
Soulful songstress Nina Lee has released a lyric video for “Airborne,” the first single from her debut EP Snapshots. The song celebrates her great-grandfather’s service as a veteran in the United States Military, concentrating on the everlasting love story of Nina’s great-grandmother and her soldier husband, who served as a member of the 101st Airborne “Screaming Eagles” during World War II. The song’s intimate lyrics chronicle the couple’s first encounters, the love letters the couple exchanged during their time apart during the war, and their marriage, family and bond, as Mary, “the woman with the piercing blue eyes” stood by her “young boy who returns as a shell shocked man” through his “purple hearts and bad dreams.”
Nina’s stunning, smoky vocals and powerhouse delivery, which Variance Magazinecompared to Adele and Amy Winehouse, soar throughout “Airborne.” The song highlights how Snapshots, which Huffington Post declares is “sure to pull on your heartstrings,”taps into a depth that is well beyond Nina’s years, telling vivid, moving stories about everything from the power of family, to the effects of bullying, to the importance of inner strength.