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Illenium Shares the Story of Addiction, Loss & Love Behind His Track ‘Brave Soul’

Illenium shares "Brave Soul's" backstory of addiction, loss and love. Get the details.

Three years after its release, Illenium is sharing the emotional backstory behind his track “Brave Soul,” the closer from his 2021 album Fallen Embers. Together, they eventually wrote a song that turned into “Brave Soul,” with this music written in memory of Jordan and Emma’s late brother Braden, who they lost to an overdose in 2018. Illenium opened up about his journey of finding sobriety and going on to became a stadium filling artist in his Billboard cover story this past March.

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