Grief has a way of stripping a life down to its studs. What remains after loss is rarely the version of ourselves we planned for, but it is often the most honest one. Most of us respond by reaching for distraction, rebuilding quickly and quietly so no one sees the scaffolding. Few are willing to do that rebuilding in public, to let the world watch the foundation being poured.

Turning a season of mourning into something that moves like a celebration, Miami-born Dominican singer, dancer, and director DaniLeigh is choosing transparency over concealment. The multi-hyphenate just released her new album With Love, From Dani, a 13-track testimony touching on faith, motherhood, family, and healing, written in the year after she lost her father. As she described it to Complex, the album is "like a letter to my fans and just healing."

Her first release in years, and her first since the Def Jam era that produced The Plan and Movie, With Love, From Dani is a departure from the heartbreak that once defined her catalog. The album drifts between R&B, hip-hop, Afrobeats, and drill, held together by a newfound spiritual center. The focus track "Home," featuring Jordan Adetunji, returns to the uncluttered simplicity that made "Easy" a hit. "G.O.D." functions as a love letter to God, while "La Familia," featuring Bella Dose and Brandon Bill$, raises a glass to blood and chosen family.

The emotional summit arrives with "Goosebumps," featuring Nigerian superstar Olamide, a record rooted in Matthew 18:20 that stretches from Miami to Lagos, with a video, co-directed by DaniLeigh and her sister Victoria Curiel, set inside a church as the congregation catches the spirit. The project is almost a devotional, an offering made by someone who no longer needs the world's permission to be whole. As she told GQ South Africa, the album holds "no malice, no petty, no hate."

The shift is deliberate. "My past albums were about either heartbreak or love and toxicity," she explained, "but that's not my life anymore." Her days now begin at 6:00 AM: cleaning the house, cooking breakfast for her daughter, doing her hair, driving her to school. Only then does she head to the studio, carrying one rule with her: every song has to be one her daughter can play.

DaniLeigh is entering new territory with this release, and she is not doing it quietly. Just two days after the album arrived, she brought this new era to Los Angeles with a stop at Complex on the Scene during ComplexCon. And she already knows where she wants these songs to live: "When you're getting ready with your girls, when you're home trying to just be by yourself and hear something inspirational, I feel like that's the vibe."