THE CHOIR GIRL FROM NEWARK: The Voice That Sold 200 Million Records — A Graphic Biography
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Newark, 1974. A choir director tells her eleven-year-old daughter she will sing the Sunday solo. Alone.The walk from the back of that church to the front is forty feet. It is the longest walk of the girl's life.Twenty-five years on, she holds seven consecutive number one singles — a record broken from the Beatles. She has sung the American national anthem to a country at war, and a hundred million people have stopped to listen. Her film soundtrack has sold forty-five million copies and still leads the world.None of it protects her.THE CHOIR GIRL FROM NEWARK tells that story across 100 pages of hand-inked black-and-white manga art — from a Baptist church in New Jersey to a stadium in Tampa, from the awards night where her own community booed her, to three concerts in a South Africa six months out of apartheid.Inside this graphic biography:- 100 pages of original black-and-white comic art in classic 1990s manga style- Six chapters, 1963 to 2012, told in order- Documented quotes marked apart from dramatized dialogue- Full timeline and source notes- For readers 14 and upShe was called The Voice.This is where it came from, what it gave her, and what it took back. Read more
