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Childs' mother was, and remains, a staunch member of Assemblies of God, and her maternal grandparents were both Assemblies missionaries. Childs and her three brothers "weren't allowed to listen to pop music or rock or even go to the movies. There was a lot I missed out on." There...
It is a familiar case history of rebelliousness -- hard scuffles, bad drugs, determined excess and scrapping to sing -- but Childs played it faster and tougher than most. At 20, trying to keep a band together, she got busted on a drug rap and did three months in a federal penitentiary...
Childs' collaborator in much of the writing and production of the album was David Ricketts, who with David Baerwald created one of the seminal albums of the '80s, 1986's Boomtown. Ricketts and Childs lived together and worked together, and Union has much to do with their affair. Childs signed...
Perhaps that is a good thing for the rest of us. The record has the shock of sudden intimacy and of irrevocable disruption, in great part because Childs often found herself singing Ricketts-inspired songs straight across the control room to the inspiration himself. Ricketts provided bass, guitar and synthesizer...
Union took three years to get right. Childs waited out anxious months for Ricketts' continued collaboration, while he worked on Boomtown. Mostly on sheer instinct, she went from Los Angeles to Swaziland and Zambia to search out a choir and found two. The Sibane Semaswati Singers and the New Generation...