Marsha Hunt (singer)

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Marsha Hunt (born April 15, 1946 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American singer and writer, who is also known as a model and actress.

biography

Hunt grew up in a humble family in Philadelphia. In 1960 the family moved to California, where Hunt attended Oakland High School. It was not until she was 15 that she found out that her father, who did not live with the family, had committed suicide three years earlier. As a student at the University of California at Berkeley, Hunt took part in protests against the Vietnam War.

In 1966 Marsha Hunt traveled to the UK, where she met Mike Ratledge of the band Soft Machine , whom she married in 1967. She worked as a singer, among others in Alexis Korner's trio "Free at Last" and in the band The Ferris Wheel . In 1968 she played Dionne in the musical Hair in London . Hunt's promotional photos for the musical, taken by Patrick Lichfield , caused a sensation. As a model, she was featured on the cover of the fashion magazine Queen and in Vogue magazine . In Germany in 1968 she was one of the models in a large-scale advertising campaign for Afri-Cola , designed by Charles Wilp .

In 1969 Hunt performed with the band White Trash at the Isle of Wight Festival . In the same year, their first single, Walk on Gilded Splinters (originally by Dr. John ) was released. She had relationships with Marc Bolan and Mick Jagger, among others . Their daughter Karis Jagger was born on November 4, 1970, Jagger's first child and Hunt's only child. Hunt was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones song Brown Sugar , which first appeared in the film Gimme Shelter (recorded in 1969).

In 1971, Hunt's first album Woman Child came out, which was later released in Germany under the name Desdemona . That same year, Hunt played Bianca in the musical Catch My Soul , a rock and roll version of Shakespeare's Othello. In 1975 she starred in The Skin of Our Teeth (Eng. We Got Away Again ) by Thornton Wilder . In 1977 she released a disco album with Marsha , which was produced by Pete Bellotte, a partner of Giorgio Moroder , in Munich.

Marsha Hunt was also active as an actress. In addition to appearances in various films and TV series, she played the role of Gaynor in the hammer film Dracula hunts mini girls in 1972 alongside Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing .

Marsha Hunt began writing in the mid-1980s. Her autobiography Real Life: The Story of a Survivor was released in 1986. In 1990 she published her first novel Joy , followed by Free (1992) and Like Venus Fading (1998).

In 1991 Hunt starred in the London premiere of Arthur Miller's play The Ride Down Mount Morgan . In 1994 she staged a monodrama based on her novel Joy and directed by her daughter Karis Jagger. In 1996, Hunt Reprocessing published Ernestine: A Granddaughter Uncovers the Secret History of Her American Family , in which she described her search for the story of her grandmother, who had spent over 50 years in asylums.

In 2004 Marsha Hunt was diagnosed with breast cancer. She documented her fight against cancer and the subsequent MRSA infection in the book Undefeated (2005).

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Walk On Gilded Splinters
  UK 46 05/27/1969 (2 weeks)
Keep The Customer Satisfied
  DE 30th 06/15/1970 (3 weeks)
  UK 41 05/02/1970 (1 week)

Albums

  • Woman Child (1971, published in Germany 1974 also under the name Desdemona )
  • Marsha Hunt (1975)
  • Marsha (1977)
  • Walk on Gilded Splinters (CD compilation 1987, reissued 1994)

Singles (selection)

  • Walk on Gilded Splinters (1969)
  • Desdemona (1969)
  • Keep the Customer Satified (1971)
  • (Oh, No! Not!) The Beast Day (1973)
  • C'est la vie (1976)
  • The Other Side of Midnight (1977)

bibliography

Autobiographical works

  • Real Life: The Story of a Survivor (1986)
  • Reprocessing Ernestine: A Granddaughter Uncovers the Secret History of Her American Family (1996)
  • Undefeated: Am I The Same Girl? (2005)

Novels

  • Joy (1990, German under the same title 1991)
  • Free (1992)
  • Like Venus Fading (1998)

Others

  • The Junk Yard: Voices From an Irish Prison (1999, edited by Marsha Hunt)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Barry Egan: I'm lucky that I grew up poor . Independent.ie, August 31, 2008 (English)
  2. ^ Richard Metzger: Marsha Hunt: Brown Sugar . Dangerousminds.net, July 14, 2011 (English). With photos and videos
  3. ^ A b Jenny Johnston: Marsha Hunt: 'I'm glad Mick didn't help raise our girl' . Dailymail.co.uk, September 26, 2008 (English)
  4. ↑ Harald Keller: The great Afri-Cola intoxication . Faz.net, August 28, 2008
  5. ↑ According to information on Discogs, see web links
  6. ↑ Marsha Hunt on imdb.de
  7. ↑ Nadine Brozan: Chronicle . Nytimes.com, August 20, 1994 (English)
  8. ↑ Isla Whitcroft: She's the Sixties Icon Who Had a Child By Mick Jagger . Redorbit.com, September 27, 2005 (English)
  9. ^ Undefeated after battle with cancer . Scotsman.com, October 26, 2005 (English)
  10. ↑ Chart sources: DE UK
personal data
SURNAME Hunt, Marsha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer, writer, actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania