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Diana The Hunter Intro

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    Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and musician Pi Jacobs is amplifying the concert experience on Live From Memphis, an inventive new album and her first for the Blackbird Record Label that places eight original songs alongside the personal stories that shaped them.
    Recorded with a full band, LIVE at the DittyTV studios in Memphis TN, the project offers a sincere and sometimes funny look at her formative years, her family relationships, and even a few lessons she’s learned along the way.

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Diana The Hunter Intro

Revenge fantasies were not a thing for me. I never used to take pleasure in the suffering of people, even bad people, but when the #MeToo movement hit in 2017, all that changed.

The sheer number of stories I was hearing from famous people down to my personal friend circle was mind-boggling. I was angry about my own #MeToo stories, but having that echoed by every woman I knew, threw me into an all-out rage. Suddenly I was daydreaming vigilante justice: Armies of women tracking down the bad guys, and legal systems that locked them up, and threw away the key for life.

Then one day I stumbled upon a story called “The missing women”. It was a gruesome and true story of Ciudad Juarez, right across the Rio Grande border with El Paso. The young, poor, women who flocked to Juarez to work in factories, were systematically being kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed. This was first documented as far back as 1993, and had continued, until up to 200 + women went missing every year. Local police had never been able to crack the case, in fact, they often blamed the victims, suggesting that they were immoral or “loose”.

The reality was these women had no choice. They needed jobs, and the only jobs available, required late night bus rides, and EVERYONE KNEW that the Juarez bus drivers were procurers for the cartels that were doing the kidnappings – but, with starvation knocking, these women had to take the chance.

Twenty years went by, and nothing changed, until in 2013, a middle-aged woman, with dyed blonde hair or maybe a wig, decided she had had enough. In broad daylight, she would board buses, and shoot the drivers point blank. A panic came over Juarez, with bus drivers refusing to go to work. Then an anonymous email went to a local paper, and “Diana, the huntress of bus drivers” claimed credit for the killings. “Diana” became the number one priority of local police.

The women of Juarez, however, were openly supportive of Diana. One rider was quoted as saying “With the police doing nothing and a society that doesn't care, it is understandable that she took justice into her own hands!"

Like the women of Juarez, I found Diana’s rage and vigilante-ism completely understandable, justifiable even. Her actions satisfied me, and I fantasized that I was somehow in position to be her judge and jury, set her free, and raise her up as a national hero.

Well, it turns out there was no need, as Diana, and her true identity have never been discovered. Obviously, I am no detective, lawyer, or judge, but I do write songs, and I figured if ANYONE deserved a song, it was surely Diana, the Huntress of Bus Drivers.

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from Live From Memphis, released August 13, 2021

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