Libby Roderick

Libby Roderick

Infobox musical artist
Name = Libby Roderick



Img_capt = Libby Roderick as a guest on a Portland, Maine radio station.
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Elizabeth Roderick
Born = ca. 1958
Died =
Origin = Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.
Instrument = singing, guitar
Genre = folk
Occupation = Singer, songwriter
Years_active = 1985 - present
Label = Turtle Island Records
URL = [http://www.libbyroderick.com/ www.libbyroderick.com]

Libby Roderick is an American singer/songwriter, recording artist, poet, activist, and teacher. The global impact of her song "How Could Anyone" has been featured on CNN, in Readers Digest, and in the Associated Press. She was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska where she still lives part of the time. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in American Studies, and has worked as a TV and print news reporter, radio consultant, nuclear weapons educator and writer on Alaska Native issues. She is best known for her healing anthem "How Could Anyone": "How could anyone ever tell you, you were anything less than beautiful? How could anyone ever tell you, you were less than whole? How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a miracle? How deeply you're connected to my soul."

Discography

tudio albums

* "If You See a Dream" (Turtle Island Records, 1990)
* "Thinking Like a Mountain" (Turtle Island Records, 1991)
* "If the World Were My Lover" (Turtle Island Records, 1993)
* "Lay it All Down" (Turtle Island Records, 1997)
* "A Meditation for Healing" (Turtle Island Records, 1998)
* "How Could Anyone" (Turtle Island Records, 2005)

Compilations

* "How Could Anyone" (2005)

Compilations featuring Libby Roderick songs

* "One Land, One Heart" (Musicians United to Sustain the Environment, 1999).:Includes "Low to the Ground" from "Thinking Like a Mountain" (1991). Other participants: Greg Wagner, Magpie, Susan Grace, Dakota Sid Clifford, Karen Goldberg, David Elias, Alice DiMicele, John McCutcheon, Lydia Adams Davis, Peter Berryman & Lou Berryman, Joanne Rand, Dana Lyons, Walkin' Jim Stoltz, Paul Winter

ongbook

* 1994. "When I Hear Music". Anchorage, AK: Turtle Island Records. Lyrics, music, and guitar chords for songs from "If You See A Dream" (1990) and "Thinking Like A Mountain" (1991).

Writings

* 1985. "Alaska Women's History Resource Booklet". Anchorage, AK: Western Media Concepts. Produced by the Alaska Women's History Project.
* 1999. [http://www.libbyroderick.com/thisholyearth.html "This Holy Earth."] In "Prayers for a Thousand Years". Ed. by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, pp. 192–193.
* 2001. [http://www.libbyroderick.com/anothercountry.html "Another Country."] In "Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony". Ed by Hank Lentfer and Carolyn Servid. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, pp. 64–65.

External links

* [http://www.libbyroderick.com/ www.libbyroderick.com] (official website)*

Persondata
NAME= Roderick, Libby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Roderick, Elizabeth
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Singer, songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH= ca. 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH= Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=


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