How to Draw the Wind
New Album out November 20, 2026
The wind is ever present, carving the land, bringing the rain, and then blue skies again. The air moves around us and within us. The wind knows no borders, no city lines, no names. The winds move the soil, the seeds, the sounds, the eagles. It creates and destroys.
In 2018, while in the final weeks of my first pregnancy, a song came to me in the shower. Songs often arrive unexpectedly, but this timing was quite inopportune as I was soaking wet and my head was full of shampoo. So I wouldn’t lose the words and the melody, I carefully moved my pregnant body from the shower to find my phone and capture the song, How to Draw the Wind.
The words themselves made me think, literally, is it possible to draw the wind? For the wind to reveal itself, it needs witnesses: clouds, trees, leaves, paper, hair. The winds are forces that have been feared as they carve, twist, pull, carry, create and destroy. The wind is also a welcoming presence, as a gentle breeze moves through a hot day.
This isn’t an album of wind songs, but it just so happens that this collection, written between 2011 and 2026, has the wind blowing through it. Just like our days.
The lyrics are filled with questions, I love a good question and am guided by the words of Rilke on this subject. He writes in Letters to a Young Poet: ‘Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you, because then you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.’
We are moving at speeds so unnatural that forethought and reflection have become terms of the past. My hope is with these songs and that with this writing you are able to take a deep breath, sit, listen, read, enjoy and truly reflect on this life and this earth that we share.
What is worth protecting? What is worth remembering?
And so we conspire with time, and we live with the winds.
Album art by Becky Stevens
About
Kendy is a singer, songwriter, and poet whose work moves between music, poetry, and ceremony. Described by the New York Times as "the lovely-voiced Kendy Gable," she creates work that lives both on stage and beyond it, weaving voice, story, and melody into performances, ceremonies, and interactive experiences that are an invitation to question and go deep within yourself. Her music has taken her from Broadway's New World Stages, the 13th Street Theater, and Joe's Pub in New York City, to major festival stages including Lollapalooza Berlin, Body & Soul Festival (Ireland), and Latitude Festival (UK). As a singer-songwriter and actress, she has performed throughout Europe, the United States, and Australia, building a body of work rooted in emotional honesty and vocal artistry. Kendy is set to release her fourth full-length album in November 2026.
She lives with her husband and two young sons in Berlin, Germany.
Singing is Being
Kendy’s newsletter filled with writing, music, inspiration & news.