Brittany howard alabama shakes biography
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Alabama Shakes
American rock band
Alabama Shakes are an American rock band formed in Athens, Alabama, in 2009. The band currently consists of lead singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, and bassist Zac Cockrell.
The band began its career touring and performing at bars and clubs around the Southeastern United States for two years while honing its sound and writing music. They recorded their debut album, Boys & Girls, with producer Andrija Tokic in Nashville while still unsigned. Online acclaim led ATO Records to sign the band, which released Boys & Girls in 2012 to critical success. The album's hit single, "Hold On," was nominated for three Grammy Awards. After a long touring cycle, the band recorded its second record, Sound & Color, which was released in 2015, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and won them three Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Song for "Don't Wanna Fight." In 2018, the band won the Grammy Award for Best A
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Biography
Born
2 October 1988 (age 36)
Born In
Athens, Limestone County, Alabama, United States
Brittany Howard (born 2 October 1988 in Athens, Alabama) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter known for being the lead vocalist, guitarist, and main songwriter of rock bands Alabama Shakes and Thunderbitch. She released her debut studio skiva, Jaime, in 2019. Her work with Alabama Shakes and as a solo artist have earned her four Grammy Awards out of 11 nominations.
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Brittany Howard
Brittany Howard has a whole lot of voice. Her lyrics are rich and remarkable in their storytelling. And she sure is shaking it up in Nashville and beyond.
Brittany Howard didn't sleep so well last night. Wilma’s fault. Wilma is one of the two female dachshunds (the other is Wanda) who skitter around your feet the moment you step into her home, set back from a quiet road in East Nashville. “She was upset,” Brittany explains. “She’s just not happy with her beautiful kennel, with a very soft, expensive dog bed.”
Some nights, some days are like that. A few weeks before my visit, Brittany had posted on Instagram – on the account she has been using, in her idiosyncratic way, to boost anticipation for her second solo album, What Now – that each morning when she awakes she consults her inner child to ask who she should be on that particular day. Not today. “I just woke up and was like, Look, let’s take a shower, Brittany. Different kind of day.”
Yesterday, though.