My Brightest Diamond

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My Brightest Diamond is Shara Worden, an American singer-songwriter.

Worden is the granddaughter of an Epiphone-playing traveling evangelist; her father was a National Accordion Champion and her mother a classical organist. Having a family of wanderers who migrated across the U.S. every few years, the landscape and the musical influences were constantly changing: Spanish tangos, Sunday morning gospel, classical and jazz were the accompaniment to her home life. Her first song was recorded when she was three years old, and by the age of eight she was studying piano and performing in community musical productions.

As a teenager in Michigan, Shara honed her musical prowess singing along to Whitney Houston music videos and Mariah Carey albums. When pop music wasn’t enough, she enrolled in the music program at the University of North Texas, immersing herself in the songs of Purcell and Debussy. After college, she moved to New York City and fell in love with its cold winters and busy streets. She continued to study opera on the Upper West Side during the day, but at night she frequented downtown clubs such as Tonic, Knitting Factory, and The Living Room, catching performances by Antony & the Johnsons, Nina Nastasia, and Rebecca Moore. She began to spend less time sight-reading Mozart and more time de-tuning her Gibson electric guitar to play her own newly-written songs. Coaxed out of recital halls and onto the small stages of bars and clubs, Shara assembled a coterie of musicians to accompany her with bass and drums, music boxes, wine glasses, and wind chimes. She released two fulll albums in 2001 (AwRY and Quiet B Sides) as well as a remix album with her band entitled AwRY.

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thetrousers wrote:
Thursday morning

Wears The Trousers reviews the From The Top Of The World EP: http://www.wearsthetrousers.com/2008/10/09/my-brightest-diamond-from-the-top-of-the-world-ep-white-hinterland-luniculaire-ep-2008/

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Axtian wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

I love the picture that's up right now..but they're all beautiful.. MBD and Shara Worden is beautiful...

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WinterStorms wrote:
Monday morning

Absolutely love Shara she is amazing, it was beautiful...

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adamzZz wrote:
last week

Stunning

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electricneon2 wrote:
last week

does anyone have great concert recording on their computer and want to share ? i only have one and i would really love more because she's stunning live

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sakuL_ wrote:
last month

thanks for the link :) ... have seen her show two days back in Vienna finally ... wonderful show! Bought an LP and got it signed from her :) she was very sweet ... shame that I was so nervous, that I could barely speak :-)

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post_it wrote:
last month

Damnit! I though the concert in Berlin was today, not yesterday. Now I am distraught.

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nellyb63 wrote:
last month

Salford gig 18 September 2008 a serious hoot. Still feeling moved but smiling too

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thetrousers wrote:
last month

review of the Soho Theatre show, with photos: http://www.wearsthetrousers.com/2008/09/19/my-brightest-diamond-live-at-soho-theatre-london-150908/

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heads_bullet wrote:
last month

i got it with a guy at you tube! rejoin the link to work, i splited coz last.fm blocks it ht tp: / / w w w .media fire. com/ ? wtnmzymmzww

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TheInfatuated wrote:
last month

(Note to self: Google is my friend.) So it's "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey", Google tells me ... can't seem to find more than that 30sec clip on MOJO's website, though.

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TheInfatuated wrote:
last month

Which Beatles song did she cover?

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heads_bullet wrote:
last month

im lookin' for the beatles cover too :(

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ordinaryusacma wrote:
last month

Bring Me The Workhorse (2006) (Beni beygirin yanına götür) Tear It Down (2007) (Onu yık) ey çevirmenler ne kadar zeki olduğunuzu daha evvelde söylemiş miydim?!

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sakuL_ wrote:
last month

anyone have the Beatles cover she did for MOJO magazine this month?

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paz_ wrote:
last month

ohh sharaa!

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peacebiotch wrote:
last month

I only discovered her this summer and the first thing I thought of when listening was Alice in Wonderland.

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apollinaris wrote:
last month

Pure diamond, a heavenly amazing thing!

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gold_dust wrote:
last month

i just listened to A Thousand Shark's Teeth for the first time, and i'm IN LOVE. it's amazing. absolutely beautiful...

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everydayxangels wrote:
last month

I was going into listening to Shark's Teeth with the expectation that it would be Workhorse, and it's not. I then heard "The Ice & The Storm" and at about 3:39 is the most beautiful sound on the album. Then I really listened to "Bass Player" "Inside A Boy" "I had a pearl" and "To Pluto's Moon" and love them all. I'm still working on the rest!

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From the Top of the World single, plus free download

3 Oct 2008 | from www.mybrightestdiamond.com

From the Top of the World EP Cover art by David Stith Release date: Sept. 23, 2008 iTunes exclusive: $3.96 While Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond retains a French vocabulary more comparable…

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