Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - (The second is a series of interviews with Ann Mortifee, click here to access part one.)

Ann Mortifee seemed to be on the verge of a breakthrough few artists even dream of, when she left the music industry in 1975. EMI Records had just produced her second album and set up a world tour.

Yet Ann’s inner voice clearly stated, “if you go down this path, you will not fulfill your destiny.”

She resisted at first, but finally told her music director, “I'm leaving music, and I'm going on a pilgrimage.”

AM: “They could have sued me because I had this contract with them, a huge contract. And they let me out of it. Then I went into ( this) A depression. Like, what was that about? Am I afraid of BEING (getting) successful? Why did I do that?”

She would later refer to the next three years as one of the most incredible periods of her life.