Haela Hunt-Hendrix

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Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix
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Hunt-Hendrix at the Moers Festival 2022
Background information
Born (1985-01-25) January 25, 1985 (age 39) [1]
OriginNew York City, U.S.
Genres Black metal, avant-garde metal, experimental rock, classical music
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Guitar, vocals
Member of Liturgy
Website liturgy.bandcamp.com
Relatives Helen LaKelly Hunt (mother)
Harville Hendrix (father)
Leah Hunt-Hendrix (sister)
H. L. Hunt (grandfather)
Lamar Hunt (uncle)
Clark Hunt (cousin)

Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix (born January 25, 1985), also known as HHH, is an American musician and composer. She is best known for her work as creator, lead singer, and guitarist of experimental black metal band Liturgy. [2]

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Personal life

Hunt-Hendrix was born in 1985 in New York City, [1] the child of academician Helen LaKelly Hunt and self-help author Harville Hendrix. [3] [4] She is a member of the Hunt oil/football family which includes her billionaire grandfather oil tycoon H. L., her uncle Lamar, and her cousin Clark. [4] Hunt-Hendrix grew up in New Mexico, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York. [5]

In May 2020, Hunt-Hendrix came out as transgender in an Instagram post, writing, "The love I have to give is a woman's love, if only because it is mine. To varying degrees many already understand this, but I'd like to make a clear statement about my actual gender." [6]

Career

In 2005, Hunt-Hendrix formed what would become her most well-known music project, Liturgy, as a solo project while attending Columbia University in New York City. [1]

In the same year, Hunt-Hendrix’s screamo side project Birthday Boyz released their debut album The Bro Cycle. Following this, Hunt-Hendrix collaborated with Krallice guitarist Collin Marston and former Birthday Boyz bandmates Greg Smith and Jeff Bobula to form the band Survival, who would later release their eponymous debut in 2013. [7]

In 2008, Hunt-Hendrix released the EP Immortal Life under the Liturgy name, and the band cohered as a quartet with Bernard Gann (guitar), Greg Fox (drums), and Tyler Dusenbury (bass). Liturgy released their first full-length record, Renihilation , in 2009. Liturgy's second and third albums, Aesthethica (2011) and The Ark Work (2015), were released with Thrill Jockey Records. Despite the critical success of Aesthetica, [8] Hunt-Hendrix stated in an interview with Pitchfork that "I was never happy with any other Liturgy release. I didn’t want to release them. But the aim with this one (The Ark Work) was to take that musical vibe and execute it all the way—and I love it." [5]

In 2016 Hunt-Hendrix released an electronic album titled New Introductory Lectures on the System of Transcendental Qabala under the band name Kel Valhaal. [9] Hunt-Hendrix describes the release as combining elements of classical music, electronic music, rap, and metal, [10] as well as working "to activate transcendental catharsis using the elements of sound design." [11]

In November 2019, Liturgy debuted their fourth studio album,  H.A.Q.Q . The album features a new lineup, with original members Hunt-Hendrix and Gann joined by Tia Vincent-Clark (bass) and Leo Didkovsky (drums). [12]

On November 20, 2020, Liturgy released their fifth full-length studio album, the "cosmogonical opera-album" Origin of the Alimonies ; with the release came the announcement of an accompanying operatic film written, shot, edited by, and starring Hunt-Hendrix. [13] [14] Hunt-Hendrix debuted an earlier version of the video opera at National Sawdust in October 2018. [15]  

On March 24, 2023, Hunt-Hendrix as Liturgy released their sixth studio album, 93696 .

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