Dave Grohl’s 19-year-old daughter Violet pays tribute to late filmmaker David Lynch on her new single, “What’s Heaven Without You,” which she released on Bandcamp today (Jan. 20) in honor of what would have been Lynch’s 80th birthday.
The track was produced by Justin Raisen (Kim Gordon, Yves Tumor) and Anthony Paul Lopez, and was written by Grohl with Raisen and Persia Numan. The latter is the daughter of new wave icon Gary Numan, whose song “Down in the Park” was covered by Foo Fighters on the 1996 collection Songs in the Key of X.
“This song was written in David Lynch’s memory alongside two of my favorite collaborators in the world, Persia Numan and Justin Raisen,” Violet Grohl says. “A few days after the chaos and devastation of the L.A. fires, we came together in our sadness and grief and let it pour out into this song. We hope you can find some resonance in it. The impact he left on art is truly magical. We miss you David.”
Violet Grohl has sang onstage with Foo Fighters on numerous occasions in recent years, participated in her dad’s Hannukah Sessions series and also contributed vocals to the song “Show Me How” from the Foos’ 2023 album But Here We Are. “What’s Heaven Without You” is slated to be the first of many new songs she’ll release throughout this year.
