In a world increasingly defined by digital noise, Luma Valen is tuning into a deeper resonance. Her latest single, “LOVE,” serves as the spiritual anchor for her five-song journey, The Alive Frequency. By strategically releasing the track on February 13th—reclaiming the “valor” inherent in her own name—Valen invites listeners to rediscover the “LOVE frequency” within themselves before looking outward.
Produced alongside the legendary Humberto Gatica, the project is a cinematic exploration of the human heart, navigating the “thorns” of loss and the electric spark of attraction. From a song written in a five-minute flash of inspiration to a profound discussion on dignity and resilience, Valen sits down with us to explain why real love isn’t just a feeling we chase—it’s a state of being we must first cultivate within.
WELCOME TO WORLDAUTHORS.ORG, LUMA VALEN. YOUR NEW SINGLE LOVE FEELS DEEPLY INTENTIONAL. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THIS CHAPTER OF YOUR CREATIVE JOURNEY?
This chapter feels like a return to something essential. I write from emotion, from lived experience, and from the deeper understanding that life gradually reveals to us over time. LOVE represents a moment when I realized that love is not simply a romantic idea or a beautiful word we exchange with someone else. It is a force. It shapes how we see ourselves, how we see others, and how we move through the world.
Love is the air we breathe. It is the quiet power that allows a person either to flourish or to slowly wither. With this music I wanted to remind people that before we can truly give love, we must first discover the love that already lives within us. Sometimes that discovery comes through pain. I often describe it as having a heart of thorns. We cannot fully appreciate the magic of love without experiencing what it feels like to live without it.
That idea sits at the heart of my work during this era of The Alive Frequency.
Right now I feel that many people are sitting at home scrolling endlessly through their phones searching for something that feels like love. Commercially, that works. People sell you a feeling. But real love begins in a sacred place within. When you rediscover that place, something extraordinary happens. Everything begins to magnetize back to you at what I call the LOVE frequency.
When you live from that frequency, the world changes. Colors feel brighter. People appear more beautiful. Life begins to reveal its magic again. You begin to recognize the love that exists both inside you and all around you.
YOU CHOSE TO RELEASE LOVE ON FEBRUARY 13TH INSTEAD OF VALENTINE’S DAY. WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND WHEN YOU DECIDED TO REDEFINE THAT DATE?
Valentine’s Day has become centered around romantic gestures, but the origin of the word Valentine actually comes from Valen, which means courage and valor. That meaning stayed with me. Sometimes the greatest act of courage is simply allowing ourselves to open our hearts again.
Releasing the song on February 13th felt symbolic. I wanted to create a moment of reflection before the holiday arrives. A quiet invitation for people to reconnect with themselves before celebrating love with someone else.
When we rediscover that inner connection, everything begins to change. Relationships become healthier. Love becomes deeper. The way we move through the world becomes more intentional and more compassionate.
THE SONG SHIFTS THE FOCUS FROM ROMANTIC LOVE TO SELF HONOR AND RESILIENCE. AS A WRITER, HOW DID THAT THEME FIRST BEGIN TO TAKE SHAPE?
It began with a realization that many people experience but rarely speak about openly. We often give love away before we have learned to honor ourselves. When that happens we can slowly lose our sense of worth inside relationships or situations that diminish us.
LOVE was born from the idea that true love must include dignity. It must include self respect and self honor. It must include the courage to walk away from what harms us and the courage to believe in love again afterward.
Once that realization appeared, the lyrics unfolded naturally. It was as if the song had been waiting for that moment of clarity to reveal itself.
WHEN YOU SIT DOWN TO WRITE, DO YOU BEGIN WITH A LYRIC, A MELODY, OR AN EMOTION THAT REFUSES TO BE IGNORED?
It almost always begins with emotion. Sometimes it arrives quietly, almost like a whisper asking to be heard. Other times it arrives with urgency and demands to be expressed.
With LOVE everything came at once. I was standing in front of the mirror brushing my hair when suddenly I felt an overwhelming sense of love and purity. Tears began falling from my eyes and at that exact moment I could hear the entire song. The melody, the instrumentation, the lyrics. Everything.
Within five minutes the song was finished. It was the fastest I have ever written anything in my life. It felt like pure magic.
When a song arrives like that, it does not feel like writing. It feels like listening. As if the music already exists somewhere and your role as the artist is simply to give it a voice.
LOVE SITS AT THE CENTER OF YOUR FIVE SONG JOURNEY IN THE ALIVE FREQUENCY. DID YOU APPROACH THE PROJECT LIKE CHAPTERS IN A BOOK, WITH EACH SONG CARRYING A SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL ROLE?
Yes, very much so. I see The Alive Frequency as an emotional journey through the human heart. Each song represents a different moment in the experience of being alive. Some explore connection and friendship. Others explore attraction, loss, reflection, and resilience.
These experiences are the thorns in our hearts that ultimately lead us back to love.
LOVE sits at the center because it represents grounding. It is the moment where everything becomes clear again. It reminds us that no matter how far we travel through heartbreak or uncertainty, love remains the center that holds us together.
Without those experiences we would never fully recognize or appreciate the existence of real love.
YOU WORKED WITH THE LEGENDARY HUMBERTO GATICA ON THIS PROJECT. HOW DID THAT COLLABORATION SHAPE THE SOUND AND EMOTIONAL DEPTH OF THE SONG?
Working with the extraordinary Humberto Gatica was a profound experience. He has a rare sensitivity to emotion in music. In the studio he listens deeply to the intention behind every lyric, every breath, and every feeling within a vocal performance.
His instinct is not simply to produce a polished record. It is to protect the emotional truth of the song.
When the song first came to me, I remember thinking to myself that it sounded like something Céline Dion might sing. I knew who Humberto Gatica was, but I never imagined that one day I would be recording that very song myself with him in the studio.
Life sometimes moves in mysterious and beautiful ways.
YOUR MUSIC OFTEN FEELS LIKE A QUIET CONVERSATION WITH THE LISTENER. DO YOU WRITE WITH A SPECIFIC PERSON IN MIND OR IS IT MORE ABOUT CAPTURING A UNIVERSAL FEELING?
It usually begins with something personal. A memory, a conversation, or an experience from my own life. But the goal is always to capture a feeling that belongs to many people.
Music has the extraordinary ability to make someone feel understood without speaking directly to their story. When a listener hears a song and recognizes a part of their own life inside it, the connection becomes deeply intimate.
That invisible conversation between artist and listener is what makes music so powerful.
SONGS LIKE SAD EYES, SWEPT AWAY, AND MAKE IT EXPLORE DIFFERENT EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES OF LOVE. HOW DO THESE SONGS FIT INTO THE STORY OF THE ALIVE FREQUENCY?
Each of these songs represents a different moment in the emotional journey of being human.
Sad Eyes is about the quiet devastation of losing yourself in a world that often rewards disconnection and the courageous decision to return to your soul.
Swept Away captures the electric spark of instant attraction. It is that moment across the room when two people lock eyes and something inside you shifts. The heartbeat quickens. The possibility of love suddenly appears. It is flirtation in motion, wrapped in rhythm and light.
Make It represents devotion. It is the moment when two people realize they are willing to stand beside each other through everything life brings.
Together these songs reflect the full spectrum of love. The spark, the loss, the healing, and the commitment that ultimately gives love its depth.
WHEN SOMEONE LISTENS TO LOVE YEARS FROM NOW, WHAT DO YOU HOPE THEY FEEL OR REMEMBER ABOUT THEMSELVES?
I hope they remember their worth. I hope they realize that there is a kind of love the world cannot give you. It is something you discover within yourself.
As the world becomes more digital, mechanical, and artificial. If that happens, I hope someone listens to this song and remembers their humanity.
Today we are constantly told how to love, how to have relationships, and how to live. But if we look within ourselves, we will discover that the deepest wisdom has always been there.
If years from now someone hears this song and it helps them stand a little taller and trust their heart again, then the music has done exactly what it was meant to do.
Love is not just something we give.
Love is something we become.