Brandi Carlile And Catherine Shepherd Have Been Married Since 2012 And Share Two Kids
Brandi Carlile and Catherine Shepherd have been going strong for over a decade.
The Grammy-winning artist and social activist met her wife over the phone in 2009, when Shepherd was working for Beatles singer Paul McCartney‘s charity. The pair met in person in 2010 and tied the knot two years later with three separate wedding ceremonies. In between walking red carpets and attending charity events together, the pair welcomed two children, daughters Evangeline Ruth and Elijah.
“I made peace with knowing that there was some pioneering involved in what we were doing, to the point where there wasn’t even a two mother template on a birth certificate yet,” Carlile told PEOPLE in 2021 of the couple’s journey to parenthood through IVF.
Now, more than 10 years later, Carlile and Shepherd’s relationship is still going strong. “She’s my best friend,” Carlile told Howard Stern in 2021. “Absolute best friend, and arch-rival, and the person that I love to be around the most, and the person I hate to leave a room, and the person I argue with late into the night.”
From striking up a friendship over the phone to welcoming two kids, here’s a complete timeline of Brandi Carlile and Catherine Shepherd’s relationship.
The Beatles And The British Invasion
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“They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid. You could only do that with other musicians. Even if you’re playing your own chords you had to have other people playing with you. That was obvious. And it started me thinking about other people.”
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Beginning in 1964 and lasting until roughly 1966, a wave of British groups, including , , , , , and amongst others, dominated the U.S. music charts. These groups were all heavily influenced by American , , and musical genres they had been introduced to via homegrown British rock ‘n’ roll singers, imported American , and the music of the craze. These UK groups, known collectively as the , reintroduced American youth culture to the broad potential of rock and as a creative medium and to the wealth of musical culture to be found within the United States.
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Catherine Shepherd And Brandi Carlile Meet In Person
Despite having spent an entire year making long-distance phone calls, Carlile was surprised when she finally met Shepherd in person in New York City in 2010.
“It was shocking to say the least,” Carlile told PEOPLE in 2021. “Every time I talked to her over the phone, I thought I was talking to somebody who was like 65 years old. I don’t know why. I think because of her wisdom and her demeanor. Or maybe I thought she was Paul’s age or something. So we met backstage in New York, and we were both like 27.”
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Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew That Wasnt Me Was Our Let It Be
This is the year of Brandi Carlile. Her new CD, Bear Creek, opened high on the music charts. Her tour is a nightly revelation. She just got engaged. Its been a long time since she sold some of her guitars to buy microphones for The Twins, Tim and Phil Hanseroth, the guitarists who stand lean and tall behind her on stage.
Brandi Carlile has a powerful voice shes up there with Janis Joplin and Melissa Etheridge but shes just as powerful when the tempo slows and the lyrics turn intimate. On the Bear Creek CD, theres a song like that: That Wasnt Me. Its about addiction and recovery, about not being as bad as you are on your worst day, about acceptance.
To hear That Wasnt Me is to be marked by it the song haunts you. Im far from the only one who feels that way, and who wants to know more about the song and its author. And you know how it is: ask one question and, before you know it, youve asked fifteen.
Jesse Kornbluth: Lots to love on the new CD, but when I wrote about Bear Creek, the song that jumped out at me and pretty much everyone whos heard it is That Wasnt Me hard not to have a good cry over it. So lets start there. When you write a song like That Wasnt Me, are you in command of the process, or are you channeling?
JK: When you write a song like that, do you immediately know what youve got?
JK: Have you always had this access to gut feeling? Or was there a catalytic moment that triggered this ability to write what we feel?