Susan Silver

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Susan Jean Silver (born July 17, 1958 in Seattle ) is an American music manager who became known as the manager of Seattle rock and grunge bands such as Soundgarden , Alice in Chains and Screaming Trees . Silver also owns Susan Silver Management and The Crocodile Club in Seattle.

biography

Silver was born on July 17, 1958 in Seattle, Washington, and was the eldest of three children of Samuel and Emmogene (Jean) Silver.

Silver studied Chinese at the University of Washington .

Silver began working as a music manager in 1983. Her first customers were the bands The U-Men and First Thought. In 1985, Silver met Soundgarden , whose lead singer was her boyfriend at the time, Chris Cornell , and the following year she began managing the band. At that time, Silver was also working for Screaming Trees .

Silver's customers in the 1990s included Alice in Chains , Hater, Inflatable Soule, Crackerbox, Sweet Water, Sponge, singer Kristen Barry, and record producer Terry Date .

Since 2009 Silver has been co-manager of Alice in Chains alongside David Benveniste with his company Velvet Hammer Management.

Other ventures

Silver has co-owned The Crocodile Club in Seattle since 2009 with Sean Kinney , Alice in Chains drummer ; the co-founder of the Capitol Hill Block Party, Marcus Charles; Peggy Curtis; and Portugal. The Man guitarist Eric Howk.

Private life

In 1985 Silver began dating Chris Cornell , the lead singer for Soundgarden , the band she managed a year later, and they married in 1990. Cornell wrote Moonchild from his debut solo album, Euphoria Morning, for Silver. The couple's first and only child, a daughter named Lillian Jean, was born in June 2000. Silver and Cornell divorced in 2004.

At a press conference in 2002, asked for his hero, called the singer and guitarist of Alice in Chains , Jerry Cantrell , Silver as one of his heroes. Cantrell also thanked Silver for receiving the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award in his speech at the MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit on May 31, 2012.

literature

  • Greg Prato: Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music . ECW Press, 2009. ISBN 9781554903474 .
  • Mark Yarm: Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge . Three Rivers Press, 2011. ISBN 9780307464446 .
  • David De Sola: Alice In Chains: The Untold Story . Thomas Dunne Books, 2015. ISBN 9781250048073 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David De Sola: Alice In Chains: The Untold Story . Thomas Dunne Books. 4th August 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Susan Silver . In: Stargate . Archived from the original on June 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Faces To Watch In '91 - A Look At Up-And-Comers Who Will Be Helping To Shape The Arts This Year . In: The Seattle Times . January 6, 1991. Archived from the original on June 3, 2017.
  4. ^ Recording Academy's Pacific Northwest Chapter Elects Leadership . In: Mix Online . August 25, 2003.
  5. ↑ a b c d The Return of The Crocodile . March 26, 2009. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  6. ↑ Emmogene Molly (Jean) Silver . In: Legacy.com . 23rd January 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Jae-Ha Kim: Susan Silver steers careers toward rock stardom . In: Chicago Sun-Times . April 27, 1997. Archived from the original on November 25, 2004.
  8. ^ Mark Yarm, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge . Three Rivers Press. September 6, 2011.
  9. ^ Soundgarden: New Metal Crown . In: Google Books . September 15, 1995.
  10. ↑ Inflatable Soule Is Band That Is On Its Way Up . In: The Seattle Times . August 19, 1994.
  11. ↑ a b c Chris Cornell, Searching for Solitude . In: Pitchfork . 19th May 2017.
  12. ↑ Kristen Barry . In: These Streets .
  13. ↑ Alice In Chains Signs With Virgin / EMI . In: Blabbermouth.net . April 25, 2009. Archived from the original on April 27, 2009.
  14. ↑ Legendary Crocodile, the cradle of grunge, rocks into its next stage . March 21, 2009.
  15. ↑ Alice in Chains' Homecoming . February 2, 2010.
  16. ↑ Becoming Chris Cornell: Inside the Early Days of Soundgarden . In: Billboard . May 15, 2017. Archived from the original on May 29, 2017.
  17. ^ Chris Cornell: His Rise to the Top of the Seattle Scene . In: People . May 18, 2017. Archived from the original on May 22, 2017.
  18. ↑ Chris Cornell Talks 'Euphoria Morning' in 1999 SPIN Interview . In: SPIN Magazine . 18th May 2017.
  19. ↑ Chris Cornell Feels "Euphoria" With Newborn Daughter . July 6, 2000. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017.
  20. ↑ Chris Cornell, Singer with Soundgarden and Audioslave, Dies at 52 . In: Billboard . Archived from the original on May 18, 2017.
  21. ↑ Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell: "Layne Staley, Sean Kinney and Susan Silver are my heroes" . In: YouTube .
  22. ↑ Jerry Cantrell Thanks Alice in Chains' Manager Susan Silver in his Stevie Ray Vaughan Award Speech . In: YouTube .
personal data
SURNAME Silver, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silver, Susan Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music manager
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle