She responded: 'Well, you know, I feel like I'm the kind of person that I think so much happened that I never in a million years thought would happen, so I've learned to quit saying 'never.' But at the same time, I'm a really present person.' And that's the reason I stepped down from FLYLEAF.'īack in 2016, Sturm was asked in an interview with RockRevolt Magazine if there was chance that she could reunite with her former bandmates after they had parted ways with May. And although it was really hard, I'm thankful. 'It was really amazing to recognize this season changing in my life and the freedom that I was gonna be able to focus on my family. So I remember looking at my son after Rich had passed and just wondering to myself, if this was the last year I had with my son, how would I spend it? And it was really hard to do a show without him, and it was really hard to think it could be our last show. We did one last show with FLYLEAF as a benefit for his wife Katy and their son Kirby. So, for me, I just felt really blessed to be pregnant and to be in a place where I could stay home if I wanted to, and really ask that question: how is this gonna change my priorities? How is this gonna look? We had a few things happen that really brought that message home, but the one that hit the hardest was the death of our sound engineer. I mean, we weren't home for more than a month, probably, a year. 'And I recognized that my priorities were gonna change even more and that message of 'memento mori' and remembering how short your life is was really weighing on my heart. 'For two years, I toured with my husband and it was really amazing, and then after those two years, we ended up getting pregnant with my son,' she continued. And 'memento mori' means remember you're mortal, remember that you'll die and remember that your life is short and precious and so are the lives of those around you. At the time, she said: 'We were on our second album when I got married. Lacey opened up about her reasons for her departure from FLYLEAF in a video promoting her 2014 memoir 'The Reason: How I Discovered A Life Worth Living'. She was replaced by Kristen May, who recorded one album with the group, 2014's 'Between The Stars', before exiting. The festival is set to go down at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, with ticket sales going on sale on Friday, November 11.

Also scheduled to perform at the event are SYSTEM OF A DOWN, KORN, DEFTONES, EVANESCENCE, INCUBUS and CHEVELLE, along many others. The reactivated FLYLEAF is one of the bands appearing at Sick New World, a nu-metal destination festival set for in Las Vegas. FLYLEAF has reunited with singer Lacey Sturm.Įarlier today (Monday, November 7), the long-running hard rock act, which has been active for much of the last decade, shared an old FLYLEAF photo with Sturm and changed its profile photo to an image that reads 'Flyleaf With Lacey Sturm.'

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