Brittany Howard taught herself to play the guitar when she was 11 years old. “I had no options, and I didn’t care about anything else,” she says.
her, but I was, like, ‘Man, I wish Georgia would work with me!’ So I’m walking around the house going, ‘I just want Georgia / To notice me.’ ” Howard realized that the line was actually a chorus, and choked the sandwich down. “I’m hearing everything so suddenly, the most important thing is time,” she said.
Howard was wearing black leggings, slip-on sandals, a green T-shirt, and a black plaid button-down. A gold Libra medallion hung on a long chain around her neck. Howard has several tattoos, including two thin black lines that extend from the outside corner of her left eye, toward her ear. Most celebrities claim a kind of radical transparency, but Howard actually appears to be constitutionally incapable of bullshit. She laughs heartily if anyone, including herself, says something dishonest.
Both Howard and Jaime were born with retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer that can lead to blindness; Howard has only partial vision in her left eye. When Jaime was eleven, she became seriously ill. “She woke up one day, and she couldn’t see,” Howard said. “It was hospitals, until it got worse and worse and worse. Then it was hospice. Then it was over.” Howard was eight when Jaime died. Her parents divorced soon afterward.
Howard came out when she was in her twenties, following a period of serious self-interrogation. She hadn’t encountered many openly gay people growing up. “When I lived in Athens, gay people looked a certain way, and I didn’t look like them,” she said. “Then, when I went to the city, I was, like, ‘Oh! There’s actually not a look.’ And they were. The gay people where I was from were very sad and heartbroken.” Howard told her parents about her sexuality a few years ago.
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