Dawn White turned seventeen in August of 1966. It was a propitious year. Instead of driving her VW Bug from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada to Montreal and matriculating at McGill University, as she ought, she continued to drive until she crossed the border at Michigan, and she kept on driving straight SW until she reached Los Angeles. She wanted to sing. She had aptitude. She had ambition. She had studied piano and voice since she was eight. When she was fourteen […]

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