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Article: Erin Hamilton dancing as fast as she can; she has had a rough ride--her girlfriend's suicide, her sister's death, and her own addiction--but Carol Burnett's dance-diva daughter is clean and back on the circuit. (The Music Issue)(Cover Story).(Interview)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2002
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SHOWBIZ HOLDS FEW MYSTERIES FOR ERIN HAMILTON. Growing up as the daughter of TV legend Carol Burnett and singer-producer Joe Hamilton, Erin learned from the best. From infancy to age 11 she spent every Friday night sitting in the orchestra pit watching the taping of her mother's long-running Carol Burnett Show. "I wanted to be up there on that stage," Erin recall--but not as an actor. "I can't act for shit and never wanted to," she adds, laughing. "I was much more interested in music."
A few lifetimes later, she still is. The 31-year-old has been on a dizzying fide: fame, motherhood, a string of dance hits, the love of both men and women. The tabloids have tagged ...