“Bad times make strong women,” she sings on the soulful track written about her mother and grandmother
Judith Hill is paying tribute to the sacrifice and fight of the powerful women who raised her. The Grammy winner (and Prince protégé) debuts the video for “Dame de la Lumière,” written about her mother and grandmother’s perseverance, with Rolling Stone Tuesday.
“Dame De La Lumière speaks to the strength and resilience of women who have endured hardships and have come out of the fire victorious and unstoppable,” she says of the track.
“I remember how they overcame the impossible and survived because they were determined to be there for their families,” she adds in a press release. “Standing on their shoulders, I carry on. I close my eyes and see the faces of every woman in history who turned weeds into leaves of evergreen. They stand taller than the mountains. If they can do it, I can do it. Bad times make strong women! This is my mantra.”
The black-and-white video sees Hill singing the track’s powerful lyrics into the camera before both women join her on-screen as she repeats the line: “Bad times make strong women.”
“Dame de la Lumière” is the latest single off her upcoming album, Letters from a Black Widow, which is slated for April 26. She last released singles “Runaway Train” in September 2023 and Flame” in January this year.
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“This album is a journey through the darkest period of my life,” she tells Rolling Stone. “It captures the horror, reckoning, revelation and levity that followed it.”
Hill is currently on tour with her family band, with scheduled stops in cities such as Seattle, Chicago, Cleveland, and Los Angeles through late April.
