"We'd been inseparable since we were little, when Priscilla told me she'd been waiting for me to be born." I don't know why that led to his murdering my sister. I knew that, financially, they were unstable. I always felt he was a conman because he always had these big business deals that were going to come through, and sometimes they did and financially they'd be in great shape, and then the bottom would fall out and nothing would be happening. "I didn't think he was crazy, but I didn't like him at all. She suspected that things weren't right at her sister's home. I couldn't breathe, but I got through it with the support of my family and friends." "I put one foot in front of the other for days. I became the head of the family and had so many things to take care of to honour her and make sure all the arrangements were done, and I made the arrangements for her husband as well, because that's what she would have wanted. "I had so much to do, because I became the matriarch of the family at that point, as Priscilla had been after my mother died. "Some time after we'd spoken on her birthday, her husband killed my beautiful, brave Priscilla with a handgun and then – as it is inevitably phrased in newspaper accounts of murder-sucides – turned the weapon on himself," she writes.Ĭoping wasn't easy. It took me so long to be able to accept the fact she was not going to be calling me."Ĭoolidge (71) recalls phoning her sister on her 73rd birthday – the last time they spoke, and the day before Priscilla was found dead. "To have lost her at the hands of a crazy man with a gun made it unacceptable. She was my best friend from the time I can remember anything, and to lose her at all would have broken my heart. "It was very painful to write, but she was such an important part of my life," she says now. This hugely distressing episode is mentioned in the epilogue of Coolidge's book, which she dedicates to her sister. She's still performing, finishing off a tour of Britain and Ireland with concerts in Dublin and Cork this week.īut the most agonising time of her life happened less than two years ago, when her beloved older sister Priscilla, also a singer, was murdered at her home by her husband Michael Seibert (66) who then killed himself.
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It has been a life of triumphs – including two Grammy awards, a multi-platinum album ( Anytime.Anywhere) plus a string of hits – and heartbreak, often fuelled by the men she hooked up with and a torrid six-year marriage to the love of her life Kris Kristofferson, doomed to disaster as he womanised and battled booze.Īll these stories – along with her widely reported claims that she penned part of Clapton's hit Layla but received no credit – are charted in her memoir Delta Lady, from her childhood in Lafayette, Tennessee, to becoming one of the most sought-after vocalists in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Rita Coolidge, daughter of a Cherokee Baptist minister and Cherokee-Scottish mother, was catapulted into the music industry in the late 60s during a time of huge creativity, becoming one of the most sought-after backing singers in the business, touring and recording with Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and Crosby, Stills & Nash, among others, and going on to forge a successful solo career. SHE was the original 'Delta Lady', the Cherokee singer with long dark hair, chunky-buckled belts, leather trousers and Native American jewellery.
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