A Farewell from Stephanie Braganza – Until We Meet Again

When a Song Walks In and Sits Beside You

When I first played Until We Meet Again, something in me paused. We just lost Darcy, and the wound is still warm, so a song like this doesn’t slip by quietly. Stephanie Braganza stepped right into that space with a voice shaped by her own loss. And I know she wrote these lines from a place only real experience can shape.

She wrote this as a tribute to her dog Pom-Pom. It took her years to finish it because every attempt pulled her back into the depth of those emotions. Listening to it, I can feel that. The song has that weight of something carried for a long time, until the heart finally decides it’s ready to speak.

The Voice, the Light, and the Memory It Carries

There’s a tenderness in the way she moves through the verses. “Leave a little light on so I can find my way back to you.” That line hit me hard. Anyone who’s ever lost a pet knows exactly what that light looks like. It’s memory, ritual, instinct – the tiny moments that keep us connected.

The arrangement goes straight to the heart: acoustic guitar, live drums, and emotion rising right beneath her voice. Lucas Marston and Kolin Stürt shaped the music in a way that lets her vocals breathe inside the grief without drowning in it. Every person involved – Marston on production and guitar, Kevin Warren on drums, Jonathan Pike on engineering, Kevin Dietz on mixing, Montano Mastering on the final touches – left their fingerprint on a song already carrying its own emotional charge.

Stephanie’s delivery on Until We Meet Again feels like someone walking through the house after everything changed. Every step careful. Each breath deliberate. And inside it all, this quiet hope that goes with the song from start to finish.

The Life She Lived, the Dog She Loved

Stephanie’s career is one of those maps full of milestones: Toronto Independent Music Award winner, MuchMusic Video Awards performer, Blue Jays game vocalist, CBC-recognized artist, world-record participant, and an advocate whose animal-rights work gained global attention. She teaches voice, performs across major events, and fills rooms with her presence.

Yet here, in this song, everything narrows down to one small dog who shaped her world. Pom-Pom lived in her life the way Darcy lived in mine – quiet, loyal, full of those tiny moments. You don’t realize how priceless are until they become memories.

When Stephanie sings “Why’d you have to go… I lost the life I knew”, it brings back that familiar ache. The empty spot on the bed. The food bowl you still catch yourself looking at. The instinct to call a name that lives now in memory only.

For Anyone Carrying an Empty Space

Until We Meet Again feels like a soft promise for anyone holding loss in their chest. Stephanie Braganza gave her grief a voice, and somehow that opens the door for the rest of us too. Darcy, Pom-Pom, the companions we loved – they are here with us in the quiet hours. And for a few minutes, this song gives those hours a gentler place to land.

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