The second David Bowie World Fan Convention hit New York in June, featuring some of David Bowie’s closest collaborators in music, film, and fashion. Vocalist, songwriter, model, and actor Ava Cherry sang on some of Bowie’s most transformative records, and changed his outlook on music, fashion, and nightlife. From 1974 to 1978, Cherry was one-third of Bowie’s vocal backing trio, appearing onstage, in the studio, and on all TV appearances. Cherry and Bowie’s relationship was even closer than that, beginning as lovers, and enduring as friends.
According to the autobiography All That Glitters, written by Cherry and Lisa Torem, Ava was raised in Chicago, taking a job at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion when she was 17 years old, before moving to New York and working at the nightclub Genesis. This is where she met Bowie, who asked her to provide backing vocals on an upcoming tour in Japan.
According to the autobiography All That Glitters, written by Cherry and Lisa Torem, Ava was raised in Chicago, taking a job at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion when she was 17 years old, before moving to New York and working at the nightclub Genesis. This is where she met Bowie, who asked her to provide backing vocals on an upcoming tour in Japan.
- 8/29/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Cupcakke has returned with her first solo single since last July, a biting track called “Lawd Jesus.” On the song, the rapper discusses shedding old ways for a new outlook as she continues to succeed, but her past seems to try to continue to hold her down.
“Fuck all my old friends, I’m not tryna make amends,” she raps, with a “Lawd Jesus” refrain repeated during the chorus. “I said, ‘Mama, chill, we gonna win’/Money keep comin’ in/I’m tryna change from back then.”
Cupcakke released two...
“Fuck all my old friends, I’m not tryna make amends,” she raps, with a “Lawd Jesus” refrain repeated during the chorus. “I said, ‘Mama, chill, we gonna win’/Money keep comin’ in/I’m tryna change from back then.”
Cupcakke released two...
- 3/6/2020
- by Claire Shaffer and Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
“I have so many crazy stories from that tour that half of them are blocked out from my memory,” Banoffee says over the phone from Melbourne. She’s recalling her stint as a member of Charli Xcx’s backing band in 2018, when the British pop artist was opening for Taylor Swift’s Reputation Tour – a kind of synth-pop Russian-doll situation in which Banoffee found herself performing for as many as 75,000 fans a night. “I’d like to think I’ve compartmentalized it for my own sanity,” she adds. “Once you’ve seen one sports stadium,...
- 3/4/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Rising indie-pop artist Banoffee’s debut album is out in February, and she’s released a new single from the LP, “Count on You.”
The music video features the Australian artist sparring with herself and others at a fencing camp (a la The Parent Trap), as she sings about comforting someone in the midst of fighting their own inner demons: “I’ll sit here ’til the lights go down/You can fall asleep/I’ll sit here till the breaks go on/In your head and body.”
“This video aims...
The music video features the Australian artist sparring with herself and others at a fencing camp (a la The Parent Trap), as she sings about comforting someone in the midst of fighting their own inner demons: “I’ll sit here ’til the lights go down/You can fall asleep/I’ll sit here till the breaks go on/In your head and body.”
“This video aims...
- 1/15/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
[This story contains spoilers through episode four of HBO's Sharp Objects.]
There has been plenty of Twitter chatter about whether Sharp Objects' protagonist, journalist Camille Preaker (Amy Adams), is any good at her reporting job. She doesn't take notes, she gets too close to her sources, she writes story drafts in Gmail like a psycho. But Chris Messina, who plays a big-city detective stationed in the small town of Wind Gap, Miss., to investigate the murder of two teen girls, has wondered the same thing about his character.
In the fourth episode of the limited series, "Ripe,"...
There has been plenty of Twitter chatter about whether Sharp Objects' protagonist, journalist Camille Preaker (Amy Adams), is any good at her reporting job. She doesn't take notes, she gets too close to her sources, she writes story drafts in Gmail like a psycho. But Chris Messina, who plays a big-city detective stationed in the small town of Wind Gap, Miss., to investigate the murder of two teen girls, has wondered the same thing about his character.
In the fourth episode of the limited series, "Ripe,"...
- 7/29/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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