Benny V’s “Ocean Born” pairs a spoken-word passage about grief with a mood he describes as both sad and uplifting, aiming to turn painful memories into something beautiful. The personal thread comes from losing his mother and grandmother a month apart during lockdown.
First issued as a single, the track later anchored a four-track Dance Concept EP of the same name. Rather than treating the spoken word as decoration, Benny V makes its message of finding light in sadness central to the tune.
