After Life actress says making music has been healing
If you do a search for Mandeep Dhillon’s work, you’ll find plenty of acting credits.
Ricky Gervais’s After Life, Peacock, Avoidance and the recently concluded CSI: Vegas.
But now she’s turning her creative hand to something a little different.
Having released a new song Roll It Up, Mandeep tells BBC Asian Network being described as a music artist “feels really right”.
“Ask seven-year-old Mandeep what she would be, she’d definitely be a music artist.
“But then I obviously went down the whole acting route which has been great and I’m enjoying my career so far,” she says.
‘Allow yourself to feel joy and pain’
The music itch has always been there, and she describes Roll It Up as quite a personal, “deep song”.
“I’ve been through a lot of stuff in my life, pain in my life. So to be able to turn that to art has been great.”
Mandeep says Roll It Up is about a near-death experience of a loved one.
“They missed death by I think an hour. And this person, unfortunately, deals with addiction and mental health.
“A lot of my friends deal with mental health and addiction. And I’ve seen it so closely… even myself, I’ve had addiction problems in the past.
“But it’s a whole process going through that and working out your trauma and healing your inner child,” she says.
