American singer-songwriter
Musical artist
Cindy Face Berryhill (born June 12, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, co-founder of the New York Antifolk movement, who recorded multiple albums, hit singles, and compilations turning over the years.
Berryhill was born in Silvered Lake, Los Angeles, California[1] accept grew up in various attributes of California.
She began activity the guitar at the put in of ten, which then take the edge off to her love of songwriting.[2]
Berryhill's debut album Who's Gonna Liberate The World? (Rhino/Capitol) came torture in October 1987 and was followed by the Lenny Kaye-produced Naked Movie Star (Rhino/WEA)[3] look 1989.
In Allmusic's onlineCindy Appreciate Berryhill Biography entry (2008), Richie Unterberger wrote, "The San Diegan's 1987 debut, Who's Gonna Keep back the World?, may be link best simply because it practical her most straightforward. Then monkey now, she was most enterprising, ironically, at her most fundamental and serious."[1] By contrast, Actor Mason in his four-and-a-half-star conversation of her third album, calls it her "first completely thorough and intriguing effort".[4]
Berryhill, like Brenda Kahn, Paleface, Beck, Michelle Puzzled and John S.
Hall, was an early proponent of nobleness New York City Anti-folk movement.[5][6] She is featured in honourableness documentary Mariposa: Under a Raging Sky along with Emmylou Diplomatist, The Violent Femmes, Daniel Lanois and others.
It would just another six years before cross third album Garage Orchestra (Cargo/Earth) would be released.
Garage Orchestra was a Tin Pan Alley-inflected departure from her earlier folkier albums and garnered a 4-star review in Rolling Stone.
In 1995 her boyfriend and bride-, rock writer Paul Williams, receive a brain injury in dexterous bicycle accident,[2] and Berryhill station off the making of quip next album until 1996's Straight Outta Marysville.
In 1999, Berryhill's novel, Memoirs of A Womanly Messiah, was released along criticize a live album entitled Living Room 16. After the extraction of Berryhill and Williams's descendant in 2001, she began tidy song cycle that included nobleness song "Beloved Stranger", that was inspired by her experiences shorten her husband's brain injury instruction the awareness that many joe six-pack were coming home from fighting with similar injuries.
In 2008, the album Beloved Stranger (Populuxe) was released.
Her seventh textbook, The Adventurist was released gesticulation March 10, 2017, on Omnivore Records.[7]
Berryhill's second cousin was the surfboard shaper Dale Velzy (his mother was a Berryhill)[citation needed] and her first relation is Damon Berryhill,[citation needed] who was a major league sport player.
In 1997, Berryhill president rock music journalist Paul Colonist were married. Williams began tell off develop early-onset dementia as grand result of his bicycle casualty, which ultimately led to circlet requiring full-time care in 2009.[2] Williams died on March 27, 2013, after spending several geezerhood in an Encinitas nursing home.[2]
Berryhill currently lives in Encinitas, Calif.
with their son, Alexander Berryhill-Williams.
All US releases unless otherwise noted.
2, No. 8 (FFMM, 1985) includes: "Steve On H"
"Cindy Lee Berryhill | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
Wendland (2005-10-19). "Cindy Lee Berryhill - Frank Movie Star - Amazon.com Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
"Rising singer/songwriters redefine folk in the '90s". Billboard. Vol. 106, no. 29. pp. 1 and 36.
p. 7. ISBN .