There is grit in the voice of Allyson Galloway. скачать в хорошем качестве

There is grit in the voice of Allyson Galloway.

It’s a grit that seems to indicate that the wife and mother of Two has seen far too much in her life thus far, a grit that seems to stem from a pain that remains in her tender heart, a grit that finds its way into every note she sings and every lyric she writes. It’s also her grit that makes her beautiful. “Just because they say you come from trash, doesn’t me that’s where you belong”. Born on the wrong side of Memphis, Galloway was the 1 st child of a woman addicted to drugs and a father that was never around. When he was, he held in his hand a Dasani water bottle to replace the beer that he was, used too. Technically, she was to attend the Catholic school situated just under a half of a mile from her home. But each day, she would instead find herself curled up on the floor of the walk-in closet she called her bedroom. “It was a mess, all of it.” When she was seven years old, Galloway’s grandparents took her in. Soon, Galloway was attending school and making friends, but just as her young self-began to feel as if she was finally turning the corner, the speaker located in her classroom said she needed to come down to the office. It was there that the then nine-year-old found out her father was dead. She didn’t cry at the news, because her grandparents were all she had known. She didn’t cry when she was forced to tell her mom after school. “I watched her act like her whole world had crumbled, but never once did she ask if I was okay.” Galloway spent her teenage years playing basketball, volleyball and softball, while also becoming increasingly active in the church. She went to Wednesday youth group and volunteered to help with Saturday funerals, searching to somehow find a foundation underneath her. The music is what she loved the most about the Catholic church. As the years went by, her grandparents got sicker and sicker and soon, Galloway found herself packing up her bibles and heading back to her mother’s house that was now filled with two siblings, extreme amounts of dirty dishes and roaches everywhere. How could she take care of these kids when she was barely taking care of me? Through the years, arguments grew, and she was overwhelmed with responsibility. She was once again failing school due to absences and so were her sisters. She got her first boyfriend at the age of 15, and for the first time, Galloway felt as if she had found someone who could protect her from the craziness. But he too came from chaos in his own home, but soon, he ran off on vacation with another girl, and Galloway found herself in the arms of the man who would ultimately be her husband. They fell in love within weeks of meeting and became best friends. They became increasingly close in the next few months and before they knew it, they were expecting a baby boy. “He was born into the storm, but he became the rainbow.” Her mom was on food stamps, with the first of the month spent gorging on food and at the end of the month scraping ice out of the freezer. Galloway knew she could not raise her child in that environment. She immediately moved in with her now husband, after the child was born. Galloway graduated from high school at the age of 17 just a few short months after her son was born. Galloway got a job waiting tables at a local restaurant, but her twenties were her years to rebel following a far too cruel life. “ I’m not proud of what I’ve done, but I have changed in so many ways.” She ultimately decided to attend college to pursue a career first in nursing and then completed in science. “I tried TikTok because it was fun, who knew it would Explode like this.” She lived her life for strangers to see, and the strangers became friends who seemed to care for her in a way that others did not. One morning, with her hair uncombed and her home a shambles, Galloway began to sing the Jelly Roll hit “Save Me,” and her following exploded. They loved her voice. She ended up meeting Jelly Roll in a random Urban Outfitters in Knoxville, and her TikTok exploded even more. “I went to a Jelly Roll concert, and there were 20,000 people there. But I had 90,000 followers on TikTok. That’s when I knew I had to do something more.” That something more is music, as Galloway now finds herself on a budding music career driven by a tragic life but an honest heart. Music serves as her therapy, and therapy for her TikTok following that find themselves comforted daily by a girl from Tennessee who has decided to put her dreams first, ahead of the pain that remains. She now serves as a motivation for all those who have been hurt or abused or treated as less then. “Once I decided to do music, everything else fell into place.”