As any pet owner knows, the relationship between people and our pawed friends changes dramatically over time and the love between a pet and its owner is a unique one – and often responsible for saving one in challenging times. This is something that Andrew Spice shared with his late, beloved cat Bea, who he pays tribute to with his new single ‘Gentle Sentinel’. LISTEN HERE.
‘Gentle Sentinel’ is a touching, delicate ballad which conveys the love that Andrew and Bea had. His soft tender voice, plaintive piano and a stirring string arrangement by the Grammy nominee Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa’s ‘Don’t Stop Now’) tells the tale of a ‘Gentle Sentinel’ who provided a support that wasn’t “quite humanly” but was just as powerful as an embrace from a loved one. The pair spent almost twenty years together across three different cities.
Andrew’s 2003 OutMusic Award-nominated debut album ‘Pretty Demons’ made him one of Canada’s brightest new talents, but his life trajectory took a different turn and this became the first song that he wrote after 15 years.
Andrew says, “‘Gentle Sentinel’ is the first song I wrote in 15 years, and that brought me back to music after my very long hiatus. It is a ballad for my cat, Bea, who was 18 years old when the song was written and who has sadly since passed away. It is in essence about the ways that our animal companions uniquely and unconditionally help us through grief.”
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