[Cover photo credit to Thais Aquino]

Singer, songwriter, and sound healer Doe Paoro has released a live video for her single, “Forgiveness Is.” The video features a full choir performing alongside Doe Paoro, complete with harp, cello, and flute instrumentals, making it a powerful rendition of the track.

Doe Paoro says:

Forgiveness has made me more free, and I think the depth of my work as an artist is proportional to how free I feel inside. In my experience, forgiveness is a key that can unlock many doors that appear sealed, including the door to our hearts, and that is the genesis of the song ‘Forgiveness Is.’ I was very blocked before I got into writing this record – so devastated by the state of the world and all the harms in it – and I decided to do a full inventory around forgiveness, working on making amends and also offering grace where I was holding anger, and the light slowly started streaming back in and the music came too. It’s an endless practice and so powerful.

“Forgiveness Is” comes off Doe Paoro’s recently released album, Living Through Collapse. Her first LP in seven years, it is “aimed at catalyzing collective healing.”

At the heart of Doe Paoro’s work is “an unshakeable faith in the power of music to heal, awaken, and unify consciousness.”

She explains:
 
“In recent years, I’ve been motivated by an awareness of how the world is collapsing—not just the environment, but also the intertwined systems and legacies of power, colonialism, capitalism, racism, and structural inequity, all driving us toward unsustainable and life-denying futures. This album came from asking myself how we step into the responsibility of this moment and how music can hold space for repair, as well as the seeding of new possibilities.  
 
This is a record about grief, repair and possibility. It’s about the karmic responsibility of being born, and a call to action to fight for the generations not yet born. It’s a sobering look of the unsustainability of where we are as a human and more-than-human family with our intersecting injustices and inequalities, wars, ecocide, and a rending of the social fabric, and it’s a plea that we don’t give up, but rather join in action towards collective liberation for all. This is a record that holds space for duality, paradox, and contradiction, and then transcending all of it. I hope it will serve as a salve, guide, and space-holder for the times that are coming.”