Kaya Usher, Downie’s widow, just released the single Love Clicks, credited to Kaya Usher and the Family Band
, the dream has finally happened. Kaya Usher, Downie’s widow, just released the singleAll This Is“When the kids were younger, we always talked about the day there would be time to throw a drum set in a station wagon and have some fun as a family band,” Usher, 54, tells The Globe and Mail. “It’s been four years now since Gord crossed over. There’s been a lot of healing since that time, and a lot of healing actually that happened in the making of the record.
Drew and Usher first met in 2013 through Downie, who would die of the brain cancer glioblastoma at age 53 in 2017. “We have a lovely friendship, and I’m grateful for it,” says Drew., into a song. Last February, she and Drew finally got around to working on it at the Bathouse. “Before we knew it, we had all these songs in a few days, includingThere had been little in the way of preparation for the sessions. Drew’s idea was simply to set Usher up with sounds.
Married to one of the country’s most prominent rock stars, Usher maintained privacy herself. She became part of public discussion only when her husband disclosed that many of the lyrics from the 2012 Tragically Hip album“I think that’s the only time he really talked about me,” Usher says, referring to Downie’s televised interview with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley. “I appreciated it. I knew why he was doing it. It wasn’t for any other reason than to be helpful.
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