Fantasia Barrino's journey into a better place might have started when she decided to put an engagement ring on her own finger. "I was like, 'Whoever puts the next ring on it needs to top this one,'" Barrino told People. She found her answer in her now spouse, Kendall Taylor, with whom she became a second-time grandparent in 2019 (via Essence). It's to him that Barrino credits "bringing out a Fantasia that I didn't even know was there." And if Taylor supported Barrino through the transformation, Barrino is supporting everyone else through theirs when she sings Lose to Win.
'If it makes you cry, cry, cry, " sings Barrino in her favorite song, "and all you do is fight, can't get no sleep at night, sometimes you gotta lose to win again." It's inevitably an emotional performance for Fantasia Barrino, so much so that her husband has asked her why she gets "messed up" when she performs it (via NBC). It's because she remembers the turmoil she was going through when she wrote it intimately. And looking out at the audience when she performs it, she can see the people going through the same thing. "As a soul singer, my intentions are to minister, heal and to help," Barrino explained.