As a kid, the former Alabama Shakes singer/guitarist was told repeatedly she didn't look like a lead singer. 'It made me sing ... louder and perform just as hard as I could,' Howard says.
"No matter what, there's one thing you can't deny ... that I am giving it everything and leaving nothing," Brittany Howard says.knew she wanted to be in a band. She remembers seeing some kids from the local high school performing, and it was like a door opened in her mind:"I said, 'That's what I want to do.'"
Today, Howard is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer. But at the time she was a poor, biracial kid in a small Alabama town. When she began seeking out musicians to play with, she was told repeatedly that she didn't look like a lead singer. "It made me sing harder and sing louder and perform just as hard as I could perform," she says of the rejections."Because no matter what, there's one thing you can't deny ... that I am giving it everything and leaving nothing."Therese Madden and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz and Molly Seavy-Nesper adapted it for the web.
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