Brittany Howard: ‘I didn’t want to end up back in the trailer park’
Brittany Howard spent her childhood in a junkyard. “We were broke,” the 30-year-old explains, sitting in a bar in north London. “So my sister taught me how to have fun without money, how to use my imagination, how to make music. We made a club house, which was a car stacked on top of a car, stacked on top of a car, stacked on top of a car that didn’t have doors. We were definitely at risk of it collapsing on our tiny children’s bodies.”
A bespectacled former postal worker, Howard was last seen as the powerhouse frontwoman of the Grammy Award-winning , but now she’s releasing her debut solo album, , named after her sister. Jaime died at 13 of retinoblastoma, a rare of form of eye cancer, when Howard was eight,
