"He shrank her until she almost disappeared," the singer writes of her father and mother. "Then he disappeared her for good." Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She ...

Before country singer Allison Moorer made a name for herself in the music industry, she experienced a hugely traumatic event in her childhood: the deaths of her parents by murder and suicide. Moorer, ...

You think you know the Allison Moorer story—the tragic murder-suicide of her parents, the dual rise of her and her sister’s careers, the stunning talent and sometimes explosive personalities, the ...

Allison Moorer and her sister, Shelby Lynne, are both acclaimed singer-songwriters – Allison with an Oscar nomination, and Shelby a Grammy Award. But they also share a childhood marked by one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years now, decades even, many music fans have had an intense interest in the childhood trauma of sisters Allison Moorer and ...

Singer-songwriter Allison Moorer is still trying to heal after the deaths of her parents when she was just 14 years old. The murder-suicide in 1986 was something Moorer and her older sister, ...

Allison Moorer will never forget how the song “One Voice” came to her. Up late one Saturday night in June of 2021, Moorer was getting ready to write after putting her son John Henry Earle to bed.

"I DREAM HE TALKS TO ME: A MEMOIR OF LEARNING HOW TO LISTEN" by Allison Moorer (Hachette Books, 240 pages, $28). "Autism is just as much a part of my son as his blue eyes and long fingers," writes ...

Allison Moorer, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, wrote her memoir as a way to reckon with the moment in which her life and that of her sister, fellow musician Shelby Lynne Moorer, was shattered.