You're scheduled to be who they think you are all the time. drive and the competition of the music industry. Things just kept happening, and I knew I needed to take a break, but there's that. My finger popped out of place onstage, and I ended up in the hospital in D.C. "But then finally, somewhere in 2009, things just weren't right. I just lost it, and I don't remember everything that happened, really. It was at the end of 2006 I had a breakdown in the dressing room. Here, India.Arie speaks with Conan about the tension between the act and artist - and performs songs from the new album. "There are some things that I've wanted to say on records that I wanted to say, and a lot of that - kind of all of that - is on SongVersation." "I've never said anything that I didn't want to say on a record, ever," she tells NPR's Neal Conan. Four years later, she's returned with a new album called SongVersation, as well as a new sense of who she is as an artist. In 2009, feeling boxed in by the expectations of the music industry, she says she confronted herself by asking, "Who am I?" To figure out the answer, she embarked on a self-imposed hiatus. Since her debut, she's been nominated for 21 Grammys - and won four - while selling 10 million albums worldwide. When singer-songwriter India.Arie broke through in 2001, her debut album Acoustic Soul went double platinum, and her music and influence continued to gain momentum in the years that followed. India.Arie reinvents herself on her new album, SongVersation.
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