Zoë Vera is a courageous and resilient woman, and her debut EP ‘Live Harder’ is testament to the profound well of quiet strength she drew on to survive and overcome trauma – so that she could emerge, against the odds, a stronger and more visible version of herself.
The final and title track on the EP, ‘Live Harder’ is about hitting a point of two choices: let what’s been done to you destroy you, or recognise that you’ve already survived the worst.
It’s about realising your resilience. It’s about accepting that you can’t control people. You can’t stop cruelty, and you can’t stop the existence of darkness, but you can control how you respond.
And ‘Live Harder’is that response.
On the track, Zoë: says “’Live Harder’ is about choosing how you respond when life tries to break you. I can’t control what people do, but I can control how I live. And I choose to live fully, loudly, and unapologetically, despite everything.”
Recently making Rolling Stone’s Best NZ Music of the Week list, and with debut interviews on The Hits and The Edge, Auckland singer-songwriter Zoë Vera is set to release her debut EP Live Harder on April 24th.
Following her previous Live Harder single releases, ‘White’, ‘Good Enough’, ‘Twelve Feet Under’ and ‘Dizzying’, the final track, ‘Live Harder’, completes the EP and its harrowing, life-changing and trauma-informed narrative.
The Live Harder EP was produced by highly respected and multi-talented local musician Danny McCrum, with the single ‘Live harder’ featuring keys by renowned Los Angeles-based musician Alexander Burke, who between them, have worked with heavy-hitting music legends such as Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Bryan Ferry, to name a few.
Instead of shutting down, Zoë chooses to rise. Because sometimes the most powerful form of resilience, and the best kind of revenge is simply refusing to be diminished, and choosing to live harder anyway. To live louder, fuller, and more freely than ever before.
