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the book is forthcoming. by Danyel Smith. a history of black women in pop. from It Books/HarperCollins (2014). now writing. tumbling this stuff keeps me inspired, and keeps my brain sane.
The fondest memory I have is hanging out at Studio 54 with friends, coming home at 4am, sleeping all day and starting again. You had to look beautiful, 54 was for beautiful people, but it was ugly too. I wasn’t accomplishing anything. By 1982, I was on such a bad trip with drugs and alcohol that I knew I wouldn’t be around much longer if I kept it up. I stopped drinking and doing drugs and started praying and asking the Lord to re-establish me. I stopped singing secular songs, too. I blamed them for a long time, I thought they were the reason I’d lost God. People said they would love me to sing ‘Young Hearts Run Free,’ but I wasn’t ready. It took twenty years before I could sing those songs again.

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