Chicago native, Hazel moved across the country to
Los Angeles right around the time the pandemic began. Living in a new city during a lockdown can lead to a flurry of mixed emotions, but she found a way to cope in music.
“I started out the pandemic completely alone in a city that I had only lived in for 6 months at the time and some days were really difficult,” she says. “One of the things that really got me through those times was the song ‘It’s All Right’ by
Sam Cooke. I listened to it almost every night and had a glass of wine and cooked myself dinner and it really felt like everything would be okay (it was, and it will be). I wanted to make a song that would make people feel the way that song made me feel, so I made ‘It’s All Right.’”