This story is part of the October 20 edition of Sunday Life. See all 12 stories . Annie Clark aka St Vincent is a musician best known for her Grammy-winning album, Daddy’s Home.
Here, the 24-year-old shares how her stepdad supported her music endeavour, the theatre teacher who introduced her to the stage and how she became good friends with Dave Grohl. Those supermodels didn’t look like LA girls who could afford nose jobs – they looked like aliens. I was like, “Wow! That’s a person?” Credit: Alex Da Corte My maternal grandfather was born in Texas and died when my mom was 20.
She pretty much raised herself after that as she also lost her mother at this time. I didn’t know much about him, but through my mom learned that my grandfather played the clarinet and could play the piano with his feet as a party trick. My stepdad Roy played a pivotal role in my life.
Mom married him when I was seven, and he moved in with us with I was eight. Roy worked as an engineer and then became an accountant. He didn’t know anything about music really, but was supportive of my decision to pursue it.
He could see I was obsessed and drove me to the local guitar store when I was 12 to buy my first instrument. My dad [who split from her mother when Annie was three] is the one who introduced me to Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, the Rolling Stones and Steely Dan – all the music of his youth. He was, and still is, into physical fitness.
He was an athlete in college. The main things I remember .
