„Brittany Howard“ – Versionsunterschied – Wikipedia

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==Early life==

Howard was born in [[Athens, Alabama]]<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alabama-shakes-unlikely-triumph-20130228 |title=Alabama Shakes' Unlikely Triumph |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |last=Hermes |first=Will |authorlink=Will Hermes |date=February 28, 2013 |accessdate=March 11, 2015}}</ref> to a white mother and an African American father.<ref name="bet">{{cite web |url=http://www.bet.com/news/music/2013/06/25/brittany-howard-of-the-alabama-shakes-i-don-t-think-about-color.html |title=Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes: "I Don't Think About Color" |website=[[BET]] |publisher=[[Viacom International]] |last=Cane |first=Clay |date=June 25, 2013 |accessdate=March 11, 2015}}</ref> The family house was in a junk yard, and once burned down due to a lightning strike.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/01/28/464631594/alabama-shakes-brittany-howard-on-small-town-life-big-time-music |title=Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard On Small-Town Life, Big-Time Music |date=January 28, 2016 |website=[[NPR]]}}</ref> She learned to write poetry and play the piano from her older sister Jamie, who died from retinal cancer[[retinoblastoma]] in 1998; Howard got the same affliction but survived with partial blindness in one eye. Her father left the family soon after.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/alabama-shakes-interview-i-didnt-think-i-wanted-to-do-this-any-more-10363116.html |title=Alabama Shakes interview: 'I didn't think I wanted to do this any more' |date=July 3, 2015 |first=Emily |last=Jupp |newspaper=[[The Independent]] }}</ref>

She began playing the guitar at age 13,<ref name="bio"/> and later attended [[Limestone County School District|East Limestone High School]], where she met future [[Alabama Shakes]] bassist Zac Cockrell.<ref name="bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/brittany-howard-21196677 |title=Brittany Howard - Singer |website=[[Biography (TV series)|Biography]] |publisher=[[A&E (TV channel)|A&E]] |date=March 11, 2015 |accessdate=March 11, 2015}}</ref> She worked for the [[United States Postal Service]] until becoming a full-time musician as lead singer of Alabama Shakes.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/magazine/alabama-shakess-soul-stirring-shape-shifting-new-sound.html |title=Alabama Shakes's Soul-Stirring, Shape-Shifting New Sound |first=Joe |last=Rhodes |date=March 18, 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=December 15, 2015}}</ref>