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Im ausverkauften Berliner Lido muss sich Beth Ditto immer wieder Luft zufächern. Zum Konzert anlässlich der Veröffentlichung ihrer neuen Platte dreht die markante Frontfrau des US-Trios Gossip die Hitze in dem proppenvollen Saal mächtig nach oben. Mit ihrer Wahnsinnsstimme und den dreckigen Gitarrenriffs bringen die 43-Jährige und ihre Band die Menge zum Kochen. Das Konzert gibt zugleich einen ordentlichen Vorgeschmack auf das neue Album «Real Power», das heute erscheint. Mehr als eine Dekade nach der bislang letzten Platte und einer zwischenzeitlichen Trennung hat das Trio aus Portland (US-Bu...
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Beth Ditto (43), Sängerin der US-Band Gossip («Heavy Cross»), genießt es, wenn sie nach einer Tour wieder in den eigenen vier Wänden ist. «Es ist wirklich toll, allein zu sein», sagte sie der Deutschen Presse-Agentur in Berlin. Wenn sie auf Reisen sei, habe sie immer eine Menge Menschen um sich. Daheim in Portland (US-Bundesstaat Oregon) wolle sie dann «einfach Ruhe haben, Musik hören und sich Zeit nehmen, etwas zu lesen». Sie reise kaum noch aus Lust, sondern in den meisten Fällen der Arbeit wegen. «Wenn man beruflich unterwegs ist, kommt man selten zum Vergnügen irgendwohin», sagte die Musik...
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Beth Ditto became "incredibly resourceful" after growing up in modest surroundings. The 43-year-old star - who is best known as the lead singer of Gossip - believes that her personality has been shaped by her upbringing in Judsonia, Arkansas. Beth - who is the middle of seven children - told the BBC: "If we wanted something, it wasn't like. 'You've got to work for it and earn it', it was, 'Why don't you learn how to make it?'" The music star still has vivid memories of her own self-reliance at an early age. She shared: "If you don't have money, and you don't have clout, it makes you incredibly...
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Beth Ditto had a boyfriend in high school despite knowing she was a lesbian. The Gossip singer decided she would embark on a heterosexual relationship but she couldn’t suppress her gay feelings and kept breaking up with him because she knew she was living a lie. Speaking on the ‘Homo Sapiens’ podcast, she said: “I had a high school boyfriend at the time but I cannot tell you how many times I broke up with him because I was gay.” The 40-year-old music star explained that her boyfriend repeatedly refused to accept the break up. She added: “I told him! I was like ‘I can’t do this’, but he was lik...
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Beth Ditto felt as though she had "a duty to show other queer kids from small towns" that they could be out and proud once she found fame with her band Gossip. The 'Standing in the Way of Control' singer grew up in a Southern Baptist area of Arkansas, which makes up part of what is known as the 'Bible Belt', a region of the Southern United States in which socially conservative Christianity plays a strong role in society and politics. Beth - who moved out of her family home, which she shared with her mother and six siblings, to live with her aunt when she was just 13 - struggled to come out as ...
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