Sylvie Simmons

A respected veteran rock and roll journalist, Sylvie Simmons have been authoring music for pretty much four years when she finally stepped ahead like a performer. Simmons was created and elevated in London, and was captivated by music from early child years. She learned to try out a secondhand acoustic guitar, but an effort to execute at a college function resulted in an agonizing case of stage fright, and Simmons channeled her passions into authoring music, while she just performed and sang in the home. In her teenagers, Simmons began composing for music mags in the U.K., but grew discouraged with her projects, mainly because she was frequently hired to create about light-weight, teen-oriented pop functions as opposed to the even more intense and challenging rings she desired. In 1977, Simmons remaining London and relocated to LA, California. The move became a benefit to her profession, and she quickly landed a normal gig using the English weekly Sounds, getting their American correspondent and penning a normal column. Furthermore to covering lots of the main rock and roll and pop functions of your day, Simmons was readily available for the delivery of the L.A. glam metallic explosion, and was one of the primary to write main tales on Mötley Crüe and Weapons ‘N Roses. Simmons was also recruited as a normal contributor towards the U.K. steel newspaper Kerrang; in order not to contend with herself, she assumed an alter ego for the newspaper, using the name Laura Canyon. Simmons was also a regular contributor to maverick American rock and roll newspaper Creem, and composed a syndicated column for the Knight-Ridder information service. With time, Simmons will be released in just about any main music newspaper, including Rolling Rock, Mojo, Harp, and Blender. Simmons released her first reserve in 1995, a biography of Mötley Crüe entitled Mötley Crüe: Lewd, Crude, and Rude; she’d afterwards publish a assortment of brief stories, Too Strange for Ziggy, aswell as biographies of Neil Youthful and Serge Gainsbourg, and earn vital acclaim for 2012’s I’m Your Guy: THE LIFE SPAN of Leonard Cohen. While touring to market I’m Your Guy, Simmons brought along a ukulele, and would perform some of Cohen’s music as she talked about her publication and her subject’s songwriting. The tour eased Simmons’ shyness about performing for an market, and she started sharing music she’d created with Howe Gelb, most widely known as the first choice from the idiosyncratic Americana group Large Sand. Gelb inspired Simmons to keep composing, and in 2013 she became a member of him at Wavelab Studios in Tucson, Az for some recording sessions. The effect was Simmons’ first record, Sylvie, that was released by Light in the Attic Information in November 2014.