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Now that he has landed the role in I Just Stopped By To See The Man which opens at Los Angeles' Geffen Theatre later this month, he has been telephoning his father frequently for tips, because the role requires him to do an impersonation of a blues-guitar ace on two numbers, one of them being blues great Robert Johnson's classic Me And The Devil Blues.
Judge urges siblings in battle over 'modest' estate to seek a compromise. More in this section. Her first single, Dream, is being released next month on Donovan Discs — the record label she has set up with her father. And it is instantly clear from talking to her that she is not only creative, but has a sound business head — Astrella and her music manager husband, Jason Rothberg, also have a property company which she can fall back on if her music career doesn't take off.
At the age of seven, Astrella appeared on stage with her father in front of 50, people at a charity telethon in Israel.
By the age of ten, she was being offered record deals, which her parents declined on her behalf. In his teens, he was selling out every major stadium in the world. But by the time he was 24, he was disillusioned and burnt out.
At the age of 24, Donovan dropped out of sight and went to live in Ireland with Linda, the woman he calls his 'muse'. They have now been married for 34 years. He adopted her son, Julian — the result of her affair with tragic Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, who drowned in his swimming pool at the age of 27 after a suspected drugs overdose — and the couple had two children of their own, Oriole and Astrella.
Throughout her childhood, Astrella was aware that she had siblings in America, but there was no contact with them. She discovered her father had abandoned Enid Karl when their son was a baby and she was pregnant with Ione.
Understandably, Ione and Donovan didn't really want to know my dad because he wasn't there for them when he should have been. They came to see us, but it was very difficult. It was nerve-wracking at first and I felt guilty that I'd had our father in my life and they hadn't. We got very close and even though it's difficult to see them — because I live in Majorca and they are in America — we try to get together when we can.
It will take time to heal. Ione was particularly resentful of him — and quite rightly so. What Dad did was wrong and I would have felt the same. Last Thanksgiving was a big stepping stone. She invited my mother and father and it was the first time they had all been together. It was very emotional. Of all her siblings, Astrella describes herself as 'the goody two-shoes that everybody was always very proud of'.
She says: 'I have always been very opinionated and single-minded about what I want. His years of drug-taking and womanising left their mark on her to the extent that she went totally the other way. I had been living my life like a gipsy, surrounded by drugs and crazy people. So when I was 16, I got a job in a clothing store because it was as far removed from my family life as possible.
When she returned from America, however, Astrella inadvertently got caught up with the very life she had tried to avoid. We were together for six years and I was stepmother to his two children.
I had never come across heroin before and it was a shock to the system. And so we split up. I do love him though, and I see a lot of myself in him. Even from a distance I can recognise his cheeky attitude, which is reflected in me even though we don't really know each other. Coco adores her beautiful mum, whom she says is the number one person in her life.
They are now based in Majorca, where Oriole is writing a children's book, but they moved around a lot previously and Coco went to seven different schools. She was always artistic and loved sketching, which helped her when she left school at She found it hard as she has dyscalculia, a specific learning disability affecting numbers and maths. Coco has concentrated on reading books, travelling and art since she left school.
She spent two whole years just drawing and sketching on pieces of paper while her vision was shaping and settling. Last year she realised that she was expressing herself without fear through watercolours, and she is currently developing her oil painting techniques.
While she says she is a very solitary person, Coco has met some amazing like-minded people with an incredible artistic flair in Florence. She is simultaneously nervous and excited about her very first exhibition, The Beginning - Iridescence, which opens this week at Origin Gallery in Dublin.
Her paintings are full of colour and life with loads of movement in them, and she is excited to see how they will be received. Art is a common bond between Coco and her grandfather, and she says that they both have a desire to understand themselves and humanity through creativity.
Donovan says he was impressed at how Coco was self-taught around art, much as he was around music. He believes that she is also reincarnated and was an artist in a former life. Her dedication is bordering on obsession and I'm very proud that she has realised her hunger to communicate with others through her art. She's a chip off the old block. By contrast, Donovan's photography is black and white and he calls it sapphography, inspired by the poet Sappho who is one of his greatest inspirations.
Linda creates the sets and costumes and Donovan utilises a number of techniques to transform them into beautiful works of art using pigment ink print on watercolour paper. Many have sold for thousands of dollars and are housed in a Washington gallery. He has been so supportive, even through the difficulties with school, as has my grandmother. Aside from that, he is everything you could want in a grandfather.
I have such wonderful memories of him sitting by the fire telling stories and playing guitar. Tel: 01 It will contain a selection of Donovan's black-and-white sapphographs and Coco's colourful oil paintings.
How Donovan and Coco, his granddaughter, caught their wind. Folk legend Donovan and his colourful granddaughter Coco Sian are holding an art exhibition together, and the desire to create has bonded them.
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