Libby Roderick

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Libby Roderick
Libby Roderick as a guest on a Portland, Maine radio station.
Libby Roderick as a guest on a Portland, Maine radio station.
Background information
Birth name Elizabeth Roderick
Born ca. 1958
Origin Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.
Genre(s) folk
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter
Instrument(s) singing, guitar
Years active 1985 - present
Label(s) Turtle Island Records
Website 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."

Contents

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio 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)

[edit] Compilations

  • How Could Anyone (2005)

[edit] 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

[edit] Songbook

  • 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).

[edit] Writings

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

[edit] External links

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Libby Roderick
Albums
If You See a Dream • Thinking Like a Mountain • If the World Were My Lover • Lay it All Down • A Meditation for Healing
Compilations
How Could Anyone
Related articles
Discography


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