The ‘Witch’ from Black Sabbath’s Classic Album Cover Is Now a Musician
Louisa Livingstone, the model identified in 2020 as the mysterious cloaked "witch woman" on the cover of Black Sabbath's 1970 self-titled debut album, has continued her decades-long career as a musician, now releasing new material that directly engages with her unexpected metal fame. Living in Spain's Murcia region and recording under the name Indreba, she has embraced the connection to Black Sabbath's devoted fanbase after initially being taken aback by the level of attention it brought her.
Earlier this year, Livingstone released two songs, "Witch Woman" and "The Woman by the Mill," which reference her role in rock history, including the Mapledurham Watermill location where the original album cover photograph was taken by Keith Macmillan. She also tried unsuccessfully to raffle off her autograph for cat-rescue charity around the time of Black Sabbath's farewell Back to the Beginning concert. Most recently, she has released a 23-minute mini rock opera called Alice, inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and conversations with an AI chatbot about consciousness, featuring psych-rock songs that explore themes of technology, algorithms and artificial intelligence.
- Black Sabbath album cover "witch" Louisa Livingstone still records music today
- She released songs "Witch Woman" and "The Woman by the Mill" this year
- New rock opera "Alice" explores AI and Alice in Wonderland themes