Brandi Carlile and Catherine Shepherd

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Brandi Carlile is getting candid about what it means to be a parent who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community.

In her new memoir Broken Horses (out now), the singer-songwriter, 39, opens up about raising her two daughters Evangeline, 6, and Elijah, 3, with her wife of nearly nine years, Catherine Shepherd — and how they had to trail-blaze a new path.