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My Brightest Diamond is Shara Worden, an American singer-songwriter.
Worden is the granddaughter of an Epiphone-playing traveling evangelist; her father was a National Accordion Champion and her mother a classical organist. Having a family of wanderers who migrated across the U.S. every few years, the landscape and the musical influences were constantly changing: Spanish tangos, Sunday morning gospel, classical and jazz were the accompaniment to her home life. Her first song was recorded when she was three years old, and by the age of eight she was studying piano and performing in community musical productions.
As a teenager in Michigan, Shara honed her musical prowess singing along to Whitney Houston music videos and Mariah Carey albums. When pop music wasn’t enough, she enrolled in the music program at the University of North Texas, immersing herself in the songs of Henry Purcell and Claude Debussy. After college, she moved to New York City and fell in love with its cold winters and busy streets. She continued to study opera on the Upper West Side during the day, but at night she frequented downtown clubs such as Tonic, Knitting Factory, and The Living Room, catching performances by Antony and the Johnsons, Nina Nastasia, and Rebecca Moore. She began to spend less time sight-reading Mozart and more time de-tuning her Gibson electric guitar to play her own newly-written songs. Coaxed out of recital halls and onto the small stages of bars and clubs, Shara assembled a coterie of musicians to accompany her with bass and drums, music boxes, wine glasses, and wind chimes. She released two full albums in 2001 (AwRY and Quiet B Sides) as well as a remix album with her band entitled AwRY.
Worden is the granddaughter of an Epiphone-playing traveling evangelist; her father was a National Accordion Champion and her mother a classical organist. Having a family of wanderers who migrated across the U.S. every few years, the landscape and the musical influences were constantly changing: Spanish tangos, Sunday morning gospel, classical and jazz were the accompaniment to her home life. Her first song was recorded when she was three years old, and by the age of eight she was studying piano and performing in community musical productions.
As a teenager in Michigan, Shara honed her musical prowess singing along to Whitney Houston music videos and Mariah Carey albums. When pop music wasn’t enough, she enrolled in the music program at the University of North Texas, immersing herself in the songs of Henry Purcell and Claude Debussy. After college, she moved to New York City and fell in love with its cold winters and busy streets. She continued to study opera on the Upper West Side during the day, but at night she frequented downtown clubs such as Tonic, Knitting Factory, and The Living Room, catching performances by Antony and the Johnsons, Nina Nastasia, and Rebecca Moore. She began to spend less time sight-reading Mozart and more time de-tuning her Gibson electric guitar to play her own newly-written songs. Coaxed out of recital halls and onto the small stages of bars and clubs, Shara assembled a coterie of musicians to accompany her with bass and drums, music boxes, wine glasses, and wind chimes. She released two full albums in 2001 (AwRY and Quiet B Sides) as well as a remix album with her band entitled AwRY.
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Aulin223 wrote:
download My Brightest Diamond ringtones now for free at http://tiny.cc/9k5m2
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MishMog wrote:
Lovelovelove the voice and music of Shara Worden, modern magic
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dv_mn wrote:
Awesome...
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kaplan06 wrote:
Happy and merry and new year - christmas . :) http://www.youtube.com/user/Zitacity#p/f/5/NhfWWLb_B6w
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ar99 wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5SoFTIXMw
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Free six track album Shark Demos at http://asthmatickitty.com/news.php?newsID=538 But I don't know for how long so get it while you can!
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PlayDead82 wrote:
Saw her in Athens yesterday!!! soooooooooooooooo amazing!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3
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Eosson wrote:
she's just AMAZING! saw her in rome and had the privilege to have a chat with her... so nice!
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electricneon2 wrote:
yes , definitly vangelicmonk , that's probably why the music sound so rich
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vangelicmonk wrote:
wow. Her music biography is immensely fascinating.
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blacknail wrote:
Saw her @ Coimbra two days ago, just *speechless*
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katezinha wrote:
saw her yesterday, great show, great voice!
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SinsWritter wrote:
Oh God! They're awesome live, really!!
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setoutrunning wrote:
just heard one of the "inside a boy" remixes on so you think you can dance?.... weird. it was incorrectly attributed to charlotte martin, too.
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SinsWritter wrote:
I'm going to see her tomorrow! YAY!
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ARGBDude wrote:
some HQ PNG images: reupload of current profile pic | another photo from the same photoshoots (and also its uncropped version) | and another image reuploaded with better quality
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overone wrote:
nice lady
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eelesa wrote:
amazing!
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KingHeff wrote:
what a woman
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