"I'm Alive" — ROMAN CIGI took three years to prove it
- Soundevote
- Oct 10, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
A personal diagnosis, a global lockdown, a 15,000-foot skydive, and a remix that's still climbing. This is the full story.
Some songs don't start as hits. They start as something far more private — a way of surviving. When ROMAN CIGI began working on "I'm Alive" back in 2021, he wasn't thinking about stream counts. He was processing a diagnosis of ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), writing through a period that had already turned the world upside down. The track finally arrived on VEVO in October 2024 — three years in the making — & somehow, because of that rawness & not despite it, it connected. Over a million plays later, the story wasn't finished.
Enter Brosso. The electronic artist approached the track not to replace what was already there, but to take it somewhere new. Working closely under ROMAN CIGI's creative direction and following a clear creative vision, Brosso delivered the technical execution the remix needed. The result preserves the emotional weight of the original while giving it a sharper, more kinetic edge — one that works equally well at 2AM through headphones or on a packed dancefloor. Now past 500,000 streams on VEVO and still growing — the numbers reflect what happens when the right artist meets the right direction.
Fifteen thousand feet and a skydive over Salisbury
The VEVO release deserves its own story. Filming spanned three distinct UK locations — each chosen to reflect a different emotional register in the track — and involved four cinematographers, two models, multiple organisations, and the kind of unpredictable English weather that no call sheet can prepare you for.
ROMAN CIGI edited the final piece himself in DaVinci Resolve, alongside cinematographers Allan Rowland and Amir Wanas, with models Sophie Duncan and Vlada Mashchenko. The result moves the way the music does — fast when it needs to be, still when it has to.
Not inspirational. Just honest.
There's a version of this story that gets turned into a motivational poster. ROMAN CIGI has avoided that at every turn. "I'm Alive" isn't a triumph — it's an acknowledgement. Life is difficult, circumstances don't always improve, and some battles are ongoing. The track doesn't promise resolution. It offers something quieter and more useful: permission to keep going anyway. To find meaning in the specific, complicated life you actually have, not an idealised one.
Brosso's remix honours that. The added energy isn't defiance or escapism — it's more like momentum. The decision to just keep moving, even when you don't know where you're headed.
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