As she was putting the finishing touches on her full-length debut LP, Before Love Came to Kill Us, folky R&B singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez wanted listeners to think about their mortality.But suddenly, that became eerily prescient in the weeks leading up to its release earlier this week as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe.Life and death, “has always been in front of me by the nature of how I was raised,” Reyez says from self-isolation in her Toronto home.“My mother was spiritual and growing up, anytime someone asked her a question, ‘If God allows,’ was always part of her answer.
That was always included in her sentences and it wasn’t until I got older that I realized that line was a reminder of the fragility of life.”Now, the