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Claire Leslie Is Writing the Kind of Music She Needed Herself

Claire Leslie doesn’t write songs from the other side of the struggle.While plenty of Christian artists wait until they’ve found the breakthrough to tell the story, Leslie is comfortable sitting in the uncertainty. If she’s still wrestling with anxiety, she’ll write about anxiety. If she’s still waiting on God, she’ll write about waiting. For the 24-year-old singer-songwriter, pretending to have everything figured out would feel less honest than admitting she’s still in the middle of the process