Daisann mclane biography
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: An oldie from my archives–this article appeared in the 1990s, in a magazine that no longer exists. My calypso career as “Lady Complainer” began in 1984 and continued until 1986. Ah what nights! Singing my calypso number, sandwiched in the bill between a Chinese Trinidadian guy (who was hired as a comedy act because he sang off key and completely out of rhythm), and a pair of singing midgets. Our little group of calypsonians sang all over the island, setting up stage in empty lots, in an old movie house in Chaguanas (the town where VS Naipaul was born), and in the mittpunkt of cricket patches, and in the cane fields. I remember the smell of burning sugar and sweat, of home brew rum and Florida vatten cologne. inom do not think inom have ever felt so electric and alive as I did standing before the most demanding audiences in the world.
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Terence Trent D'Arby - Softcover
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This is a biography of Terence Trent d'Arby, who, though surrounded by a mass of publicity even before the release of his first record, has remained an enigmatic figure. Thwarted by his reluctance to be interviewed, the media has concentrated on a few bare facts about his life in the USA before he moved to Europe and various speculation. Daisann McLane, however, has spoken to him about his American background, his family and his upbringing in his father's Pentecostal church. She has had access to his family and friends and reveals his childhood in Florida, his success as a Golden Gloves champion boxer, his desertion from the US Army as well as the development of his phenomenal musical career. The author is a regular contributor to "Rolling Stone" and "Village Voice" magazines and is well known as Lady Complainer, the calypso singer.
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Daisann McLane is an award winning travel writer and photographer, contributing editor for National Geographic Traveler Magazine, and a successful entrepreneur who is the managing director of Little Adventures in Hong Kong, a bespoke food walk company.
She’s a 5 time winner of the society’s prestigious Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award; her book, Cheap Hotels (Taschen) won the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for best American travel book of 2003.
Before joining National Geographic, McLane wrote the “Frugal Traveler” column for The New York Times’ travel section for six years, during which time she reported from more than 40 countries. In her distinguished and unorthodox career she has written about travel, culture, food, music and politics for numerous media outlets including the International Herald Tribune, Travel + Leisure, Departures, slate.com, Conde Nast Traveler, Rolling Stone, NPR, the Village Voice and Vogue.
She’s also sung calypso in Trin