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Smoking? You must be joking. photo by Kiki Smith, 1977
Adele Bertei was born in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of an Italian immigrant and a ballroom dance instructor. She became a ward of the state in 1967, with the rest of her childhood years spent in foster homes and reformatories in the greater Cleveland area. Emancipated at 17, she worked a series of jobs including OT assistant at a Veteran’s ...
Jun 18, 2023 · Adele Bertei: Early on, with my grandmother. She played stride piano in speakeasies during the Depression and had a wicked sense of rhythm, taught me how to sing harmonies. Then in 1975 I heard Patti Smith’s Horses, and finally felt that maybe — just maybe — there could be a place in music for an alien like me.
Apr 11, 2023 · Apr 11. Apr 11 Adele Bertei discusses TWIST: An American Girl, her wrenching & poignant new memoir. Tyler Nesler. Writers. The creator of the band the Bloods—the first out, queer, all-women-rock band—Adele Bertei has made a career as a singer, songwriter, writer, and director. Her resume, which spans decades and disciplines, is a who's who ...
Oct 15, 2023 · Adele Bertei began playing music in Cleveland with Pere Ubu’s legendary Peter Laughner, and as an original member of the Contortions, produced by Brian Eno on No New York. She was the pioneering creator of The Bloods—the first out, queer, all-women-rock band.
Jul 4, 2021 · 10/19 — Cleveland, Loganberry Books. I'm updating with current news as of July 4th, 2021. A memoir about my adventures with infamous Cleveland musician Peter Laughner, PETER AND THE WOLVES was released in late 2020, and WHY LABELLE MATTERS, about the Afrofuturist rockstar band of three (Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash) was ...
Mar 23, 2023 · Adele Bertei is perhaps best known for her work with the Bloods, the first out, queer, all-women-rock band, and her collaborations with artists like Matthew Sweet, Culture Club, and Sandra Bernhard. With her new memoir Twist: An American Girl, Bertei adopts the persona of young Maddie Twist and guides the reader through the turbulent events of her adolescence in Cleveland, Ohio in the late 60s and early 70s. Bertei depicts her relationship with her brilliant mother, who was schizophrenic ...
