Rising Pop Artist Zoë Vera Unveils An Intimate And Empowering Debut EP With Live Harder

Five tracks of electro-pop detailing one woman’s highly personal journey of processing and transforming extraordinary internalised pain into a powerful, healing musical response, as she embarked on the intense journey of rebuilding her life.

ZOË VERA is a courageous and resilient woman, and her debut EP LIVE HARDER is testament to the profound well of quiet strength she drew on to survive and overcome trauma – so that she could emerge, against the odds, a stronger and more visible version of herself.

The final and title track on the EP ‘Live Harder’ is about hitting a point of two choices: let what’s been done to you destroy you, or recognise that you’ve already survived the worst.

It’s about realising your resilience. It’s about accepting that you can’t control people. You can’t stop cruelty, and you can’t stop the existence of darkness, but you can control how you respond.

And ‘Live Harder’ is that response.

On the track, Zoë says: “’Live Harder’ is about choosing how you respond when life tries to break you. I can’t control what people do, but I can control how I live. And I choose to live fully, loudly, and unapologetically, despite everything.”

Recently making Rolling Stone’s Best NZ Music of the Week list, and with debut interviews on The Hits and The Edge, Zoë’s previous Live Harder single releases ‘White', 'Good Enough’, ‘Twelve Feet Under’ and ‘Dizzying’, are completed by the final track ‘Live Harder’, fulfilling its harrowing, life-changing and trauma-informed narrative.

The Live Harder EP was produced by highly respected and multi-talented local musician Danny McCrum, with the single featuring keys by renowned Los Angeles-based musician Alexander Burke, who between them have worked with heavy-hitting music legends such as Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Bryan Ferry, to name but a few.

Instead of emotionally shutting down and making her life smaller, Zoë chooses to rise. Because sometimes the most powerful form of resilience, and the best kind of revenge, is simply refusing to be diminished and choosing to live life harder anyway. To live louder, fuller and more freely than ever before.

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