“It was happening behind closed doors on the back of the tour bus. The marriage unraveled quickly, marked by substance and physical abuse. “I was so lonely and broken and desperate for love that I was reaching out for anything.” Then the day before the 2016 Grammy’s, King secretly eloped with a man she had met in London three weeks before. “I was struggling with mental health issues and exhaustion and literally felt like I was losing my mind,” she says. Though King’s hard work was paying off professionally, personally, she was falling apart. I’d play a show, take a red-eye, wake up, do a morning show, and never cancel a performance.” I was staying up later than everybody else and still getting up earlier than everybody else. She has Adele’s determination and Joan Jett’s stomp, Brenda Lee’s high-voiced bite, and some AC/DC shriek.”įor three years, King worked tirelessly to promote Love Stuff, performing on every morning and late-night talk show and touring the world, during which time she says, “I partied harder than anybody and their brother and their brother’s cousin. (“Whenever I was having a bad day, I’d watch videos people sent me of their kids singing along to my song,” she says.) King earned critical accolades - The New York Times described the Ohio-born, New York-raised artist as “a sassy, hard-drinking, love-’em-and-leave-’em hellion with bad tattoos and a broad pedigree across rock, pop, and country. 1 Country Airplay hit “Different For Girls” (she performed it with Bentley at the CMA Awards and took home an award for “Musical Event of the Year”), and seeing “Ex’s & Oh’s” featured on Kidz Bop. Other career highlights included performing for President Obama at the 2016 Kennedy Center Honors, being featured on Dierks Bentley’s Grammy-nominated No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs Chart, and topped the AAA, Hot AC, and Alternative Radio charts, leading King to become the second female artist in 18 years to reach No. The track, about leaving behind a string of brokenhearted exes, hit No. Love Stuff - a sultry mix of rock and roll, blues, and country, with a twinge of pop - featured the breakthrough single “Ex’s & Oh’s,” which earned her two Grammy nominations and was certified double platinum. Over the past few years, King seemed to be leading the charmed life of a rising star. It’s like when you see somebody who is struggling, what do you want to do? You want to shake them! Putting this record out is like shaking myself awake.” But making this album not only changed my life, it saved my life. I decided to call it Shake The Spirit because I was shaken to the core over the last year and half.
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