About A Girl
Bringing women out from the shadows of music history. Familiar characters, new perspectives.
Queen Latifah: From Princess of the Posse to Queen of the Rap Scene
Before there was Queen Latifah the actress, there was Queen Latifah the hip-hop star. She ascended to royal status in rap at a time when the genre …
Kelis: Musical Kaleidoscopes, Culinary Feasts, Nas, and Moving On
Kelis’s musical light was undeniable from the start, but it was still a struggle to shine as brightly as knew she could. She did get there, but …
Shirley Collie Nelson: In and Out of Harmony with Willie Nelson
Shirley Collie helped launch Willie Nelson’s solo career back before the name “Willie Nelson” meant anything to anyone. As a guitarist and singer who …
Eudoxie Mbouguiengue: Africa to Atlanta, Ludacris, and Advocating for the Abused
Eudoxie thought she was escaping torment and horror when she emigrated from Gabon to the United States as a young girl. But even through her marriage …
Shante Broadus: Snoop, Reconciliation, and Becoming the Boss Lady
Shante Broadus steered her husband Snoop Dogg from hapless criminal to cultural icon long before she established herself as his official manager. The …
Beyoncé: Destiny's Child, Jay-Z, Fidelity and Feminism
Few musicians are as inescapable as the Beyoncé. But even if you’ve kept up with her immeasurable press coverage and airplay over the decades, this story reveals the things you don’t know …
Victoria Mary Clarke: Shane MacGowan, Kurt and Courtney, and the Angels in Disguise
Victoria Mary Clarke was shocked to find herself in love with legendary Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, incurring the sprawling wrath of the Cobains, and sinking into depression before …
Kim Gordon: Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, and New York Kool
Kim Gordon, the soft-spoken, hard-edged heroine of the 1980s New York City underground became a beloved icon of the 1990s alternative rock boom. Her marriage with her Sonic Youth bandmate …
Tashera Simmons: DMX, 'X,' and the Battle for Earl Simmons
Tashera loved Earl Simmons from the moment she first saw him when they were kids. They reconnected as adults, but Earl’s transformation into DMX and, …
Marjorie Guthrie: Woody Guthrie, Martha Graham, Loss and True Love
Marjorie was the right hand of dance icon Martha Graham when she met Woody Guthrie. She took loving care of both as they each moved toward self-destruction, and especially of Woody, even …
Sharon Osbourne: Ozzy, Sabbath, and the Al Capone of Pop
Before she was a lightning rod television personality, Sharon Osbourne was a savvy music business operator under the tutelage of her maniacal father, the “Al Capone of Pop,” Don Arden. …
Claudia Lennear: Bowie, "Brown Sugar," and Black Womanhood in Rock and Roll
Claudia Lennear’s affair with Mick Jagger led to her dubious distinction as an inspiration for the Rolling Stones’ classic “Brown Sugar,” but her …
Introducing About A Girl Season 4 (Trailer)
About A Girl returns November 16th for a fourth season! Host Nikki Lynette brings to life 12 new stories of heartbreak and hope, detailing the lives of extraordinary women who have each …
Mary Ford and Les Paul
Mary Ford did more for Les Paul’s career than most people know or care to admit. Before she met Les for a radio audition, Mary already had …
Linda Keith & Jimi Hendrix
Linda Keith was so determined to make Jimi Hendrix a star that she dumped Keith Richards. She got Hendrix a manager and a record deal, but then felt compelled to let him go, even if he was …
Britt Ekland and Rod Stewart
Britt Eckland became famous first as the wife of comic genius Peter Sellers, whose troubled and unstable inner life eventually drove her away. Then she became a Bond girl and international …
Gail Zappa & Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa ruled his kingdom of freaks, a prolific and obsessed man with many plans. But Gail was undeniably the woman behind the man, a role to …
Teena Marie & Rick James
With a guitar slung over her shoulder, Teena Marie walked into downtown LA and came out with a contract with Motown, where funk master Rick James was …
Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz
A simple story about two people falling in love and then growing apart, except one of them was trying to navigate being extremely famous and under the oppressive thumb of Bill Cosby, while …
Rita Coolidge & Kris Kristofferson
Rita Coolidge soared as a singer and songwriter, working with Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Bobby Womack, and Booker T. Jones. She was …
Valerie Bertinelli & Eddie Van Halen
America’s girl next door meets the leader of America’s wildest rock band. As Valerie Bertinelli struggles with her career as an actress, Eddie Van Halen and his band skyrocket to success, …
Jenny Boyd & Mick Fleetwood
One of the ‘IT’ girls of Swinging London reconnects with her high school classmate, a talented drummer, striving to succeed. But his all-consuming …
Carolyn Dennis & Bob Dylan
The gospel-fed daughter of one of Ray Charles’s Raelettes had no idea who this Bob Dylan character was when she was called to audition for his band. …
Anita Pallenberg & Keith Richards
A heat-seeking young beauty rockets through Europe, ricocheting off Fellini, Warhol, & Nico, before landing with Brian Jones of the Rolling …
Carrie Snodgress & Neil Young
Carrie Snodgress turned her back on Hollywood so fast that she didn't even attend the Academy Awards when she was nominated for Best Actress. Her …
Introducing About A Girl Season 3
Host Nikki Lynette returns on May 16th to bring you 12 fascinating and dramatic stories of women whose pivotal roles in music history and pop culture …
Linda & Paul McCartney
Linda Eastman was born a free spirit, but she was also the daughter of a strict and demanding father, a poor Jewish boy who became a wealthy lawyer and rebranded himself as a WASP. Linda …
Rachel Humphreys & Lou Reed
Lou Reed was fascinated and inspired by all kinds of real people who existed on the edges of society — junkies, street hustlers, gender non-conformists — but he fell in love with trans …
Tammy Wynette & George Jones
When Tammy Wynette was a young girl, she dreamed of singing with George Jones at the Grand Ole Opry. Her single-minded drive to be a star brought her to the top and to George Jones, and …
Vivian & Johnny Cash
Long before June Carter came along, there was Vivian. Johnny Cash and Viv were deeply in love, and had four daughters together, before... well, you probably know the rest. But you might not …
Betty & Miles Davis
A songwriter and singer so erotic, raw, and ahead of her time that no one was ready for her. An earthquaking icon of feminism and Black power during a time when it was unheard of for a …
Norma Tanega & Dusty Springfield
Norma Tanega was a soulful American Latina artist, a one-hit wonder who never wanted stardom, but who fell in love with Dusty Springfield, the Queen …
Janis & Marvin Gaye
Behind Marvin Gaye's incredibly smooth, affable exterior was a soul tortured by the abuse he suffered as a child, insecurity, and paranoia. Like many …
Meg & Jack White
The White Stripes. Jack and his sister Meg. His wife Meg. His ex-wife Meg. The non-musician who became a rock star. The unassuming, pretty, porcelain-complexioned woman who evoked thunder …
Deborah Santana & Sly Stone & Carlos Santana
The daughter of a blues pioneer falls in love with two brilliant musicians. Sly Stone takes her out of her quiet life, but almost drags her into the dark world of his own demons. Then she …
Faith Evans & The Notorious B.I.G.
Faith Evans met and married Christopher Wallace in 1994. Within a year, they both became stars. The new marriage suffered under their grueling work …
Marianne Faithfull & Mick Jagger
A beautiful English girl drifts into pop stardom and the inner circle of the Rolling Stones in 1960s London. As the girlfriend of Stones frontman …
Mayte Garcia & Prince
Mayte Garcia, a young dancer from Puerto Rico, meets Prince and slowly becomes immersed in his extraordinary world. Their collaboration becomes a …
About A Girl Season 2 Preview With Nikki Lynette
About A Girl returns on June 7th with twelve new episodes about women who have played crucial roles in music history, but whose fascinating personal …
Introducing About A Girl Season 2
About A Girl is back with 12 new stories about women who have played crucial roles in music history, but whose fascinating personal stories have been …
Introducing 27 Club Season 3
Listen to Season 3 of the 27 Club to hear the insane details behind the life of one of rock's greatest icons — Janis Joplin. From her roots as a …
Brooke Shields & Michael Jackson — Girlfriend
Brooke Shields was a young star who had her first taste of massive fame — and controversy — with the film Pretty Baby, in which she’d played a child prostitute. Michael Jackson, youngest of …
Kidada Jones and Tupac Shakur — All About U
Los Angeles, the mid 1990s. Tupac Shakur is one of the biggest emcees in the world, a lyric poet of a rapper. Kidada Jones is the daughter of music legend Quincy Jones. With her mother …
Robyn Crawford & Whitney Houston — Didn’t We Almost Have It All
Robyn Crawford met Whitney Houston when they were both just teenagers. From the moment their eyes met, Robyn was drawn in by Whitney’s warmth and beauty — and when she heard her sing, Robyn …
Donna Ludwig & Ritchie Valens — Donna
Los Angeles, 1957. In the time of drive-in movies and sock hops, high school student Donna Ludwig liked to sneak out of the house to have fun with …
Audrey & Hank Williams — Lovesick Blues
In rural Alabama circa World War II, a farm girl named Audrey Mae Sheppard was at the tail end of a series of bad decisions. An ill-fated marriage and a pregnancy made her a single mother …
Priscilla & Elvis Presley — It’s Now Or Never
In 1959, an American teenager named Priscilla Beaulieu, daughter of an Air Force officer, was living in West Germany. Lonely and bored, she was …
Rita & Bob Marley — Is This Love
In 1962, the Caribbean island of Jamaica gained independence from Great Britain, and the fledgling nation yearned to establish an identity of its own. Two years later, Rita Anderson was a …
Jane Asher & Paul McCartney — Yesterday
By the time she was seventeen, London actress Jane Asher had already made a name for herself, onstage, in films, and in 1963 as a panelist on the …
Peggy Lipton & Quincy Jones — In The Heat of the Night
In the early 1970s, actress Peggy Lipton was at a crossroads. She was the beautiful star of The Mod Squad, admired by girls and desired by men. And …
Mary Austin & Freddie Mercury — Love Of My Life
Mary Austin, shopgirl. Farrokh Bulsara, art student. They formed a bond that didn’t have a name and couldn’t be defined. Even as he metamorphosed …
Pamela Courson & Jim Morrison — Love Street
In the mid-1960s, Los Angeles was a mecca of American music, and it was where Pamela Courson decided she wanted to be, escaping her suffocating conservative community in nearby Orange …
Angie & David Bowie — The Prettiest Star
In the summer of 1969, people all over the world were gripped by space fever in the wake of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, which would successfully land …
Introducing About A Girl
About A Girl is a new podcast about the influential women behind the musical legends - women who inspired, supported, and challenged icons like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, and Bob Marley …
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