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MARVIN x Cam: After a whirlwind few years of A-list collaborations, the country savant is searching for inner healing.

The first track on country musician Cam’s recent album All Things Light is titled “Turns Out That I Am God.” It’s an eyebrow-raising claim, but she delivers it with such chutzpah that it’s not entirely surprising that, in conversation on a recent fall day, she doubles down. Cam believes she is God, and everyone reading this is God too.  

“I feel like when you turn your mind off, you go back to knowing that we all, in our bodies, are a part of something. No one is separate,” the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter says. 

It’s a bold, invigorating idea: We each belong to something, and we each belong to each other. That idea is the through-line of Cam’s recent album All Things Light — an innovative album blending traditional country sounds with folk and pop elements as it explores life’s unknowable questions. Prior to this project, the LA-born musician released celebrated albums like 2020’s The Otherside, and co-wrote A-list pop hits like Sam Smith’s “Palace” and Miley Cyrus’ “Maybe You’re Right.” More recently, she collaborated with Beyoncé on Cowboy Carter’s “American Requiem” and “Tyrant.” This new album is a natural next step for Cam, created from periods of thoughtful reflection over the last few years.

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