"To have lost her at the hands of a crazy man with a gun made it unacceptable. She was my best friend from the time I can remember anything, and to lose her at all would have broken my heart. "It was very painful to write, but she was such an important part of my life," the singer says now. This hugely distressing episode is mentioned in the epilogue of Coolidge's book, which she dedicates to her sister. She's still performing and is currently on a UK tour.īut the most agonising time of her life happened less than two years ago, when her beloved older sister, Priscilla, also a singer, was murdered at her home by her husband Michael Seibert (66), who then turned the gun on himself. All these stories - along with her widely reported claims that she penned part of Clapton's hit Layla, but received no credit - are charted in her memoir Delta Lady, from her childhood in Lafayette, Tennessee, to becoming one of the most sought-after vocalists in Los Angeles in the Seventies. Anywhere), plus a string of hits - and heartbreak, often fuelled by the men she hooked up with and a torrid six-year marriage to the love of her life, Kris Kristofferson, doomed to disaster as he womanised and battled booze.
It has been a life of triumphs - including two Grammy awards, a multi-platinum album (Anytime. Rita Coolidge, daughter of a Cherokee Baptist minister and Cherokee-Scottish mother, was catapulted into the music industry in the late-Sixties during a time of huge creativity, becoming one of the most sought-after backing singers in the business, touring and recording with Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and Crosby, Stills & Nash, among others.
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