Veronica returns to the spotlight 7 years after cancer diagnosis

Veronica Mehta, a London-born singer-songwriter and R&B/bhangra artist, determined to inform the world she’d had breast most cancers as a part of our Stand As much as Most cancers marketing campaign in 2018. 

However after talking out about her most cancers expertise, she withdrew from her public life to focus on her three youngsters and therapeutic herself. 

Now, 7 years after analysis, she is returning with a brand new single, which catalogues her most cancers journey and delivers the message there may be life after most cancers. 

“A rush of feelings”

“I feel initially, I felt overwhelmed by all the things that had occurred, bodily, mentally and emotionally, and it has taken seven years to get myself again collectively,” Veronica mentioned. 

“I knew I needed to do one thing to show that detrimental right into a constructive. Music has at all times been my past love, so I went again into the studio with my producer Rishi Wealthy, and what got here flooding out in a rush of feelings was a tune, Gone.” 

Gone, and the AI video that accompanies it, tracks her most cancers journey from her residence life in London on the prime of her profession, to the second the darkish shadows of a most cancers analysis threaten to envelop her.  

It follows her to iconic locations in Mumbai – Bollywood and a particular temple – and to New York, the place she’d visited as a part of a US tour she’d beforehand launched into.  

“These shadows are stuffed with worry, however additionally they push me to battle,” she mentioned.