My Brightest Diamond is Shara Worden an American singer-songwriter
Worden is the grandson of a Epiphone-playing traveling evangelist, her father was a National Accordion Champion, and her mother, a classical organist with a family of wanderers who migrated across the United States every two years the landscape and the musical influences were constantly changing: Spanish tango Sunday morning gospel, classical and jazz were the accompaniment to her home life Her first song was recorded when she was three years old and the age of eight she was studying piano and performing in community musical productions
As a teenager Michigan Shara honed her musical ability to sing with Whitney Houston music videos and Mariah Carey albums when pop music was not enough, she began to musik program at the University of North Texas immersing herself in songs by Henry Purcell, Claude Debussy After college she moved to New York and fell in love with its cold winters and busy streets, she continued to study opera on the Upper West Side during the day but at night She visited the center clubs such as Tonic Knitting Factory and the living room catching performances by Antony and the Johnsons Nina Nastasia, and Rebecca Moore, she began to spend less time sight-reading Mozart and more time de-tuning her Gibson electric guitar to play her own newly written songs coaxed from recital halls and on the small stages of bars and clubs, Shara assembled a coterie of musicians to follow her with bass and drums, music boxes and wind chimes, wine glasses, she released two full album2001 (obliquelyand Quiet B Sides), and a remix album with his band right oblique
The results showed her unusual versatility that mediate vocal drama of Kate Bush the soulful SEDUCTIVENESS of Nina Simone and the gothic pop of Portishead Her infatuation with theater and costumes inspired her to wear superhero capes ball gowns, or Tudor corsets on stage, depending on her mood, her deeply personal songs crossed the drama of opera, Shara at last singing about what was closest to her heart, she began to see his own music as the finest gift she could give to the world - which reflected in her name "My Brightest Diamond"
Of course, opera never really left her, and Shara results blur the lines between rock show and recital setting barock love songs with French carols and Prince covers her vocal lines reached for Puccini, but her guitar was pure PJ Harvey emphasis here was the execution of a woman whose imagination has no limits to sharpen their skills Shara studied composition with Australian composer Padma Newsome (of Clogs) and began to incorporate a string quartet in her live show influence from Nat King Cole and Henry Mancini rounded out the edges a few years later, she met Sufjan Stevens at The Medicine Show one variety show host New York City fire bombs poet Sage at Arlene's Grocery This in turn led to a yearlong sabbatical from his job done splits and round-offs (not to mention the human pyramid) as one of the infamous Illinois Makers Shara was promoted snabbt as cheerleadingcaptain
All this led to an impressive resume, but My Brightest Diamond still had no album to show for it, so in 2004 she began work on two discs: one with songs accompanied by a string quartet entitled "A Thousand Shark's Teeth" and a more standard rock album with a full band (featuring Earl Harvin on drums, Chris Bruce on bass and a song her father Keith on accordion) titled "Bring Me The Workhorse" released to critical acclaim in August 2006 on Asthmatic Kitty Records
Her songs distil stories to their most distressing points of contact: a phone call, an injured horse, one dragonfly caught in a spider's web, she does not share any information - just things that effect is a sensational compression av time for an entire event is summarized in a single note this is obviously the core of the opera But My Brightest Diamond is much more than that there is also the humor one might find in an old TV episode of Wonder Woman or Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Shara songs reconcile all the complex emotions that exist in each of us: she can provide as comfortable as she can laugh, sometimes in the same breath
