Kesha Is Finally Free

Singer Kesha has finally been able to leave her record label after an almost 10-year-long legal battle.

The star has been in a long-running dispute with her former producer, and the owner of Kemosabe Records, Dr. Luke, whose full name is Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald. Variety reported the developments on Tuesday, citing a source who said the deal with Kemosabe Records, which is "distributed by RCA Records, officially ended last week," and that she had also "amicably" left her management company, Vector Management.

Fans of Kesha, whose full name is Kesha Rose Sebert, started the hashtag "Free Kesha" previously to help her cause, after the singer made it known that she wanted to free herself from her recording contract after accusing Dr. Luke of sexual and emotional abuse in October 2014.

In 2014, Kesha filed a suit against Dr. Luke, claiming he drugged, sexually assaulted, and emotionally abused her, and asked to be released from her contract with the record label. Dr. Luke filed a countersuit to refute the claims and started the ongoing dispute.

Kesha released her fifth studio album in May this year, Gag Order, her last contractual album with the label.

In June, the Tik Tok singer and record label owner settled their defamation dispute out of court with Variety also at the time sharing statements from both parties.

Dr. Luke said he "wish(es) Kesha well," in his statement, with Kesha stating in hers that: "Only God knows what happened that night" and: "As I always said, I cannot recount everything that happened. I am looking forward to closing the door on this chapter of my life and beginning a new one. I wish nothing but peace to all parties involved."

With the news breaking online, her loyal fans have been rejoicing and sharing their thoughts across social media.

Pop Crave on X, formerly Twitter shared an image of the star with the headline: "Kesha has parted ways with Dr. Luke's Kemosabe label, its distributor RCA Records, and management company Vector Management, Variety reports," and at the time this article was published, it had been viewed over 711,000 times by users of the social media platform.

Already waiting on her next album, a fan said: "I'm completely shocked she can only now part ways, but I'm so happy for her and just know I'm riding hard for her next album. Now that's gonna be a GAG order!"

"Kesha is FINALLY free. Her 2024 will be one of liberation," a second cheered.

Other words of encouragement came in the form of "MOTHER IS FREEE" and "Thank god. so excited for what's to come. That's MOTHER."

Many were shocked at the length of the legal dispute: "Insane how long it took" and "It's been 100 years" fans shared in disbelief.

Newsweek has contacted Kesha's publicist, RCA Records and Vector Management via email for comment.