Valerie June
Valerie June
Valerie June Hockett, known as Valerie June, is an Americana singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Her sound encompasses a mixture of folk, blues, gospel, soul, country, Appalachian and bluegrass. She is signed to Sunday Best label in the UK/Europe and Concord Music Group in North America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 January 1982
CountryUnited States of America
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As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
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I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
confuses music people
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.
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My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.
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I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.