Barbara recorded her first single at 75. Her voice carries the weight of a life that hasn’t been easy. Bullying, violence, years of survival that most people don’t talk about openly. “Music has always been one of my main healing forces,” she says. “The best way to process pain and turn it into beauty.”

Her soulful rendition of My Chemical Romance‘s I’m Not Okay (I Promise) is not a reinterpretation so much as a confession, sung by someone who has actually lived inside that feeling for decades.