A Song for the Wounded: JILIAAN’s Releases New Single ‘Leave Me Be’

May 08, 2025

A Song for the Wounded: JILIAAN’s Releases New Single ‘Leave Me Be’

In the silence of a darkened room, JILIAAN's "Leave Me Be" emerges like a secret whispered, trembling on the edge of breaking. Her voice — delicate as glass, yet cutting enough to slice through bone — floats above a crying piano, tracing the edges of wounds too deep to voice. The song is a reckoning with ghosts, a cry tangled in the folds of memory, where the past lingers like a shadow that refuses to release its grip. With each note, JILIAAN bares a soul marked by survival, and in doing so, she invites the listener to sit with the weight of what is often left unspoken.

Strings surge behind her, not to hide the hurt but to enfold it, to shape it and to imbue it with reverence. The arrangement rises and falls like a wave — now gentle, now crashing — tracking the landscape of a heart betrayed. There's something sacred in the exposure she offers, something valuable in its refusal to flinch. "Leave Me Be" is a plea for salvation, a tortured prayer in the guise of pained beauty. It's the voice of a person reaching for the light with hands that still tremble from the dark.

JILIAAN's path has been anything but ordinary. A Berlin-based artist of international roots, she bears with her in her music the burden of several homelands and the pain of never quite fitting in. Her classical background gives her songs timelessness, but her modern sensibility opens them so wide that raw emotion pours through. In every lyric, every bare crescendo, you hear a woman who has lived, traveled, seized bits of the world and fashioned something painfully hers of them.

With her debut EP set to drop in May, JILIAAN stands to become a part of that select group of artists who do more than entertain — who reveal. Her voice is less a note, but rather an instrument, one that gives utterance to the bruised and beautiful things we far too rarely give voice to. To all of those who have ever wandered lost trying to find where they fit, JILIAAN offers not just music, but solace: the assurance that even in our most broken places, there is still a song to be sung.