Tia Blake

Christiana Elizabeth Wallman, more commonly known as Tia Blake (1952–2015), was an American writer and singer.

Life

Wallman was born in Columbus, Georgia, on 13 April 1952, and grew up in North Carolina.[1] In 1970 she worked for Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York for six months, before moving to Paris.[1] In Paris she recorded an album of folk songs at Ossian Studio in 1971. This was released in February 1972 by Société Française de Productions Phonographiques (SFPP) under the title Folk Songs and Ballads: Tia Blake and Her Folk-group.[1]

In 1976, Wallman recorded a number of her own original songs in the Canadian Broadcasting Company studio in Montreal, where she was then living.[1]

In 1979, she worked with Daniel Lavoie performing back vocals during the recording of the Nirvana Bleu album.

Wallman graduated from Smith College in 1989 and became a freelance writer and editor, living in North Carolina. She published two pieces in Granta, the second of which appeared posthumously.[2] She died in Pinehurst, North Carolina, on 17 June 2015.[3] She was buried next to her two brothers, Chris and Peter, in North Hatley, Quebec, Canada.[4]

Works

Discography
  • Folk Songs and Ballads: Tia Blake and Her Folk-group (LP), SFPP, Paris, 1972
    • reissued by Water Music, California, in 2012, together with Paris demos (1973) and CBC Montreal recordings (1976)
  • Tia Blake, Paris and Montreal Demos 1973-1976 (EP), Yep Roc Records, 2018.[5]

Bibliography

References
  1. "Tia Blake Collection". Southern Folklife Collection, Louis Round Wilson Library, University of North Carolina.
  2. "Tia Wallman". Granta.
  3. "Tia Blake". discogs.
  4. "Christiana (Tia) Elizabeth Wallman". 20 June 2015.
  5. "Happy 2019! A look back at 2018". Southern Folklife Collection. 2 Jan 2019.
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