Janna lapidus leblanc biography of donald

The life of blues-rock icon Stevie Ray Vaughan was under a microscope even before his tragic death in a helicopter accident in 1990. Four years prior, a breakdown put him in a hospital while on tour in Germany, then in drug and alcohol rehab facilities in London and Atlanta, and few celebrities were as open as Vaughan about his addictions and recovery.

Fans knew of his wife, Lenny, for whom he named a “Little Wing”-like instrumental on his 1983 debut, Texas Flood, and of their divorce in ’88.

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They also knew of the schoolgirl-turned-model he met while on tour in New Zealand – the woman Stevie lived with from early ’87 until his death. The Russian-born beauty’s name was Janna Lapidus; now Leblanc, the 48-year-old is married with two children.

The book Leblanc published doesn’t talk much about Vaughan’s music; that’s not its purpose.

It’s about Stevie Ray the man, and it shows glimpses of, and into, sides of him rarely seen by fans. And while there isn’t a lot of text, the I Can't Remember if I Cried - The Rock Widows Project TEFIG