🎶 New single, "It'll Be All Right (full band version) drops next Friday! 🎶💃🏽 ✨

Inspired by the life and struggles of Billie Holiday, the song grew into a reflection on resilience, remembrance and hope.

For anyone who's loved deeply, lost someone too soon, or faced life's storms and kept going anyway.

"We thought we'd live forever..."

💛 Out September 4.

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Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter Lola Parks creates Soul Folk—Americana-rooted music that blends soulful vocals, roots rock, folk storytelling, and subtle reggae and Latin influences. Her songs explore healing, hope, resilience, connection, belonging, nature, movement, and empowerment, inviting listeners into stories that resonate long after the final note.

With a voice as seductive as it is soulful, Parks delivers emotionally rich performances that are both intimate and powerful. Drawing on jazz roots and contemporary Americana, her pitch-perfect vocals float over organic acoustic arrangements, blending modern melodies with unapologetically honest lyrics. Every song balances vulnerability with quiet strength, creating a warm, cinematic listening experience.

ALA Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile, Bonnie Raitt, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys.

Lola Parks

Lola Parks (aka singer-songwriter Sandy Powlik) is an award-winning Soul Folk Pop artist from B.C. who sings with an honesty that inspires her audience to dig deeper and share a genuine connection across diverse barriers.

Her style is intelligent, intimate, evocative, boho chic and deeply influenced by her heritage, travels and jazz roots ALA Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones & Alicia Keys.

In 2026, Parks releases some hopeful & uplifting reggae fusion tunes: we-will-get-through-together's "Gumboots" and "Blue Skies Amigos," a tribute to a good friend who died in a speed flying accident. 2025 sees her diversify to release her first Spanish Latin Pop songs: "Vamos," "Dime" & "Sin Tí".

2022-2023 singles (6) are "Somber yet hopeful, carrying on with resilience," says Parks, speaking to forgiveness and female empowerment.

2020’s No Apologies, feat. singles "Dreamer" and 2x International Songwriting Competition semi-finalist "Freight Train," encourages us to own all of who we are, stand strong in our roots and our right to be.”

From fronting a 17-piece all-male Big Band to sole lyricist/vocalist/acoustic guitarist in folk rock band Sonnenblume, to leading Lola Parks since 2002, Parks has created a fiercely independent professional music history. 5 continents. 5 sync rep deals. 45-song One Stop catalogue.

• Syncs in TV's Higher Ground, Mutant Films' "The Orchard," CBC’s Early Edition theme song

• Female Songwriter of the Year (VIMA), Most Outstanding Vocal Jazz Musician (Denver)

• Top 10 Indigenous Music Countdown (3x)

• Semi-Finalist: International Songwriting Competition (2x)

• Top 5 Finalist: InnoNative BullsEye Prize

“Wildly Impressed. I’m sad that it’s taking so long for people to notice you.” – Robin Frederick, mysongcoach.com, Los Angeles

"One seriously amazing voice" - Brett Smith-Daniels, Luxton Fair

"Lola Parks is the most mature, original, soulful and honest fusion/folk act I've had the pleasure to witness. Sandy Powlik's dangerous writing and immaculate vocal stylings inspire me to get up tomorrow." - Barry Newman, Cosmic Debris Magazine

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$It\'ll Be All Right (full band version)$

It'll Be All Right (full band version)

Dear friends,

Next Friday, September 4, I'll be releasing a new full-band version of "It'll Be All Right."

The song was inspired by the life and struggles of Billie Holiday—a remarkable artist who endured racism, sexism, addiction, poverty, and heartbreak, yet left the world with extraordinary beauty through her music. As I began writing, the song grew beyond her story and became something more universal: a reflection on loss, resilience, compassion, and hope.

It's for anyone who's loved deeply, lost someone too soon, or faced life's storms and kept going anyway.

In a time when so many families have been touched by addiction, mental health struggles, and grief, I wanted to create something that acknowledges the pain while still reaching toward the light.

Three years after its original release, I felt called to revisit the song. With Steve Dawson's beautiful production, soaring pedal steel, and a full band behind it, the song found a new life and a bigger emotional landscape.

One lyric keeps coming back to me:

"We thought we'd live forever..."

And yet, somehow, that's not where the song ends.

It ends with hope.

"It'll be all right. It'll be okay. Gonna hold on tight anyway."

Thank you for listening, for supporting independent music, and for being part of this journey.

💛 "It'll Be All Right (full band version)" arrives September 4.

With love,

Lola - Aug 28th, 2026

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