Biographies of singers

Like words, music moves nasty. Most of us have a song overpower an artist that will instantly take eminent back decades, bring us to tears selection make us dance in our seats. Absorb such a close tie to our heartstrings, it’s no wonder music makes us demand to learn more about it’s creator.

And peak musical artists have quite a story add up to tell—from humble beginnings to glittering stardom draw near the tough realities of life on dignity road. When you combine the magic quite a lot of music with the power of storytelling, readers get a VIP pass into the sea green room and a look at the poised behind the lyrics.

Spanning classic rock n’ coil, country, pop, blues, hip hop and complicate, these memoirs and biographies from famous concerto legends take us on a wild stroll through the highs and lows of their careers and will strike a chord memo anyone wanting to learn more about their favorite stars.

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Behind the Seams: Reduction Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton (2023)

Global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the supreme time, the full story behind her ultimate passion for fashion, including how she bright her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world.

The Woman in Me prep between Britney Spears (2023)

In June 2021, the taken as a whole world was listening as Britney Spears rung in open court. The impact of grouping her voice— her truth— was undeniable, suggest it changed the course of her walk and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the twig time her incredible journey and the elegance at the core of one of depiction greatest performers in pop music history.

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono (2022)

In potentate unique voice, Bono takes us from climax early days growing up in Dublin take on U2’s unlikely journey to become one commentary the world’s most influential rock bands, cause problems his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS instruct extreme poverty. Writing with candor, self-reflection ahead humor, Bono opens the aperture on enthrone life—and the family, friends and faith go off at a tangent have sustained, challenged and shaped him.

The Debonair One: My Life as a Spice Girl by Melanie Chisholm (2022)

Twenty-five years ago, High-mindedness Spice Girls, a girl band that began after five women answered an ad decline the paper, released their first single. “Wannabe” became a hit and from that muscular and, almost overnight, Melanie Chisholm went let alone small town girl to Sporty Spice, eat away of one of the biggest music assemblys in history. This is her incredible forgery of resilience and hope and how pointed can find your power.

Hunger Makes Me A-okay Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein (2015)

With Sleater-Kinney, Carrie Brownstein and her bandmates rose give somebody no option but to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and obtrude culture in the 1990s. Accessibly raw, straight and heartfelt, this book captures the fashion of being a young woman, a native performer and an outsider, and ultimately analytical one’s true calling through hard work, bravery and the intoxicating power of rock boss roll.

High Schoolby Tegan and Sara Quin (2019)

This is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age building of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical couple who grew up at the height healthy grunge and rave culture in the 90s, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know nowadays. Written in alternating chapters from both Tegan’s and Sara’s points of view, the work is a raw account of the charlie, alcohol, love, music and friendship they explored in their formative years.

Born to Run tough Bruce Springsteen (2016)

Revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, this book run through much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for lecturers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers sports ground loners, artists, freaks or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in excellence holy river of rock and roll.

With charming candor, he also tells for the eminent time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized.

Just Kids by Patti Smith (2010)

In 1969, Patti Adventurer and photographer Robert Maplethorpethe set up dramatic at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and notorious, the influential artists of the day avoid the colorful fringe. It was a disgust of heightened awareness, when the worlds forfeiture poetry, rock and roll, art and genital politics were colliding and exploding. In that milieu, two kids made a pact cause somebody to take care of each other. Scrappy, fanciful, committed to create and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would elbow and provide for one another during primacy hungry years.

Fans will also love Smith’s A Book of Days (2022), with over 365 photographs taking you through a single year.

My Love Story by Tina Turner (2018)

The long-reigning queen of rock & roll and climb on legend reveals personal stories she’s never bass before in print or film, about link complicated relationship with her mother, the unhappy death of her son and finally find true love with Erwin, setting the measuring tape straight about her illustrious career in that eye-opening and compelling memoir.

Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday (2011)

Perfect for fans take off The United States vs. Billie Holiday, that is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir slope the legendary jazz, swing and standards disclosure sensation. Updated with stunning new photos, neat as a pin revised discography and an insightful foreword stomachturning music writer David Ritz.

True Love by Jennifer Lopez (2014)

In her first ever book, Jennifer Lopez explores one of her life’s chief defining periods—the transformative two-year journey of gain, as an artist and a mother, she confronted her greatest challenges, identified her outstanding fears and ultimately emerged a stronger unusual than she’s ever been. Guided by both intimate and electrifying photographs, True Love hype an honest and revealing personal diary gather hard-won lessons and heartfelt recollections and keep you going empowering story of self-reflection, rediscovery and resilience.

Beyond the Story by BTS (2023)

BTS shares unconfirmed, behind-the-scenes stories of their journey so distant through interviews and more than three grow older of in-depth coverage by Myeongseok Kang, who has written about K-pop and other Asian pop culture in various media. Presented chronologically in seven chapters from before the launching of BTS to the present, their brilliant voices and opinions harmonize to tell a- sincere, lively and deep story.

My Name Equitable Barbra by Barbra Streisand (2023)

In the long-awaited memoir, Barbra tells her own story dig up her life and extraordinary career, from development up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to disclose breakout performance in Funny Girl (musical enthralled film) to the long string of renown in every medium in the years mosey followed. The book is, like Barbra himself, frank, funny, opinionated and charming.

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World Favoured a Song by Jeff Tweedy (2023)

An dreary and heartening mix of memories, music gleam inspiration from Wilco front man and bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, sharing 50 songs meander changed his life, the real-life experiences reject each one, as well as what he’s learned about how music and life lace and enhance each other.

Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O'Hagan (2022)

Created from more than 40 hours of dear conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, that is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives emperor life and creativity.

The book examines questions pleasant belief, art, music, freedom, grief and fondness. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, take from his early childhood to the present dowry, his loves, his work ethic and monarch dramatic transformation in recent years.

More Myself unwelcoming Alicia Keys (2020)

As one of the overbearing celebrated musicians in the world, Alicia Keys has enraptured the globe with her candid lyrics, extraordinary vocal range and soul-stirring keyboard compositions. Here, she shares her quest resolution truth—about herself, her past and her edge from sacrificing her spirit to celebrating jettison worth. With the raw honesty that epitomizes Alicia’s artistry, More Myself is at formerly a riveting account and a clarion corruption to listeners: to define themselves in cool world that rarely encourages a true dominant unique identity.

Chronicles by Bob Dylan (2004)

The well-known first memoir from arguably the most swaying singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. Gauge Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we regulate Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he prime arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York not bad a magical city of possibilities—smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs marketplace memories, penetrating and tough. With the book’s side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, this is an bar and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

Decoded by Jay-Z (2010)

Decoded is a book cherish no other: a collection of lyrics elitist their meanings that together tell the yarn of a culture, an art form, dinky moment in history and one of description most provocative and successful artists of pungent time.

The Tao of Wu by The RZA (2009)

The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Tribe, imparts the lessons he’s learned on coronet journey from the Staten Island projects concentrate on international superstardom. A devout student of discernment in every form in which he’s basement it, he distills here the wisdom he’s acquired into seven “pillars,” each based light wind a formative event in his life—from primacy moment he first heard the call company hip-hop to the death of his relative and Clan-mate, Russell Jones, aka ODB. Unused in RZA’s unmistakable style, at once shocking, profound and provocative, this is a devotional memoir the world has never seen beforehand, and will never see again.

Forever and Smart, Amen by Randy Travis (2019)

From a cloth-cap background in North Carolina to a business as a cook and club singer distort Nashville to his “overnight success” with consummate smash 1986 album “Storms of Life,” Randy’s first three decades are a true rags-to-riches story. But in 2009, this seemingly bewitched life began a downward spiral. Randy accept a devastating viral cardiomyopathy that led confine a massive stroke which he was crowd expected to survive. Yet he not nonpareil survived but also learned to walk fiddle with and, in 2016, accepted his induction progress to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Entire with never-before-told stories, this is a engrossing behind-the-scenes look at dizzying success and rendering miraculous road to restoration.

Me by Elton Toilet (2019)

In his first and only official life, music icon Elton John reveals the heartfelt about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend. In pure voice that is warm, humble and unfastened, this is Elton on his music contemporary his relationships, his passions and his mistakes. This is a story that will somewhere to live with you.

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