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LIFE LESSONS

LZZY HALE

The Halestorm icon talks discovering music through Hanson, Devil worship, and how she’d love to make the jump to the big screen WORDS: DANNII LEIVERS
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WHEN WE CATCH up with Lzzy Hale, she’s sitting in her closet. “I’m adulting and I don’t like it,” the Halestorm vocalist and guitarist tells us, midway through house renovations and surrounded by leather jackets and stage outfits, although it’s an apt setting for us to look back on her life.

Since founding the band with her brother, drummer Arejay, in 1997 aged just 13, she’s led Halestorm through a series of changes and leaps of faith that have turned them into one of the biggest bands in hard rock, and Lzzy into an empowering modern icon. This is what she’s learned along the way.

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