A new cover is coming — but it’s not really about the music. Or rather, it’s about what music has always been best at: making the invisible visible.

The song, my rendition of “Another Day In Paradise”, is a homage to Phil Collins and his beautiful body of work. Growing up, his voice had a way of reaching something unspoken — emotion that didn’t ask permission before it arrived. That feeling is exactly what I wanted to channel here, because the subject of this song demands nothing less.

My dad experienced homelessness in Washington, D.C. in the 1990s. The streets there, then, were not gentle. Watching him navigate that — and later watching him find his way to stability — taught me something I didn’t have words for as a kid, but understand now: being acknowledged matters. Being seen by another person is not a small thing. It might be the most fundamental thing.

Years later, talking to homeless individuals in New York City, that lesson came back to me in a new form. These conversations were not what I expected. People shared wisdom. They cracked jokes. They asked how I was doing. They even saved my life on several occasions. They reminded me that the margin between circumstance and connection is thinner than we like to believe.

Angels in disguise — that’s the phrase that kept coming to mind. Not in a sentimental way, but in the most literal sense: people offering something real, something human, in a moment when society had turned its face away.

The smallest gestures carry more weight than we realize. Eye contact. A nod. Saying someone’s name back to them when they tell it to you. These are not grand acts. They cost nothing. And yet they can remind a person that they exist in someone else’s world — that they are not a fixture of the sidewalk but a human being with a story.

This song is my attempt to hold that reminder in a form that travels. Music crosses distances that a conversation can’t always reach. If it lands somewhere and shifts the way someone walks down a street tomorrow — if it makes them slow down, look up, meet somebody’s eyes — then it has done exactly what it was made to do.

What’s your way of making someone feel seen today?

I’d genuinely love to know. Leave a comment, share this, or just carry the question with you.

“Another Day In Paradise” drop exclusively on Bandcamp June 5, 2026.