Let the sunshine in...
Long hair and music – does it belong together? It seems there is a fascinating relation between the tunes of music and the soft motions of long hair. For many female musicians their hair is an additional attraction on the stage.
Aline Vallandri was a famous opera singer (1912).
Blanche Thebom, opera singer at the Met, has let
her hair grow down to the floor during the Fifties. Click here for a special
portrait!
Zsuzsa Koncz,
pop singer from Hungary in the Seventies. She always swirled her loose,
hip-length mane around on the stage.
Nicole McCloud, a rather unknown blues singer with
a knee-length mane (1985).
Crystal Gayle, the beautiful American country
singer, likes to show her floor-length mane.
For many of her fans she is
one of the most beautiful women in the world.
In the beginning of her career her
hair reached hip-length, but in the late Seventies she decided to let it grow
and so it became her trademark.
Her most beautiful photos are from
the Eighties.
Country music and long hair – those
were the days…
The floor is the limit for her hair
till now.
In the early Nineties there were
reports in magazines that her doctors asked her to cut her mane because of
frequently headaches, but she refused to do so.
Nicolette Larson, an American country singer from
the Seventies
Nicolette Larson died early in her Forties.
Parousia, a
new American group of four singing sisters from Oklahoma. They try to keep
their long hair as natural as possible. To learn more about them and their
mission, you can visit them at their website
here (2012).
Photo: Parousiaband
If you know more musicians with very long hair from your country, please write me!
