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Judith Lynne Sill (October 7, 1944 – November 23, 1979) was an American singer and songwriter. The first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum label, she released two albums, then worked briefly as a cartoonist〔()〕 before dying of drug abuse in 1979.〔 〕 Her eponymous debut album was released in late 1971 and was followed around eighteen months later by ''Heart Food''. She also recorded demos for a third album in 1974, which were released with other rarities on the 2005 two-disc collection ''Dreams Come True''. Sill was heavily influenced by Bach's metric forms and suites, while lyrically her work drew substantially on Christian themes of rapture and redemption. ==Biography== Judee Sill spent much of her adolescence in the Oakland area. Her father, Milford "Bun" Sill, an importer of exotic animals for use in films, owned a bar, which is where Sill spent a lot of her childhood and learned to play the piano.〔 When her father died of pneumonia in 1952, her mother moved Judee and her brother Dennis to Los Angeles, where the former Mrs. Sill took up and married ''Tom and Jerry'' animator Kenneth Muse〔 in 1952. After her mother died in 1963, Sill moved from high school to high school. She developed a drug habit which she supported by committing crime. She managed to rob a few liquor stores before getting caught at a gas station and sent for a brief stint at a reform school in Ventura.〔 After leaving the reform school, where a spell as a church organist taught her many of the gospel licks that would later surface in her music, Sill attempted a return to collegiate studies and took a job working long hours in a piano bar. She started doing LSD and promptly moved in with an LSD dealer and began exploring some of the psychedelic depths that would inform her later lyrical leanings. She and a friend rented a house from the dealer and formed a jazz trio with a third girl.〔 On April 27, 1966, Sill married pianist Robert Maurice "Bob" Harris in Clark County, Nevada. Within months both had succumbed to crippling heroin addictions and made their way as musicians in Las Vegas for a time. When she moved back to California, she resorted to prostitution for a spell to support her massive habit. A string of narcotics and forgery offenses sent her to jail. When she got out, she immediately set to work as a song composer.〔 Sill encountered Graham Nash and David Crosby and toured with them for a time as their opening act. After some initial interest from Atlantic Records, David Geffen offered her a contract with his new Asylum label. She sold her song "Lady-O" to the Turtles. She was featured on the cover of ''Rolling Stone''. Harris worked on her first album and was also involved with the Turtles〔 (which led to his short stint as keyboardist with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention in 1971). Graham Nash produced the first single for her first album, "Jesus was a Cross Maker", which was released to radio on October 1, 1971. The album ''Judee Sill'' soon followed in October 1971. The album featured Sill's voice in multiple overdubs, often in a four-part chorale or fugue. She worked with engineer Henry Lewy, noted for his work with Joni Mitchell throughout the 1970s. Sill recorded her second and last album, ''Heart Food''. Sill took over orchestrating and arranging ''Heart Food'', which included "The Donor". Following a series of car accidents and failed surgery to rectify a painful back injury, Sill struggled with drug addiction and dropped out of the music scene, finally dying of a drug overdose, or "acute cocaine and codeine intoxication," on November 23, 1979, at her apartment on Morrison Street in North Hollywood. Sill's ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean following a ceremony organised by a few close friends at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Pacific Palisades.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15384119 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judee Sill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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