Though she has been making music for over 35 years, her thick, unapologetic voice can still stir you to the core. In each note is her every experience. Her joys, her sorrows. Her pleasure, her pain. Her life and her loss. She draws in listeners with a sincerity that rings in her vibrato and an aura of authenticity emitted through guttural tones. You are able to understand her genuinely emotional experiences, even without knowing them. She inspires from afar, and her uniqueness, mixed with a bold and fearless approach to life, has made her an icon.
Smith is many things, but conventional she is not. Though many admire not only Smith’s work but Smith herself — and the deliberate, meaningful ways in which she chooses to live her life — very few have access to Smith’s offstage world.
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