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Judee Sill ～The Kiss～
There is often a disconnect between an artist's real life and the art he or she creates.
Judee Sill is one of those artists.
When I listen to her music, it seems to be full of all sorts of nourishment, forgiveness, and the joys and sorrows of life.
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When her father died of pneumonia at the age of eight, her mother moved to Los Angeles with the two young children. When her father died of pneumonia at the age of eight, her mother moved to Los Angeles with her two young children. After her mother remarried, she became addicted to alcohol, and Judy began to rebel against her mother, stealing and doing drugs with her high school friends.
Judy was sent to a reformatory, where she was introduced to gospel and other church music and learned to play the piano.
After getting out of juvenile detention, he returned to Los Angeles and worked as a keyboard player in bars, etc. While working there, he met Graham Nash, David Crosby, and David Geffin, who founded Asylum Records, and began his music career in earnest. His first album, "Judee Sill," was produced by Graham Nash and received high acclaim. However, it took two years to record her second album, "Heart Food," and by the time she was ready to record her third album, she had become a drug addict again, so the project did not go ahead.
In 1979, Judy, who was severely addicted to drugs, quietly and without anyone knowing, ended her short life at the age of 35 with an overdose of cocaine.
The Kiss" from the second album, "Heart Food", is a conversation with an angel, a prayer to God?
Once a crystal choir
appeared while I was sleepin'
and called my name
and when they came down nearer
Sayin', “dying is done”,
then a new song was sung
until somewhere we breathed as one
(and still I hear their whisper)
The poem is haunting, as if he had anticipated his own lonely and horrible end. I wonder if an angel appeared to him at the moment of death and whispered, "Death is over.
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