Songwriter Nini Iris sings about her life. At 28, it’s already filled with a long journey.
Ten years ago, the then-teenager packed her suitcase in her home country of Georgia and used her savings to fly to the United States, moving to New York City with nowhere to stay.
“I was just so eager and determined to, like, have my music career here that I didn’t really care about anything, like, I didn’t care about like, not having a place to live,” Iris recalled.
She spent her first few nights sleeping on the subway.
“I had money to stay at the hotel, but I had bigger plans for
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