant can listening to the Top 40. I love that song. It takes me back to being young care free and no responsibilities.&amp;quot; COSMO MEETS THE BACKSTREET BOYS MILEY CYRUS FOR COSMO: THE INTERVIEW CELEBRITY BFF LIST "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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