Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator. Arrow Created with Sketch. Calendar Created with Sketch. Path Created with Sketch. What followed was an amazing 7-year friendship during which she entrusted me with telling her story in a film that celebrates her life, her talents and her amazing legacy.
I will forever be grateful to Helen for teaching me so much about being an artist, a woman and a mother. She paved the way for so many and the lyrics that she wrote for I am Woman changed my life forever like they have done for so many other people and will continue to do for generations to come.
She will always be a part of me and I will miss her enormously. Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. All Rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. In an era when pop-star fashion ran to road-worn denim or glam-rock frippery, Reddy took the middle path: stylish but toned down. Her vocal inflections would have done her proud on the lounge jazz circuit; in the pop world, she was almost too refined.
They were actors and Helen followed them into show business at the age of four. It was their idea rather than hers, but she gamely sang and danced until, aged 17, she rebelled. At 20 she married Kenneth Weate, a musician. During their brief time together, they had a daughter, Traci. Reddy won a radio talent contest in and went to New York to claim her prize, an audition for Mercury Records.
That was unsuccessful and she took singing jobs in clubs and casinos. During her early months in New York she met Wald, a William Morris talent agent, and married him three days later. Their son, Jordan, was born in A short, unsuccessful deal with Fontana Records was followed by a move to LA, where Reddy secured a more fruitful contract with Capitol Records.
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