She started the band Coven which is credited as being the first band to mix the occult and rock.. She started the band as a teenager with the bassist Greg "Oz" Osborne and drummer Steve Ross in the mids.
She was a twin, but her sibling died in the womb. The doctor who delivered her was named Jinxs, which is why her mother named her Jinx [2].
Dawsons parents were a Left Hand Path family who would hold secret ceremonies. She also grew up around a staff of maids and cooks who practiced Hoodoo. She was raised to keep her spirituality a secret, which she deeply resented [3]. Her family can be traced back to the Mayflower Compact [1]. At age 13 her family named her Magus High Priestess [5] of their coven.
Growing up she mostly listened to Opera, Classical music, and Blues [6]. She didn't know that many rock bands when she first started Coven, so her producers gave her acid and had her listen to rock musicians.
Dawson was awarded a scholarship to study opera at age 10 at Butler University [7]. She honed her singing and piano talent at the school. While studying Opera she became interested in rock music. This is where Dawson's local celebrity began, and she started to get booked for many gigs.
As Dawson started to gain popularity she wanted to make her own music, not just performing covers. Dawson met Osborne and Ross while playing at local Indianapolis rock clubs. They teamed up to create Coven in They were on hiatus from Due to her use of the occult in her music and vocalness of having been raised in the Left Hand Path, Dawson was taken out of her family's wills [7].
Then there is also the book; I just recorded an excerpt from the book for the box set. The book is an autobiography of my life as I remember it. It is hard to go back that far, all the way to childhood, and it is hard to get it exact. I had to look up years and what has been happening in those years, and it was quite difficult.
It is almost done though, and it is pretty interesting. I am surprised that I have been writing like that, that I almost have an entire book finished. Ritual is probably the whole reason I even did music, besides the fact that I liked music. I always did piano lessons, singing lessons, guitar, sitar, and like I said, the band was a scholarly work when I first put together the group.
I think it is really important information that should be out there. As a teenager I actually rebelled against the rebellers; here I am trying to put out information that I was not supposed to put out.
As a matter of fact, my great aunts went up to Chicago when I was recording the Witchcraft album. They were screaming and yelling that I could not do the sign of the horns, and I lost my inheritance because of it.
I am not angry at anyone; I had money anyway, and I was not trying to make a living; I was not trying to shoot my way to the top. That was not my journey; it was not to be any kind of rock star. I have done a few things, had some dangerous things happen, and now I think it is important to put a blind in there.
I will do a ceremony, but I will not show you how the whole thing is done. Record companies wanted me to be a blond Cher, and I was not into the money. I am just trying to make good, scary music and stories, stories of witchcraft and the occult. That was my main thing, I would get a record deal and they would make me change the material. My path was meant for information, and I am very pleased. Who were some of your biggest influences back then?
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