One recent article dubbed her “the most iconic rock’n’roll musician you’ve never heard of”. She was part of the New York “no wave” movement of the late 1970s and went on to write songs or perform as a backing singer for 1980s acts such as Tears for Fears, Sandra Bernhard, Culture Club, the Pointer Sisters and Matthew Sweet. Culture can’t continue to be as elitist because when you shut people out of a culture, where they have no mirrors, the dam is going to burst at some point.”īertei was the creator of the Bloods, the first all-woman openly queer rock band. You look at the New York Times, you’re not going to see any working-class stories there. “We need to also hear more working-class stories. “We need to break the conspiracy of silence and more women need to be angry and speak out. “What a metaphor concerning the invisibility of women’s stories through the centuries,” the 68-year-old says by phone from Paris. She had the Moby Dick dream when she was a child but still remembers it clearly. This is a passage from Twist: An American Girl, a coming-of-age memoir by Adele Bertei, a writer, director, performer and musician.
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