num_pages: 336
description: The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter producer and six-time Grammy winner opens up about a life shaped by music in this candid heartfelt and intimate story.Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change moving from house to house trailer to trailer 14 times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five Brandi contracted bacterial meningitis which almost took her life leaving an indelible mark on her formative years and altering her journey into young adulthood.As an openly gay teenager Brandi grappled with the tension between her sexuality and her faith when her pastor publicly refused to baptize her on the day of the ceremony. Shockingly her small town rallied around Brandi in support and set her on a path to salvation where the rest of the misfits and rejects find it: through twisted joyful weird and wonderful music.In Broken Horses Brandi Carlile takes listeners through the events of her life that shaped her very raw art - from her start at a local singing competition where she performed Elton Johns Honky Cat in a bedazzled white polyester suit to her first break opening for Dave Matthews Band to many sleepless tours over 15 years and six studio albums all while raising two children with her wife Catherine Shepherd. This hard-won success led her to collaborations with personal heroes like Elton John Dolly Parton Mavis Staples Pearl Jam Tanya Tucker and Joni Mitchell as well as her peers in the supergroup The Highwomen and ultimately to the Grammy stage where she converted millions of viewers into instant fans.Evocative and piercingly honest Broken Horses is at once an examination of faith through the eyes of a person rejected by the churchs basic tenets and a meditation on the moments and lyrics that have shaped the life of a creative mind a brilliant artist and a genuine empath on a mission to give back.
language: English
title: Broken Horses
publisher: Crown