{"id":97585,"date":"2026-09-22T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=97585"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:43:19","slug":"vanessa-forero-turns-gospel-fire-and-vintage-soul-into-modern-day-joy-with-new-album-days-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2026\/09\/vanessa-forero-turns-gospel-fire-and-vintage-soul-into-modern-day-joy-with-new-album-days-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Forero Turns Gospel Fire And Vintage Soul Into Modern-Day Joy With New Album, ‘Days Before’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Set for release this Friday, September 25, ‘Days Before’ is the soulful new album from Vanessa Forero<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

‘Days Before’ is available to pre-save here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a very successful album-launch tour, Vanessa Forero is proud to present her new album, ‘Days Before’, which she was able to complete thanks to the contributions of her fans, and Kickstarter supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eleven tracks on the album album bring together the memories which have had a deep impact on her life along with inspiration from early 2000s soul pop, as well as old-school gospel. Employing big melodies and deeply personal storyteling, Vanessa Forero and her vocalists share tales of faith, love, and gratitude. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Days Before’ was mixed by Grammy award winning producer, Christian Castagno, who Vanessa met in the mountain village in Colombia, where she has lived for the past seven years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally from Yorkshire, Vanessa Forero has been composing music since she was a child, and started working as a professional musician in 2004. Since then her career has grown to span live music, film and television, and writing for major international broadcasts, and cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of her life in music, Vanessa built herself a home in the middle of a jaguar reserve, in the mountains of Colombia. She has lived there for the past seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Days Before’ is out this Friday, September the 25th, and is available to pre-save here<\/a>. You can find out more about Vanessa Forero and her music online on Instagram<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, and Apple Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Set for release this Friday, September 25, ‘Days Before’ is the soulful new album from Yorkshire artist, Vanessa Forero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":97586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Set for release this Friday, September 25, 'Days Before' is the soulful new album from Vanessa Forero.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Vanessa Forero Turns Gospel Fire And Vintage Soul Into Modern-Day Joy With New Album, 'Days Before'","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Set for release this Friday, September 25, 'Days Before' is the soulful new album from Vanessa Forero.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21448,7,21455,9,21445],"tags":[111,1813,33895,3862,11720,144,77,2189,116,3918],"class_list":["post-97585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music","category-new-albums","category-new-releases","category-reviews","tag-album","tag-album-review","tag-days-before","tag-gospel","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-release","tag-review","tag-vanessa-forero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-pnX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19389,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/04\/were-all-in-the-same-boat-ep-talks-to-vanessa-forero\/","url_meta":{"origin":97585,"position":0},"title":"We’re All In The Same Boat: EP Talks To Vanessa Forero","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"02\/04\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in December we featured the Essential Weekly Playlist of Vanessa Forero. 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