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Bezig met laden... Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoirdoor Martha Wainwright
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A member of one of rock's royal family spills all the painful tea here - and puts a picture of herself smoking a cigarette on the cover, to show us she's just as defiant as she portrays herself to be in the pages. Martha Wainwright is the daughter of Kate McGarrigle (of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, renowned French-Canadian singing sisters) and Loudon Wainwright III (of the Dead Skunk song), and the sister of Rufus Wainwright (of Hallelujah rendition), and the niece of/stepdaughter of/ etc etc. Martha and Kate, and Martha and Rufus, but not so much Martha and Loudon, have the kind of incredibly powerful and fraught love and resentment between each other that's mesmerizing in its twisty turns. Martha's singing career is buffered by her family, who thinks she doesn’t write enough songs, and she’s not serious enough, nor does she work hard enough, to achieve success - but at what cost? She is haunted by Kate's first child, stillborn, and almost has the same outcome with her own first child, Arcangelo. Her marriage is a war between NYC and Montreal, between being an engaged mom (unlike her own upraising, with both parents seemingly half-absent) and achieving a level of fame comparable to that of her mother and brother. A few famous names are dropped humorously (Van Morrison, yuck), but the memoir is bounded by Martha's self-doubts. It still makes for an enjoyable and more honest celebrity bio than most. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the remarkably gifted musical family she was born into.' EMMYLOU HARRIS This is Martha Wainwright's heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with such incomparable folk legends as Leonard Cohen, Anna McGarrigle, Richard and Linda Thompson, Pete Townsend and Emmylou Harris. It was within this loud, boisterous, musical milieu that Martha came of age, struggling to find her voice until she exploded onto the music scene with her 2005 debut and critically acclaimed album, Martha Wainwright, which contained the blistering hit, 'Bloody Mother F*cking Asshole', which the Sunday Times called one of the best songs of that year. Her successful debut album and the ones that followed such as Come Home to Mama, I Know You're Married but I've Got Feelings Too and Goodnight City came to define Martha's searing songwriting style and established her as a powerful voice to be reckoned with. In Stories I Might Regret Telling You, Martha digs into the deep recesses of herself with the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music. She describes her tumultuous public-facing journey from awkward, earnest and ultimately rebellious daughter, through her intense competition and ultimate alliance with her brother, Rufus, to the heart-breaking loss of their mother, Kate, and then, finally, discovering her voice as an artist. With candour and grace, Martha writes of becoming a mother herself and making peace with her past struggles with Kate and her younger self. Ultimately, this book offers a thoughtful and deeply personal look into the extraordinary life of one of the most talented singer-songwriters in music today. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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