“It doesn’t matter what, there’s one factor you possibly can’t deny … that I’m giving it all the pieces and leaving nothing,” Brittany Howard says.
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From the time she was a child, former Alabama Shakes frontperson Brittany Howard knew she wished to be in a band. She remembers seeing some youngsters from the native highschool performing, and it was like a door opened in her thoughts: “I stated, ‘That is what I need to do.’ “
As we speak, Howard is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer. However on the time, she was a poor, biracial child in a small Alabama city. When she started searching for out musicians to play with, she was advised repeatedly that she did not appear to be a lead singer.
“It made me sing more durable and sing louder and carry out simply as arduous as I might carry out,” she says of the rejections. “As a result of it doesn’t matter what, there’s one factor you possibly can’t deny … that I’m giving it all the pieces and leaving nothing.”
Howard’s new solo album is What Now. She talks with Terry Gross concerning the album, rising up in a haunted home and enjoying with Prince at his Paisley Park. Click on the audio hyperlink above to listen to the total interview.
Therese Madden and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz and Molly Seavy-Nesper tailored it for the online.
