Different genres of music are always playing in Perri’s house during the day, especially now that Carmella has grown to love pop music. Carmella is a pop culture enthusiast, according to Perri, and she adores the musician Chappell Roan in particular. Still, Perri finds bedtime particularly special because of the sweet lullabies.

When reflecting on her career, Perri acknowledged that she loves the time she spent singing lullabies even more than her pop star days. Even though she enjoyed her pop music days, she now genuinely treasures being a mother and singing to her kids. 

Perri also stated that her daughters are proud of her work, particularly now that one of her songs has been adapted into a children’s book. They know the song well, and it’s a unique way for her to share her music with them. 

Christina Perri recently said that she loves to involve her daughters in her work whenever she can and that she feels like she is in a truly sweet part of her career. She said she includes them whenever it makes sense, like when she records lullabies and gets them to sing.

Perri’s summer reflections and upcoming book release

Perri mentioned that her daughters find it special that their mother is now a published author. She claimed that writing music with a family theme has always come easily to her.

Perri explained that all she does is live her real life, which is currently focused on motherhood and singing to her daughters. She stated that this was her favorite part of her journey and made complete sense to her. She emphasized that none of her projects involved overthinking or attempting to create something inauthentic.  

She made it very apparent that she didn’t want to act as though she hadn’t become a mother or as though she had been able to get six years of sleep. Rather, she was content to share with everyone the precise state of her life, and this strategy made perfect sense to her.

Perri feels that there is a special connection between her and her audience because many of them have gone through life stages similar to her, having grown up alongside her. She thanked God for this period of her life, calling it a “sweet spot” in her creativity and music. 

Recounting her life story, Sanaa said her mom was really inspiring because she never drank, yet she is one of the most joyous and vibrant people she has ever known, which to her makes little sense as to why people connect fun or living with alcohol. When she learned about what alcohol does to the body, Sanaa came to realize how bad it could be for her, both physically and mentally. With this knowledge came a priority in giving up alcohol, which then paved the way for her success in career endeavors.

Recent career heights, she says, were reached because she is sober; because she now gets the time to reflect on how sobriety brought the mental strength necessary to take on her toughest projects. 

Since quitting alcohol, Sanaa has directed and starred in the 2022 hit On the Come Up, earned an Emmy nomination in 2021 for her guest role on Succession, and produced and starred in the popular Netflix movie Nappily Ever After. She believes that her ability to handle such demanding roles and responsibilities would not have been possible had she continued drinking. “I do believe that I would never have been able to direct a major studio movie if I hadn’t stopped. There are things that I’m doing in my life now that I don’t think that I would’ve been able to sustain,” she shared.

Her part in the new comedy-drama The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat on Hulu serves as additional evidence of how well her personal and professional lives mesh. Adapted to a series based on the novel by Edward Kelsey Moore, the show tags on Sanaa in the trio of lifelong friends with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Uzo Aduba, as they maneuver through life in Indiana in the 1960s. For Sanaa, the character of Barbara Jean, who is brought to life as a woman in all sorts of pain, was almost therapeutic to portray, since it was not her first time playing a character whose crutch came in the shape of a bottle.