In 2019, Natalie Bergman’s father and stepmother were killed by a drunk driver. The tragedy unmoored Bergman, sending her on a wild spiritual retreat out
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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, LAST FAREWELL )
NATALIE BERGMAN: (Singing) The pain in my chest was blinding. I don t want to live without him. How do I learn how to die again? It all ended with a crash. Tell me, heaven, where was your grace?
SIMON: The sudden loss of her father and stepmother in 2019 made her take a fresh view of her faith and her music - the journey that she presents in her new album, Mercy. Natalie Bergman joins us now from Los Angeles. Thanks so much for being with us.
BERGMAN: Thank you for having me. I ve been looking forward to this conversation.
Liza Lentini | May 5, 2021 - 1:11 pm
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The first song Natalie Bergman wrote for her debut solo album
Mercy, “Home At Last,” describes an interpretive spiritual, ethereal home, and was inspired by the 2019 car accident that took the lives of Natalie’s father and stepmother. In the song, she asks:
“Answer my prayer, when a great man falls and the skies collapse, where’s the joy in this world, is he home at last?”
One half of the successful duo Wild Belle (with brother Elliot), Natalie turned to her music and her faith in her quest for hope in the wake of tragedy. The 12-track