Hot on the heels of this year’s Academy Award winning documentary, “20 Feet From Stardom”, singer Darlene Love makes her first live performance ever in the Monterey Bay area, Sunday, June 29th at the Golden State Theater in Monterey.
Once a backup singer, then a girl group diva and now a superstar vocalist, Darlene Love is at the top of her 60 year plus career and having the time of her life thanks the success of Oscar winning music documentary, “20 Feet From Stardom”.
If you’ve seen the film, you know that Love’s career is legendary, If you haven’t watched “20 Feet” do so immediately so I won’t have to repeat the story of the vocalist’s early career singing in obscurity behind many of the music industry’s top ten rock n roll hits of the ‘60’s and 70’s with low pay and no name recognition until the mid 80’s when she finally got her due and became the star she was supposed to be.
Singing Behind the Scenes
Tolling under the oppressive thumb of 60’s music producer Phil Spector and his Wall of Sound hit after hit machine, the only star or producer who ever allowed her complete freedom as a backup singer, Love told me, was, believe or not, Elvis Presley who hired her for one of his late career television specials.
