Haim | Woman of the Year 2022
25.10.2022 - 18:09
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Photography by In Conversation with It’s been nearly a decade since sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim released their debut album, Days Are Gone, and the world fell a little bit in love with three actual Jewish Valley Girls from Los Angeles. “We were babies,” says Alana, who, the youngest at 21, was barely able to order a legal drink at the band’s first shows.Reminiscing about their start is the only moment the three become slightly contemplative during their hour-long Zoom with friend turned interviewer Maya Rudolph.
Otherwise, it’s all energy, all the time, from three of this era’s most beloved rock stars. write and produce all of their songs, command stadiums filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans, bang on drums so hard it’s reasonable to be concerned about limbs falling off, and pull off guitar riffs that feel straight out of the 1970s.
Critics have called their albums “perfect.” Their signature touring uniform is leather pants topped off with bralettes, because why not?The sisters coordinate and collaborate in all things, but they’re adamant that they are not the Brady Bunch. (They bicker! They’re human!) Still, protecting and supporting each other are values that have been ingrained in them since birth.
Before Radio City Music Hall, before working with Stevie Nicks and Taylor Swift, it was Mordechai and Donna Haim who fostered their love of music—and taught them to band together in the literal sense. The sisters grew up around Donna’s vintage Yamaha guitars and Mordechai’s drum set; the soundtrack to car rides was ’70s rock.
Washing dishes took place over disco. In the late ’90s, all five performed as Rockinhaim before the sisters went solo.Since Days Are Gone, *has put out two additional studio
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