Former En Vogue member Daybreak Robinson has been residing in her automobile in southern California for 3 years, the singer and actuality TV star revealed in a video posted to her YouTube channel this week.
Robinson, 59, was a founding member of the R&B/pop group that dominated the radio and MTV within the early Nineties with hits “Maintain On,” “Free Your Thoughts,” and several other different chart-topping hits. She departed the group for a second time in 2010 and joined the forged of R&B Divas: Los Angeles for its first season. In 2019, she reunited with En Vogue for on the Metropolis of Hope Gala.
On Tuesday, Robinson revealed among the particulars from her life since then in a video posted to her official YouTube channel, titled “YOUR NEW LIFE IS IN THE SCARY” on Tuesday.
“In case you had mentioned to me whereas I used to be in En Vogue, ‘You’ll be residing in your automobile, at some point,’ I’d be like: ‘Huh, no, I’m all the time gonna have an house. I can’t reside in my automobile. How can I try this?’ she informed viewers from contained in the automobile. “We are saying that we will’t do sure issues earlier than we even know we’re succesful.”
Robinson defined how in 2020, she was residing along with her dad and mom in Las Vegas, which the singer described as “great, till it wasn’t.” A falling out along with her mom, who she says took “numerous her anger out on me,” led her to maneuver out and into her automobile, the place she started to sleep for a month whereas nonetheless in Las Vegas.
Quickly, Robinson mentioned, her then-co-manager informed Robinson that she might stick with him in Los Angeles. However when she arrived, she says, there was not sufficient room within the house for her and her canine. The co-manager, who Robinson doesn’t title within the video, put her up in a resort for an evening — however that one night time turned eight months of residing out of a resort room for the Grammy-nominated singer. Throughout that interval, any house she would view could be rejected by the co-manager, she informed her viewers. After these eight months, she was fed up, believing that the co-manager was attempting to exert management over her.
“I informed my assistant at some point I’ve been researching automobile life, this complete group of people who reside of their automobiles…of their RVs, and a complete group of people who reside in vans… And I cherished what I used to be seeing. I simply thought, wow, these individuals, I can try this,” she mentioned.
Robinson then describes the day she drove out to Malibu, in what could be her dwelling since 2022. The solar was setting, and “Crusing” by Avant was enjoying on the radio, she recollects, including that she “didn’t remorse something.” However her first night time residing in her automobile was no cakewalk.
“I used to be simply scared that night time; that first night time was scary,” Robinson mentioned. “However then as I obtained to know what to do in my automobile and find out how to do it, like find out how to cowl my home windows. And also you don’t discuss to sure individuals. You’re cautious of telling individuals that you simply’re alone, as a girl, particularly, and that I’m a star. I don’t simply reveal that to individuals. In case you don’t know who I’m, I’m not telling you that half.”
Robinson emphasizes within the video that she shouldn’t be in search of sympathy and that her announcement about the place she’s been residing isn’t any publicity stunt. She is, nevertheless, filming her experiences with the hope of creating a documentary out of the expertise. However the as soon as high-flying member of a world-famous lady group can also be trustworthy about the place her life is in the meanwhile.
“You might have heard of one thing known as Darkish Night time of the Soul. That’s once you undergo a interval of isolation, a interval of separating your self from household and buddies. And I’m positively within the trenches of this proper now,” she mentioned. “I wouldn’t commerce my experiences and what I’ve gone via for the world. I miss my household, I miss all people that I used to be related to. However I wanted to do that alone and with out all people’s judgment or opinions and all of that stuff. I wanted to do that for me.”
Robinson closes out the video with an encouragement to viewers to be spontaneous and challenges everybody watching to “do one thing scary.”
“Individuals are gonna name you loopy, and that’s okay,” she mentioned. “Perhaps you’re. I’m loopy and I’m additionally pleased with myself. I do know that none of those people who find themselves calling me loopy might do what I’ve carried out.”
