Strung Out Episode 48. Sex, Scissors and Rock n' Roll: The incredible story of Cathey Castro

Published: May 23, 2021, 11 p.m.

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Cathey Castro is a tour de force.\\xa0 Animated, with a great laugh, she comes across as confident, friendly and compassionate.\\xa0 Her artistic life began at an early age when she saw the artistry taking place at a local Tucson salon.\\xa0 Impressed with beehives hairdo's, she grew up wielding a scissors and an attitude, much to the dismay of her parents, who saw law school in her future. \\xa0
An introduction to Sonny Bono led her to start working on sets in Hollywood, only to have her take off to apprentice in the red hot London hair salons of the early 1980's.\\xa0 \\xa0

MTV\\xa0 cemented her rise in the stylist world like a can of superhold hairspray.\\xa0 Cathey began a career as a stylist, transforming the appearance of\\xa0 various artists from The Cure to Psychedelic Furs, Dokken, White Snake and Motley Crue.\\xa0 The last band being especially nefarious in their treatment of women that boiled down to downright misogyny. \\xa0 Castro was witness to scenes that were too graphic to use on the podcast. \\xa0 The scene was spiraling out of control,\\xa0 and Castro, was able to leave the business and land on her feet due to some client suggestions to invest in a small company called Microsoft. \\xa0 Fast forward a decade later, her successful entrepreneurial skills were\\xa0 halted with a discovery of melanoma cancer.\\xa0 When the cancer spread to tumors in her brain, she was given limited time to live by western doctors.\\xa0 It was at this point that her life took a series of incredible turns that can only be described as a run in with the Divine.\\xa0 \\xa0




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