Rose Ray Rodgers

Songs to say goodbye to my dad.

With courage, hope, and love to:

Raymond E. Martin Jr.

Ray

I’m self-taught when it comes to music. Thank ​you to my incredible poetry teachers Megan ​Freeman and Kristie Betts Letter for teaching ​me so much about writing.

Right now I’m in between jobs after deciding to ​withdraw from graduate school at Teachers ​College Columbia University. After working in ​tech for years, I decided to retrain as a therapist. ​That’s a long story you might be interested in ​hearing one day. I got in trouble for antiwar ​protesting. (I oppose the actions of Hamas, the ​actions Benjamin Netanyahu undertakes in the ​name of the state of Israel, and how the USA ​continues to get involved in colonialist or oil-​related wars.) Here’s a preview.

My father committed suicide when I was fourteen years old.

These albums are written for an all-ages audience because kids lose their parents in our cruel world. I wrote my songs with that audience in mind: there’s some swearing but nothing I wasn’t exposed to as a child roaming the wilds of the internet.

Please note that the songs talk about love, loss, heartbreak, and death.