'It got a little bit too much too soon, so my father pulled me back,' she recalls. By the age of ten, she was being offered record deals, which her parents declined on her behalf. Her first single, Dream, is being released next month on Donovan Discs - the record label she has set up with her father.Īnd it is instantly clear from talking to her that she is not only creative, but has a sound business head - Astrella and her music manager husband, Jason Rothberg, also have a property company which she can fall back on if her music career doesn't take off.Īt the age of seven, Astrella appeared on stage with her father in front of 50,000 people at a charity telethon in Israel. Having survived the most unconventional of childhoods, she is, today, a beautiful young woman of 34 who is happily married, ready to start a family of her own and about to embark on a music career. Much of the credit for his fragile reconciliation with the splintered parts of his family must go to Astrella. Yet, somehow, the family has survived and, today, Donovan is more likely to be found playing contentedly with his grandchildren than indulging in the excesses of his past. And his other daughter, Astrella Celeste, endured a six-year relationship with her heroin-addicted lover, Paul Ryder, from the rock band Happy Mondays. His youngest daughter, Oriole, from his marriage to Linda Lawrence, became pregnant at 17 and has two children by different fathers. He abandoned his lover, the American model Enid Karl and their two children - Ione Skye (now a film star) and Donovan Leitch (who became a Calvin Klein model) - and was estranged from them for many years. He also left a legacy of dysfunction that deeply affected those who loved him. But it wasn't just his songs that lived on in people's consciousness. He had a supporting role in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, which starred Martha Plimpton.He was the ultimate hippy who left behind him a legacy of memorable flower-power songs such as Hurdy Gurdy Man, Mellow Yellow and Jennifer Juniper.įor a few years in the Sixties, Donovan was more famous than the Queen. He then had a son named Donovan in 2015 with Libby Mintz. He had a daughter, Violet, with Kirsty Hume, whom he was married to from 1997 to 2014. He had a starring role in the 1989 thriller, Cutting Class. He debuted as a dancer in Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. Supporting film actor who had roles in the 1989 film Glory and the 1988 film The Blob. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.ĭonovan Leitch was born in the Year of the Goat. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders.
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