Eden Atwood

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Eden Atwood (born January 11, 1969 in Memphis ) is an American jazz singer , actress and advocate for civil rights for intersex people.

Career

Atwood was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Helen Guthrie Miller and Hubbard "Hub" Atwood, a composer and arranger for Frank Sinatra , Nat King Cole, and others. She is also the granddaughter of writer AB Guthrie, Jr. After their parents' divorce, she moved to Montana with her mother when she was five . She studied acting at the University of Montana in Missoula and music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago , worked as a model, actress and jazz singer in local clubs. In 1992 she released her debut album Today! at Southport Records. At the age of 23, Eden Atwood signed a recording deal with Concord Records . Shortly thereafter, the album No One Ever Tells You (1992, Concord Records) was released. She recorded the album There Again (1994, Concord Records) with Marian McPartland . A total of 13 music albums have been released by her so far.

Eden Atwood received her Masters of Social Work from Walla Walla University , College Place, Washington in December 2013 . She lives in Missoula, Montana.

Intersex

Eden Atwood was born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). AIS is an intersex personality trait that occurs in about 1 in 20,000 people. In a person with complete AIS, the body's cells cannot respond to androgens, or “male” hormones. Eden discussed her life as a woman with AIS for the first time publicly with Bill Kohlhaase ( Finding Eden: A Singer's Journey ) in the liner notes for her 2002 album Waves: The Bossa Nova Session (2002, GrooveNote Records).

Discography

  • Today! (Southport, 1992)
  • No One Ever Tells You (Concord Records, 1992)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Concord Records, 1993)
  • There Again (Concord Records, 1994)
  • A Night in the Life (Concord Records, 1996)
  • Wild Women Don't Get the Blues: Eden Atwood and The Last Best Band (in-house production, 1996)
  • The Girl From Ipanema: Jeremy Monteiro & Friends with Special Guest Star, Eden Atwood (Sangaji Records, 2002)
  • My Ideal (Sangaji Records, 2002)
  • Waves: The Bossa Nova Session (GrooveNote Records, 2002)
  • This Is Always: The Ballad Session (GrooveNote Records, 2004)
  • Turn Me Loose (SSJ Records, 2010)
  • Like Someone In Love (SSJ Records, 2010)
  • Angel Eyes (SSJ Records, 2013)

Filmography

  • 1992: Loving (TV series)
  • 1994: The Good Life (TV series)
  • The Chief of Police The Commish (TV series, 3 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eden Atwood. (No longer available online.) Jazz.com, archived from the original on March 25, 2012 ; Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Eden Atwood. (No longer available online.) In: Montana Kids. Montana Office of Tourism, archived from the original on June 10, 2019 ; Retrieved August 9, 2011 .
  3. ↑ a b c Eden Atwood at Allmusic (English)
  4. ^ Keith L. Moore, TVN Persaud, Mark G. Torchia: The Developing Human. Clinically Oriented Embryology . 9th edition. Saunders / Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA 2013, ISBN 978-1-4377-2002-0 , Chapter 12, pp. 265-303 .
  5. ^ Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) . Intersex Society of North America. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
  6. ↑ Bill Kohlhaase: Finding Eden: A Singer's Journey. (Waves: The Bossa Nova Session, 2002, liner notes). (No longer available online.) In: interfaceproject.org. Interface Project, archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; accessed on June 28, 2019 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Atwood, Eden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer, actress, and intersex civil rights advocate
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Memphis