Hey listeners, I'm Elise Hugh.

Every Tuesday this month we're bringing you music episodes from the It's Been a Minute Vault.

You're about to hear a conversation from last year between former host Sam Sanders and singer Yeba.

A heads up before we get started, today's episode addresses suicide, grief, and a frank discussion of mental health.

Back in 2016 the singer-songwriter Yeba performed one of her original songs at an intimate venue in New York.

This song is called My Mind.

It was just Yeba and an acoustic guitar and that voice.

A video of this performance hit YouTube soon after and it quickly went viral.

A lot of people, all of a sudden, were talking about Yeba.

Ed Sheeran was one of the millions to watch it and he later said it made him cry.

But shortly after that electrifying career-making performance, this performance

that kind of changed everything for Yeba, something else happened.

A thing that would change everything in a very different way.

And then was it three weeks after that song came out?

There was some tragedy. Can you tell our folks what that was?

My mother committed suicide.

Yeah.

This is Yeba, which is just her real name Abby spelled backwards.

Yeba is a nickname her mother had called her.

I didn't really, I felt like I had lost everything.

I had to go through the first half of my 20s just missing my mom and denial that she was gone really.

And so just as doors were opening for her, Yeba slowed down.

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