Biography
Heather Eatman spent her childhood in a household steeped in theater, as her father staged productions at colleges across Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. From that environment she cultivated a deep admiration for the tragic, weary, and unforgettable women who populate Tennessee Williams’s plays. She has noted that her involvement in theater eased her shyness by showing her how to build an imagined realm through song and to shape the impression she made once she stepped into the spotlight. At age seventeen she relocated to Manhattan to enroll at the Parsons School of Design, where she soon began appearing at local bars and clubs. That same theatrical sensibility shapes her lean acoustic compositions, many of which portray female figures reminiscent of Williams—women marked and hardened by experience. Her recorded output includes the 1995 release Mascara Falls on John Prine’s Oh Boy label, the self-produced and widely praised Candy and Dirt from 1999, and Real, which Eminent Records issued in 2001.
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