Feminism, Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 10/25/2009
Support Women Artists Sunday: Kissing Cousins
Kissing Cousins front-tress Heather B. Heywood grew up in the ghetto-rural outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama in the home of her step-father, a charismatic Pentecostal preacher. Most of the congregation was black and Heywood was influenced by soulful and woeful music in addition to witnessing some most confusing situations like exorcisms, speaking in tongues, and parishioners being “slain in the spirit.”
Heywood was tormented as she grew older and realized her normal life wasn’t so normal and that there were a myriad of ways of to understand life. This wounded spirituality was her muse as she fronted bands around Birmingham. Heywood relocated to LA and played guitar in a couple of bands, Map and Summer Darling.Wanting to do more than play bass for the boys, Heather founded Kissing Cousins in the …
