Nellie McKay-Normal As Vegan Blueberry Pie: Doris Day Tribute
Written by Vegetarian Star on October 15th, 2009 in Animal Issues, Female Musicians, Female Singers.
Nellie McKay released a new album this week, Normal as Blueberry Pie: A tribute to Doris Day.
Nellie first became acquainted with the musical legend while participating in an animal rights protest, of all places.
“I was at a protest outside the aquarium in Maryland, and there was a music shop there and I picked up, just because I liked the cover, a CD of hers called It’s Magic, which had a lot of her early work for Warner Bros., and I listened to it all the way on the bus ride home,” Nellie told Vanity Fair.
“Yeah. I really love Baltimore, and it’s so sad that the harbor there is defined by the aquarium. Aquariums—it’s not the wild. They’re a business and they can’t help being a business; anything you’re going to build is not going to be the ocean.”
Nellie was elated to find out the singer she looked up to championed animal rights as well, as Doris founded the Doris Day Animal League.
“You know, I hadn’t known [anything] about her except she always looked happy in her pictures. She was one like Julie Christie or Mary Tyler Moore that I read had become involved in animal-welfare work—it does make you like people more. Becoming politically involved can alienate people but then it can make people dig you all the more. It’s like if you go to a Sean Penn movie and you think, Well, it’s not the greatest movie but I like his politics.”
Read the entire interview with Nellie at vanityfair.com.
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October 16th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Nellie McKay is truly a unique and talented musician with a heart as beautiful as her face. Love her voice, her passion, her personality-all of it!