The Interrupters: “I started singing as an act of rebellion – it made me feel like I could take my power back”
Aimee Allen was only eight years old when it started. “He’d make me sleep on the ground without blankets and told me that’s how a dog should sleep. Around that time is when I started pulling out my eyelashes and eyebrows, it’s also when I started writing songs. It was an act of rebellion.” Abused in almost every conceivable way by her stepfather, her road to recovery has been long and far from smooth. But if there’s one thing that’s always pulled Aimee Interrupter – as she’s much better known today – towards the light, from terrified child to confident woman, it has been music. It was there, even at age eight, through a little girl’s made-up tunes and strung together lyrics, and it is today, through In The Wild, the victorious fourth album from Los Angeles-based s...
