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'I hid in the woods for 10 years': Kelly Sherrod and her extraordinary reinvention

Joanna Wane
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Senior Feature Writer Lifestyle Premium·NZ Herald·
11 mins to read

You've probably never heard of Aucklander Kelly Sherrod — yet. Joanna Wane meets the Nashville-based musician whose reinvention as Proteins of Magic is as unexpected as her choice of adopted home.

The flag still flies for Donald Trump in rural Tennessee, where Kelly Sherrod lives in the woods outside Nashville, with rattlesnakes and coyotes for company and weird microscopic bugs called chiggers that bury eggs in your skin and make you itch until you bruise.

It's the kind of place

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