When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi’s Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally – discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.
![When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home Image](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/when-i-was-young-my-mother-folk-singer-kate-mcgarrigle-brought-home.jpg?x85372 "When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home")
