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“For the first time, I’m trying to talk about it in a way that makes me feel like I have ownership over it.”
Victoria Canal has just received the Rising Star gong at the Ivor Novello awards, becoming the fourth consecutive female songwriter to do so.
The 24-year-old was born with one arm, and she tells Newsbeat music helps her “process” her disability.
“I think I’ve been navigating the whole ‘having a limb difference as someone on stage thing’.”
German-born Spanish-American Victoria recently shared a vulnerable song about having a disability.
She describes “old wounds and trauma” having an impact on her “for a very long time”, but says she’s writing about it “in a way that is helping me let it go”.
“I don’t think there will be a day where I get over it,” she says.
“But at least saying it out loud helps me understand that not I’m not the only one feeling that way.
“And it feels very empowering.”
