1. Meg Christian has spoken about being an only child, learning stringed instruments while spending a lot of time alone and later being influenced by Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio and Harry Belafonte to organize folk groups in the '60s.
11 Facts About Meg Christian
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Meg Christian graduated from the University of North Carolina with a double degree in English and music.
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Meg Christian moved to Washington, DC in 1969, where she performed in bars covering easy listening material by artists such as Joni Mitchell and Burt Bacharach.
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Meg Christian then began writing material from an explicitly political and feminist perspective.
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Meg Christian was one of the performers at the second Boston Women's Music Festival in 1977 and agreed with Holly Near, that the purpose of their music was to make women more aware of political issues.
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Meg Christian ceased giving live performances in 1984, and began studying Siddha Yoga with Gurumayi Chidvilasananda.
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Meg Christian changed her first name to Shambhavi during this time and lived in an ashram in New York.
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In 2002, Meg Christian restarted her association with Olivia Records, and began performing again for label events; her first appearance since 1984 was on a cruise ship arranged by Olivia.
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Meg Christian performed on two weeklong Caribbean cruises to celebrate Olivia's 40-year anniversary in 2013.
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Meg Christian has said that working with Olivia Records assisted her as a recovering alcoholic.
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Meg Christian noted that writing songs as a "woman-identified-woman" was not only consistent with her concept of feminism, but had developed an awareness of how music enabled emotional changes to be made without compromising her art.