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    In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music
    In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music
    In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music
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    In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music

    By Liona Boyd

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    Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world’s most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million.

    Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world’s most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million. The internationally acclaimed classical guitarist has crossed numerous boundaries, both musically and romantically.

    In this colourful memoir covering her life up to 1998, she serves up a rich and fascinating mix: childhood with her progressive parents in England, Canada, and Mexico, exacting music studies in Toronto, down-and-out years in London and Paris, her eight-year romance with Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, drug experimentation in a Mexican artists’ colony, and whirlwind trips around the globe to eminent concert stages.

    It all makes for a rousing, feisty, passionate tale, as compelling and entrancing as the music of her Ramírez guitar.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateAug 19, 2017
    ISBN9781459739963
    In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music
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    Liona Boyd

    Liona Boyd, known around the world as “The First Lady of the Guitar,” has released twenty-eight albums, spanning a wide range of styles, many of which have gone gold and platinum. She has been awarded the Order of Canada, has been inducted into the Guitar Gallery of Greats, and won five Juno awards. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.

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