Raise your hand if you've heard of the Sutherland sisters. Anyone? Anyone? And yet, in their day (the late 1800s), they were rock stars. These seven young women sang for a living. But that, of course, wasn't all. Every act has to have its highlight, and the sisters would unfurl theirs at the end of each show: Between them, they boasted a full 36½ feet of hair. Like other, more contemporary singing siblings, the Sutherlands didn't have the most pleasant of upbringings. Nor did their personal lives improve much or their lifestyles become more conventional once their popular hair products (what else?) made them a small fortune: http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/history/seven-sutherland-sisters
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