Indie Artist "Firerose" Has Turned Personal Challenges Into Purpose and Light With Her Latest Release

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

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4.6 • 107 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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About this episode's guest Indie Artist FIREROSE. The definitive version of her album's title track, "Shining Armor (Rise Again)" marks a powerful new chapter - one of independence, renewal, and self-rescue - and anchors the larger story she's finally ready to share publicly for the first time. That story continues next month with her new podcast, No One Asked Her, a series named for how the world once decided she didn't need to be heard. Firerose is a survivor who has lived through more than her share of hardship - addiction, abuse, and years of being silenced in relationships - yet has emerged with her faith, strength, and perspective intact. She's smart, passionate, and deeply thoughtful, with a story that deserves to be heard on her own terms. Born and raised in Sydney, music was her refuge amid a childhood marked by sadness and confusion. As a kid, she filled notebooks with lyrics, turning pain into songs. That survival instinct carried her across the world to Los Angeles, through addiction and a two-month stint in LA County jail that ultimately led to faith and sobriety in 2016. Even while trapped in controlling relationships that kept her from steering her own career, her voice still reached millions with charting singles and performances on Good Morning America, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and The Grand Ole Opry. Now, with her new single and upcoming podcast, Firerose is finally telling her story in full - standing in her independence, her faith, and her truth. The title "Shining Armor" speaks to that turning point: after years of waiting for someone else to save her, she realized she had to be her own knight, fighting for her freedom, her music, and her life with God's strength behind her. Her podcast title, No One Asked Her, nods to the way she was often reduced to a one-dimensional figure in the tabloids - someone the world decided didn't need to be heard from. Now, she's claiming her voice and inviting others to do the same. Website www.firerosemusic.com Social Media www.Instagram.com/firerose Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hUvYMF6MBxiZVXjiglBPX?si=v3rJakPSRieeqGpShFuQJg About Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris The Music Matters Podcast is hosted by Darrell Craig Harris, a globally published music journalist, professional musician, and Getty Images photographer. Music Matters is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, and more. Each week, Darrell interviews renowned artists, musicians, music journalists, and insiders from the music industry. Visit us at: www.MusicMattersPodcast.comFollow us on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/musicmattersdh For inquiries, contact: musicmatterspodcastshow@gmail.com Support our mission via PayPal: www.paypal.me/payDarrell (voice over by Nigel J. Farmer

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris, talking about all things music
0:09.6	with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:54.8	Fires, how are you doing today? Hi, I'm really well. Thanks. How are you? I'm very good. I love your accent. I've always loved that Australian accent. That's so sweet. I really appreciate that. Oh, you're welcome. So you're a Sydney girl, born and raised in Sydney, and then you moved to Los Angeles, ended up in Nashville. There's a long history there that I'll let you talk about. So you have a lot going on. You have a new single that came out a couple of weeks ago, Shining Armor, Rise Again, which was released on October 31st, Halloween. And you also have a new podcast series, and it's No One Asked Her, which is, I think you said
0:59.4	that just launched.
1:01.1	So tell me about, tell me your story.
1:02.9	Tell me about growing up in Sydney and how you got interested in songwriting.
1:06.2	Yeah, for sure.
1:07.0	So, yeah, my podcast literally launched this week.
1:09.4	So it's like really exciting because,
1:13.0	you know, I'm sure you know, it's like it feels like every time you release a creative project
1:19.3	in the world, it's like a part of you that you're then sharing with everyone. And it's just,
1:24.3	it's exciting. It's scary. It's all the things, but, um, but it's been received
1:28.3	really well. So I'm extremely grateful for that. And I'm so excited about the guests I have
1:32.7	coming up. And, you know, it's, it's a, a new chapter in my, like, creative endeavors. And I'm,
1:37.5	I'm really grateful for that. Um, I grew up in Sydney and, uh, which is, you know,
1:43.7	obviously the, oh my gosh, the opposite end of the earth.
1:49.6	And like I moved to America when I was just 19 years old.
1:54.6	I didn't know a single soul.
1:56.8	I just always felt it deep in my spirit.
1:58.9	Like I'd been writing songs since as long as I can remember.
2:02.2	As soon as I could speak, I was writing songs to try and express my understanding of the world.
2:08.8	And I think like a lot of artists, you know, it's just our avenue and our way of trying to make sense of everything.
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