LATE BLOOMERS ROCK STAR MENTALITY: Why failure is your best friend and audacity is your greatest asset
Feb 5, 2025
Roxanne Emery, known as RØRY, is a singer-songwriter whose journey reflects resilience and creativity. She discusses her 20-year battle with trauma and addiction, emphasizing how sobriety reignited her music career. RØRY shares her experiences with failure and the audacity it took to start anew, offering listeners powerful advice: embrace failure, be bold, and act like the success you seek. She also touches on the unique challenges faced by late bloomers in the creative world, making this conversation relatable and inspiring for dreamers everywhere.
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The Rory Project Was A Slow Burn
- RØRY registered the Rory project in 2018 but didn't release her first single until 2021.
- The project began the same year she got sober and grew from years of earlier bands and features.
Stage Persona Reclaims Split-Off Parts
- Rory is the split-off part of Rox that contains aggression, confidence and competitiveness.
- Playing Rory lets Rox reclaim those parts and perform with amplified boldness.
Costume Enables Authentic Performance
- Authenticity for RØRY lives primarily in the music and lyrics, not the costume.
- The stage outfit functions as a 'superhero' tool to enable performance confidence.