BURSTFor years, the Australian singer felt people expected her to make statements more than music – but after a fresh start in Los Angeles, she’s finding ways to let the light in
This isn’t a story about a mouthy broad who moved to California and got gentle. But it’s not not that either.
The musician Georgia Maq moved from Melbourne to Los Angeles two years ago, after saying goodbye to her band, Camp Cope, and working as a nurse for two years during the pandemic. The move was prompted as much by television (“I watched The L Word and thought, I want to live in Hollywood”) as an urgent need to not spend her entire life in the place she was born: “I was sick of who I was, really. I wanted a different life for myself.”
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