Her music, too, is all words, all messages to decode, a potent mix of literary ambition and raw truth scaling the depths of her vocal register, she swings and punches and finesses phrases with smoke. Louis family “just got fed up with my grim presence… There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child.” Angelou only warms up to the idea of talking again when a woman tells her that “it takes the human voice to infuse with the shades of deeper meaning.” You can see why Fiona-having also been raped outside her home at age 12, retreating inward and taking solace in the act of writing-would find strength in this. She is sent to Arkansas to live with her grandma, never knowing if her St. “When I refused to be the child they knew and accepted me to be, I was called impudent and my muteness sullenness,” Angelou writes. After, she grows quiet she is no longer interested in games. In Angelou’s memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, first published in 1969, she describes her experience, at 8 years old, of being raped in her mother’s St. “She had brought me through some tough times and shown me a light,” Fiona once said of Angelou, who she thanks in the liner notes of Tidal’s vinyl reissue “for everything you’ve ever written.” Fiona has referred to Lennon as “God” and Maya Angelou as her “mother.” She slept with a compilation of Angelou’s writings under her pillow. She was sent to psychiatrists, which she resented once, staring at ink-blots, she made out the shape of a beetle and so proclaimed that she saw John Lennon’s face. She began on piano as an 8-year-old in Manhattan with a collection of standards called The Real Book (Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday were favorites). No surprise, then, that spirals of poetry and jazz formed Fiona. The internal rhymes hang onto one another and lift you up.
Is that why they call me a sullen girl? They don't know how I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea But he washed me ashore And he took my pearl And left an empty shell of meĮach word, like rocks tumbling into jewels, falls into the next.
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