Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world’s most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million.
Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world’s most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million. The internationally acclaimed classical guitarist has crossed numerous boundaries, both musically and romantically.
In this colourful memoir covering her life up to 1998, she serves up a rich and fascinating mix: childhood with her progressive parents in England, Canada, and Mexico, exacting music studies in Toronto, down-and-out years in London and Paris, her eight-year romance with Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, drug experimentation in a Mexican artists’ colony, and whirlwind trips around the globe to eminent concert stages.
It all makes for a rousing, feisty, passionate tale, as compelling and entrancing as the music of her Ramírez guitar.
Table des matières
Preface
Prelude
l. The Prediction
2. Setting Sail
3. Grammar School Girl
4. A Guitar for Christmas
5. Mexican Adventure
6. The Commitment
7. Paris a la Boheme
8. Have Guitar, Will Travel
9. On Tour with Lightfoot
10. “Bond, James Bond”
11. Pierre
12. “Me and Julio”
13. “Why Do You Need Royalties?”
14. Fidel Castro
15. A Normal Existence
16. Conflicts of the Heart
17. Boyd — Not Floyd!
18. Adventures in Housekeeping
19. Pilots, Planes, and Pachyderms
20. On the Road Again
21. The Ultimate Canadian Experience
22. Birth Pangs in Costa Rica
23. The Golden State
24. Noblesse Oblige
Coda
Outro
Appendix: Liona Boyd Discography and Music Publications
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Liona Boyd, known around the world as “The First Lady of the Guitar, ” has released twenty-eight albums, spanning a wide range of styles, many of which have gone gold and platinum. She has been awarded the Order of Canada, has been inducted into the Guitar Gallery of Greats, and won five Juno awards. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.
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