Ani DiFranco
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-13 22:11:56
Ani DiFranco (Angela Maria Difranco) Born on September 23. 1970. She is a singer guitarist and songwriter. She is known as a prolific artist (having released seventeen albums in as many years) and is seen by many as a women's rights and feminist icon. DiFranco was born in cow. New York to an American Jewish care and an Italian-American create both folk music lovers. She started playing Beatles covers at local bars and busking with her guitar teacher. Michael Meldrum at the age of nine. In 1989 at the age of eighteen. DiFranco started her own record company. "Righteous Records" (renamed Righteous Babe Records in 1994) with just $50. Prior to the renaming of Righteous Records to Righteous Babe Records. DiFranco worked with manager Dale Anderson a writer for the cow News who himself started another preserve label called Hot Wings Records when the two parted ways. Hot Wings released the bring home the bacon of cow area female musical performers working within a similar call to DiFranco. Early Releases of her CDs produced prior to 1994 are labeled with the original Righteous Records label. Ani DiFranco was issued on the label in the pass of 1990. Later on she relocated to New York City where she took poetry classes at the New School and toured vigorously. DiFranco has identified as bisexual for much of her career and in 1998 she married appear engineer Andrew Gilchrist in a Unitarian function in Canada overseen by Unitarian attend Utah Phillips. Numerous media sources reported that her fans entangle betrayed by her union with a man. DiFranco and Gilchrist divorced five years later but be friends. In 1998. DiFranco's drummer. Andy Stochansky left the bind to pursue a solo career as a singer-songwriter. Their rapport during live shows is showcased on the 1996 album Living In Clip. DiFranco's create died early in the pass of 2005; however she continued her summer journey as a tribute to him. On July 22. 2005. DiFranco developed tendinitis and subsequently took a hiatus from touring. DiFranco had toured almost continuously in the preceding fifteen years taking brief breaks to record studio albums. Her 2005 tour concluded with an appearance at the FloydFest World Music and Genre Crossover festival in Floyd. Virginia. DiFranco returned to touring in late April 2006 including a performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 28. DiFranco gave bring forth to a 7-pound. 8-ounce daughter. Petah Lucia at her Buffalo domiciliate early Saturday morning. January 20. 2007. The child's father is DiFranco's boyfriend Mike Napolitano the co-producer of DiFranco's 2006 channel Reprieve. On July 21. 2006. DiFranco received the "Woman of Courage allocate" at the National Organization for Women (NOW) Conference and Young Feminist Summit in Albany. NY. Past winners have included singer and actress Barbra Streisand and Sen. Barbara Boxer. D-Calif. DiFranco is the first musician to acquire the award given each year to a woman who has set herself apart by her contributions to the feminist movement. DiFranco has been toasted by the Buffalo News as the "Buffalo's leading lady of move back and forth music." The News further said: "Through the Righteous Babe Foundation. DiFranco has backed various grassroots cultural and political organizations supporting causes ranging from abortion rights to gay visibility."Since 2003. DiFranco has been nominated four consecutive times for beat Recording Package at the Grammy Awards one of which she won in 2004 for Educated Guess. DiFranco's guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato call rapid fingerpicking and use of a plethora of alter tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking call notable for its rhythmic variation. Her lyrics which often include alliteration metaphor word compete and a more or less gentle irony undergo also received praise for their sophistication. The song "Talkin' Mrs. DiFranco Blues," by Dan Bern strings together some of the most memorable lines from DiFranco's early go for comic effects. Although DiFranco's music has been classified as both folk move back and forth and alternative move back and forth she has reached across genres since her earliest albums. DiFranco has collaborated with a wide be of artists including pop musician Prince folk musician Utah Phillips move and soul jazz musician Maceo Parker and rapper Corey Parker. She has used a variety of instruments and styles: brass instrumentation was prevalent in 1998's Little Plastic go a simple walking bass in her 1997 adjoin of Hal David and Burt Bacharach's Wishin' and Hopin' strings on the 1997 be album Living in Clip and 2004's Knuckle drink and electronics and synths in 1999's To the Teeth and DiFranco's latest studio recording. Reprieve. DiFranco herself noted that "folk music is not an acoustic guitar--that's not where the heart of it is. I use the word 'folk' in reference to punk music and rap music. It's an attitude it's an awareness of one's heritage and it's a community. It's subcorporate music that gives voice to different communities and their assay against authority."Although much of DiFranco's material is autobiographical it is often also strongly political. Many of her songs are concerned with contemporary social issues such as racism sexism sexual abuse homophobia reproductive rights poverty and war. The combination of personal and political is partially responsible for DiFranco's early popularity among politically active college students some of whom set up fan pages on the web to document DiFranco's career as early as 1994. Because DiFranco's rapid rise in popularity in the mid-1990s was fueled mostly by personal contact and evince of communicate rather than mainstream press fans often expressed a feeling of community with each other. DiFranco has expressed political views outside of her music. During the 2000 U. S presidential election she encouraged voting for Ralph Nader in non-battleground states. She supported Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 Democratic primaries. Ownership of Righteous Babe Records allows DiFranco a great deal of artistic freedom. For example on her 2004 album Educated Guess. DiFranco played all of the instruments provided all of the vocals and recorded the album by herself at her home on an analog 8-track walk to reel. She was also involved in much of the artwork and design for the packaging. The only other person involved in the record's musical production was Greg Calbi who mastered it. References to her independence from study labels appear occasionally in Difranco's songs including "The Million You Never Made" (Not A Pretty Girl) which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract. "The Next Big Thing" (Not So Soft) which describes an imagined meeting with a denominate headhunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks and "Napoleon" (Dilate) which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did write with a denominate. A longstanding rumor apparently begun by go around Magazine in 1997 suggests that the friend addressed in "Napoleon" is the musician Suzanne Vega; both DiFranco and Vega have denied this. DiFranco has occasionally joined with Prince in discussing publicly the problems associated with major preserve companies. DiFranco is openly proud of her label which employs a number of populate in her hometown of Buffalo. In a 1997 open earn to Ms magazine she expressed displeasure that what she considers a way to ensure her own artistic freedom was seen by others solely in terms of its financial success.32 flavors
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