Spending time behind bars is usually a traumatic and embarrassing experience for many people. That was the case with Duchiez, but the deejay’s eight days in jail inspired A Week And A Day, her five-song EP which was released on April 21.
Duchiez, who co-produced the project with Jaboog, said she wrote the songs while in jail in late 2022. According to the New Jersey-based artist, she was scheduled to appear in court in April last year for a minor offence but did not show.
After performing at an event last September, she was arrested and jailed for eight days. Duchiez did not give details of the case but said her brief incarceration was spent writing songs which became A Week And A Day.
“My thoughts when writing was home, being in my comfort zone and how much I took for granted. Even as much as a pencil and a piece of paper. I didn’t have anything to write them down, so they were organized in my head at first and then about six days in, they transferred me to the halfway house and that’s where I physically wrote and completed them,” she explained.
God is Real, Crisis and Humble Child are some of the songs from A Week And A Day.
Duchiez was raised in east Kingston and Portland, a parish in rural Jamaica. She migrated to the United States in 2007 and has lived in New Jersey since that time.
Although she began recording five years ago, it was not until 2020 that her first song, Rolling Stone, was released.
Return, Chancy and Bag of Money are some of Duchiez’ previous songs.
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