Owen elliot-kugell biography
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My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
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My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
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By Owen Elliot-Kugell
A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “Mama Cass” Elliot. A signed edition is available here.
Mama Cass, a member of the Mama & the Papas, was an independently minded, outspoken woman with a keen intellect and skarp wit who reached the heights of success in a male-dominated business and broke the mould of what it meant to be a “rock star”; a forward-thinking feminist, and, as readers learn in this deeply moving and candid memoir, a single parent who embraced motherhood from the moment Owen entered the world.
Born six weeks before the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, Owen was seven when her mom died suddenly. Growing up with her aunt and uncle in Los Angeles, she me
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All About Cass Elliot's Daughter Owen Elliot-Kugell
Owen Elliot-Kugell was just 7 years old when her mother, Mamas & the Papas singer Cass Elliot, died of a heart attack at age 32. Despite not having much time with her mother, Elliot-Kugell has since dedicated her life to ensuring Elliot’s life and musical legacy are not forgotten.
“I can’t tell you the number of people over the years who have told me how much my mother’s music and who she was affected them, and made a major difference in their lives,” Elliot-Kugell told Variety in 2022.
Elliot had a resurgence in early 2023 when her 1969 song “Make Your Own Kind of Music” went viral on TikTok. "It's the coolest thing I could possibly even conceptualize," Elliot-Kugell told Rolling Stone of hearing her mother’s röst on countless videos via the video-sharing platform. "I'm a total TikTok junkie, and I'm loving, in particular, the context that people are using the song because it's completely accurate in the who
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Cass Elliot’s Daughter Talks About the Star’s Bravery
Editor’s Note: This week, Owen Elliot-Kugell, the daughter of beloved music icon Mama Cass, publishes My Mama, Cass: A Memoir, featuring her intimate reflections on her mother’s triumphs, struggles, and ongoing impact on American culture.
To dovetail with this, we are sharing one of NextTribe’s most-read articles, with hundreds of thousands of views. It’s a poignant and fascinating piece profiling Owen Elliot-Kugel by one of our favorite writers, Sheila Weller, who has been a renowned chronicler of female singers of that era. Sheila is the author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–and the Journey of a Generation.
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From 1965 to 1968, The Mamas and The Papas, a pop singing group, turned folk-rock into the music of the barely-pre-psychedelic counterculture.With hit songs like “Go Where You Wanna Go,” “Monday, Monday,” and the super-i