Saturday, October 12, 2013

Fifty-Eight Today





High Egoslavian Holy Day! Jane Siberry is fifty-eight today, her music is inextricably woven into my memories of my first years with Earthgirl, the concerts, especially ones at Goucher College in Towson and in Gaston Hall (Hamster was there) one hundred yards from my cubicle at Georgetown (when she sang an ethereal Calling All Angels even though she'd shifted by then into her one album incarnation as a jazz chanteuse at that stage, before the one album incarnation into a kid's song writer, before decided she didn't want to be Jane Siberry anymore and reinvented herself as Issa, whose music and art I respect but don't love). When we visit the marina in Deale, the first place we shared, my brain's radio plays Jane Siberry, when I drive by the house in Glen Echo that was next my brain's radio plays Jane Siberry.




  
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2 comments:

  1. apparently her 'issa' phase has run its course - from the wikipedia article -



    "I felt the need to make some strong changes in my life. It seemed important to change my name, so I did. I changed it to a name that I thought was simple, an empty cup. I had never heard the name Issa before, and it turns out to have some wonderful meanings, including a haiku poet in Japan, and the name that Jesus had in India. But two weeks ago I officially changed my name back to Jane Siberry. I felt with the name change, I had gotten in my own way, in terms of devoting myself to my career, making my work available to people. So, Jane Siberry is my name again until further notice, but I feel richer from having been Issa for three years."

    Jane Siberry, 2009

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    1. Yeah, I know. Her Jane-again music doesn't sing to me. I wish her peace and good fortune and happiness and will check in every birthday hoping to be surprised by what the last year brought.

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