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CHICAGO — Singer-songwriter GBO wears his heart on his sleeve and talks about the grief and loss of beloved friends while talking about the positive memories these relationships left behind in his latest single “Gone Too Soon.”
GBO has long found music to be therapy, helping him cope with a hard childhood in family struggling to keep its head above water when it came to money, and as an adult he used music once again to help him cope when he lost some friends who passed on far too soon.
“A couple of my close friends I grew up with, they passed away and so I was thinking about them and I was hearing that melody and it made me think about writing a song,” GBO said. “That’s how it started. It’s really about the people I’ve loved in the past that passed away. At first I was going to make it specific to one person, then I had a couple of other people pass away so it made more sense to make it broader.”
GBO said his stage name, pronounced Gee-Bo, was inspired by a four-year stint in the U.S. Air Force, when his fellow service members had a hard time with his given name, Gilberto.
“They were butchering my name so they said we’ll just call you GBO,” he said. “I kind of stuck with that as a pen name.”
GBO grew up in a musical family and started writing music when he was 12. He even had a song he wrote produced when he was 14 years old.
That’s when music became his therapy.
“I grew up in a bad neighborhood, I grew up in what people would say is an economically challenged situation,” GBO said. “Then I just wanted to get away and I would listen to music for therapy. Music was one of my outlets when I was really young. I just always liked it and that stuck with me. It was happiness, I listened because it was fun, like therapy.”
GBO said people reacted positively to his music when he was young, giving him the confidence to pursue it as a profession.
GBO said he’s working right now to find his brand in his music, and “Gone Too Soon,” is part of that search.
He said he weaves in and out of different genres of music, including hip hop, trap, pop and R&B.
“My older songs are more like hip hop songs, more energy songs, more energetic,” GBO said. “Different kinds of music attract different kinds of emotions, it can be fun or sad. I think mainly my sound is laid back, that’s a good word, they’re laid back sounds.”
GBO said he hopes people learn a simple lesson from “Gone Too Soon.”
“I think the message is like you love someone and you miss them and you try to be positive and know that’s not the end yet,” he said. “Don’t let it drag you down, you’ll have your grief period obviously but I think in the end I think there’s positivity in your memories.”
This single is a taste of more music to come in the new year. Listeners can expect to hear more of the vivid stories GBO tells, all connected by the string of empathy that laces his music together.
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NETHERLANDS — August 26, 2026 — Brook Lynn is stepping into a new chapter with “Love Your Enemy,” an atmospheric alternative pop song that turns an intensely personal battle with anxiety into a message of self-acceptance. Written after her America’s Got Talent auditions, the song captures the internal conflict of facing the person who can be hardest to silence: yourself.
Built around cinematic production and emotionally restrained vocals, “Love Your Enemy” explores the disconnect between appearing fine in public and confronting difficult thoughts in private. The song’s central message is reflected in its chorus, where Brook Lynn sings about being “my own worst company” before arriving at its most hopeful realization: “They say, ‘Love your enemy,’ / So I’m learning how to love me.”
For Brook Lynn, that “enemy” is anxiety. Rather than presenting it as something that simply disappears, the song examines what it means to live with those thoughts while refusing to let them dictate what comes next.
“I always want to give a hopeful message in every song,” Brook Lynn explains. “I always first want to explain what is happening in your head and what you feel, and then, at the end, give a message that you can get out of this, and that anxiety doesn’t have to hold you back from all the things you want to achieve in your life.”
That message became especially significant when Brook Lynn made the decision to perform “Love Your Enemy” on America’s Got Talent. Known by many viewers for her stripped-back cover performances, she recognized that performing an original song on one of television’s biggest stages carried a different kind of risk. But she also knew she could not continue forward without showing audiences the artist behind the covers.
“I just thought it was really important to also show the world that I’m not just a cover singer,” she says. “I do want people to know that I write songs and I want to be an artist and put that out there.”
Brook Lynn performed “Love Your Enemy” during the America’s Got Talent quarterfinals, bringing the song’s story of anxiety and self-doubt directly to a massive live audience. Her journey on the show ended there, but the response made one thing clear: listeners wanted to hear more. Fans connected not only with her voice, but with the honesty behind the performance and the willingness to speak openly about emotions many people struggle to acknowledge themselves.
“I do want to be that person with my music as well for other people,” Brook Lynn says, describing her desire to write about real experiences and feelings. “I always want to be really real with everyone, like talk about deeper stuff, not surface level.”
“Love Your Enemy” arrives as Brook Lynn looks ahead to Tales From The Woods, an upcoming EP intended to introduce listeners to a broader picture of who she is as an artist. With only two original songs currently released, she says she is excited to share more music and continue developing the sound and emotional world introduced through “Love Your Enemy.”
The song is not a conclusion to Brook Lynn’s story. It is the beginning of a more open one—one where anxiety can be acknowledged without being allowed to take control, and where the feelings people are often afraid to say out loud can finally have a voice.
Listen to “Love Your Enemy,” which received promotional support from Starlight PR.
Brook Lynn creates music that feels intimate yet powerful, cinematic yet emotionally exposed. Blending atmospheric alternative pop with minimalist visual storytelling, her work explores vulnerability, isolation, emotional tension and human connection through a distinctly modern lens.
Raised in Wilp, a small town in the Netherlands, Brook Lynn grew up surrounded by silence, nature and isolation. Music became a private emotional outlet and a way to process feelings that were difficult to explain out loud. What began through stripped-back online performances evolved into a growing global audience drawn to her honesty and emotional depth.
For Brook Lynn, music is never just about being heard. It is about being understood.
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