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Ani DiFranco

Biography
DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, a Jewish American mother, Elizabeth, and an Italian-American father, Dante, who were both and gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She started playing Beatles covers at local bars and busking with her guitar teacher, Michael Meldrum, at the age of nine years.
In 1989, DiFranco started her own label, Righteous Records (renamed Righteous Babe Records in 1994). Before the renaming of Righteous Records to Righteous Babe Records, DiFranco worked with manager Dale Anderson, a writer for The Buffalo News, which started another label called Hot Wings Records after the two parted. Hot Wings launched the work area Buffalo female musical performers with styles similar to the Difranco. Early versions of their CDs produced before 1994 are marked with the label original Righteous Records. Her debut album self titled was released on the label the winter of 1990. Later, she moved to New York City, where she took classes in poetry at the New School and toured vigorously.
DiFranco identifies himself as bisexual, and has written songs about love and sex with both sexes. She addressed the controversy over his sexuality with the song "In or Out." In 1998, she married sound engineer Andrew Gilchrist in the Unitarian Universalist Service in Canada, supervised by UU minister and famous folk singer Utah Phillips [citation needed]. Numerous media sources reported that the fans felt betrayed by their union with a man. DiFranco And Gilchrist divorced five years later.
In 1998, DiFranco drummer Andy Stochansky, left the band to pursue a solo career as a singer-songwriter. Their live show during the rapport appeared in 1997 the album Living in Clip.
DiFranco father died in early summer 2004. In July 2005, DiFranco developed tendinitis and had a gap of tourism. DiFranco toured almost continuously in the fifteen years prior, only brief breaks to record studio albums. Her 2005 tour concluded with an appearance at the World Music and Genre Crossover festival FloydFest Floyd, Virginia. DiFranco returned to touring in late April 2006, including a presentation at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 28 and a performance at the famous Calgary Folk Music Festival on July 30, 2006.
DiFranco gave birth to a daughter, Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano, at his home in Buffalo January 20, 2007. The child's father is DiFranco's new husband, Mike Napolitano, co-producer of the 2006 version of DiFranco extension. Essentially, one-time resident Full New Orleans, DiFranco is strongly influenced by the city's post-Katrina situation.
She went on tour in 2008 with a band consisting of Todd Sickafoose on bass, Allison Miller on drums and Mike Dillon on percussion and vibraphone. DiFranco returned to the Calgary Folk Music Festival in July 2008.
DiFranco Napolitano and married in January 2009 in Hawaii.
Ani DiFranco, RZA, and Steve Albini in
The New Yorker Festival, in September 2005.
Recognition
On July 21, 2006, DiFranco received the "Woman of Courage Award" from the National Organization for Women (NOW) Conference and the Summit of Young Feminists in Albany, New York. Winners have included singer and actress Barbra Streisand and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. DiFranco is one of the first musicians to receive the prize, awarded annually to a woman who was created separated by their contributions to the feminist movement.
DiFranco was toasted by the Buffalo News as "Buffalo leading lady of rock music." The news further said
"Through the Righteous Babe Foundation, DiFranco has supported various grassroots cultural and political support to causes ranging from the abortion rights to gay visibility. "
Since 2003, DiFranco has been nominated four consecutive times for Best Recording Package at the Grammy Awards, one of which she won in 2004, to guess.
musical style and the people "label
DiFranco play the guitar is often characterized by a signature staccato style, fingerpicking fast and many alternate tunings. It offers many of his lines in a speaking style remarkable for its rhythmic variation. His lyrics, which often include alliteration, metaphors, wordplay and a more or less gentle irony, also received praise for their sophistication.
Although music has been classified DiFranco as much as folk rock and alternative rock genres since she arrived at her first albums. DiFranco has collaborated with a variety of artists like Prince musician, who recorded two songs with DiFranco in 1999: "Providence" in his album to the teeth, and "I Love U, but I do not trust U Anymore" on rave Prince UN2 the Joy Fantastic album: the musician and social activist Utah Phillips (in the past, did not go anywhere in 1996 and co-workers in 1999), funk and soul jazz musician Maceo Parker and rapper Corey Parker. She used a variety of instruments and styles: brass instrumentation was prevalent in 1998's Little Plastic Castle, an easy walk down on its cover in 1997, Hal David and Burt Bacharach Wishin 'and' Waiting, "cords in 1997 live album Living in Clip and 2004's Knuckle Down, electronic and synthesizers in 1999, is to the teeth and, in 2006, Reprieve.
DiFranco be noted that "popular music is not a guitar that is not where her heart is. I use the word "folk" in reference to punk music and rap. It is an attitude, is an awareness of their heritage, and is a community. It subcorporate music that gives voice to different communities and their struggle against authority. "
Lyrics, politics and religion
Although much of DiFranco material is autobiographical, it is also often highly political. Many of his songs are concerned with issues contemporary social, such as racism, sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights, poverty and war. The combination of personal and political is partially responsible for the popularity of early DiFranco among politically active college students, particularly those of the left wing, some of which created a fan page on the Web for documents DiFranco career as early as 1994. DiFranco rapid rise in popularity in the mid-1990s was driven mainly by personal contact and by word of mouth rather than media.
DiFranco has expressed political views outside his music. During the 2000 U.S. presidential election, she actively supported and voted Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. She supported Dennis Kucinich in 2004 and 2008, the Democratic primary. Kucinich appeared with her in a series of concerts across the country during two seasons primaries. DiFranco began performing at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Early in his career, DiFranco considered himself an atheist. On the topic of religion, DiFranco said:
"Well, I'm not a religious person myself. I'm an atheist. I think religion serves many different purposes in people's lives, and I can recognize the value of that, you know, the value of the ceremony, the value of community, or even have a forum to gather and talk about ideas, about morals which is a concept cool. But then, of course, institutional religions are so problematic. "
Since becoming a mother and releasing his album Red Letter years in 2009, DiFranco said in concert on "find religion". In concerts, she said that her song "The Atom" is an "alternative Christian. "In" The Atom "she sings Holy is the atom m / The truly intelligent design / For all / evolution is graciously aligned. In Reno, in 2008, before singing "The Atom," she said, "I've kind of got religion recently, I took a religion sweet, I'm familiar with the type of spray and a can outside of patriarchy, and this is what I came up with. "
independence Label
Ownership of Righteous Babe Records allows DiFranco a great deal of artistic freedom. For example, in her 2004 album Educated Guess, DiFranco played all the instruments, provided that all voices, and recorded the album alone in his house in an eight-track analog reel to reel. She was also involved in much of the art and packaging design. The only other person involved in recording music production was Greg Calbo, which dominates it.
References to its independence from major labels appear occasionally in DiFranco songs including "The Million You Never Made" (Not A Pretty Girl), which discusses the act of refusing a lucrative contract, "The Next Big Thing" (Not So Soft), which describes an imaginary encounter with a label head hunter that evaluates the singer based on his appearance, and "Napoleon" (Dilate), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.
DiFranco occasionally joined with Prince in discussing publicly the problems associated with large labels. Righteous Babe Records employs a number of people in his hometown of Buffalo. In a 1997 open letter to Ms. magazine she expressed displeasure that what she considers a way to ensure their own artistic freedom was seen by others only in terms of their financial success.
Recent work
On September 11, 2007, she launched its first retrospective of his career, called Canon and the first time, a collection of poetry in a book titled Verses.
album DiFranco's Reprieve It was released on 08 August, 2006. It has already been leaked on iTunes for several hours, about July 1, 2006 due to an error that was launched in 2002. DiFranco performed with Cyndi Lauper on "Sisters of Avalon," a track from Lauper's 2005 collection The Body Acoustic.
She also collaborated with fellow folk singer Dar Williams in "Comfortably Numb", a cover of Pink Floyd music Williams's 2005 album, My Best Self.
In 2002, his interpretation of "Greg Brown's The Poet Game "appeared in Going Driftless: Tribute artist Greg Brown.
Red Letter Year is DiFranco latest studio album, released on 30 September 2008. DiFranco says about the album:
hen I hear my new album, I hear very relaxed me, which I think has been missing in many of my recorded canon. Now I feel that in a really good place. My partner Mike Napolitano co-produced this record my guitar and voice never sounded better, and that because of him. That is, I have this great band and crew technique. And my baby, she teaches me to just be in my skin, to do less and be more.32]
Discography
Discography
"Napoleon"
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1990 - Ani DiFranco
1991 - Not So Soft
1992 - Imperfect
1993 - Puddle Dive
1994 - Like I said: Songs 1990-1991
1994 - Out of Range
1995 - Not a Pretty Girl
1996 - Similarity
1998 - Little Plastic Castle
1999 - Up Up Up Up Up Up
1999 - to the teeth
2001 - Revelling / Reckoning
2003 - Evolve
2004 - Guess Studies
2005 - Knuckle Down
2006 - Reprieve
2007 - Canon (compilation)
2008 - Red Letter Year
Live albums
1994 - The Night Acoustic
1994 - Women in () and the movement Import (in German)
1997 - Living in Clip
2002 - Shouting So Much, much laughter
2004 - Atlanta - 09.10.2003 (Official Bootleg Series)
2004 - Sacramento - 10:25:03 (Official Bootleg Series)
2004 - Portland - 04.07.2004 (Official Bootleg Series)
2005 - - Boston 11:16:03 (Official Bootleg series)
2005 - Chicago - 1:17:04 (Official Bootleg Series)
2005 - Madison - 1:25:04 (Official Bootleg Series)
2005 - Rome - 11:15:04 (Official Bootleg Series)
2006 - Carnegie Hall - 04/06/2002 (Official Bootleg Series - available in stores)
2007 - Boston - 11:10:06 (Official Bootleg series)
2008 - Hamburg - 10:18:07 (Official Bootleg Series)
2009 - Saratoga, CA - 9:18:06 (Official Bootleg Series)
2009 - Chicago - 9:22:07 (Official Bootleg Series)
EPs
1996 - More joy, less shame
1999 - Little Plastic Remixes (limited distribution)
2000 - Swing Set
Demos
1989 - Demo tape (unreleased)
Videos
2002 - Render: Spanning time with Ani DiFranco
2004 - Trust
2008 - LIVE in Babeville
Poetry
2004 - "The self-evident: Poetry and disegni"
2007 - Verses
Other contributions
2004 WFUV: City Folk Live VII "Bliss Like This"
See also
Righteous Babe Records
Category: Artists Righteous Babe
References
http://www.righteousbabe.com/ani/evolve/grammy.asp ^ Evolve Wins the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
Ab ^ Gene Stout (August 21, 2006). "DiFranco is time for radical sabbatical: Indie rocker records new album and is preparing for motherhood." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=486202. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
^ "Sound Bites". Daily Texan. September 17, 2002. http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2002/09/17/Entertainment/Sound.Bites-499123.shtml. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
^ Lori Leibovich (March 27, 1998). "Anyone who thinks Mom: Hey hey, ho ho, the matriarchy has to go." Salon. http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/03/27feature.html. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
^ "Fame has not changed the way DiFranco works: Independent." The Sacramento Bee. April 14, 2000. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SB&p_theme=sb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB047DB661B7CA7&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved from 2008-01-02.
^ Ani DiFranco
^ Ani DiFranco Biography - Discography, Music, Lyrics, Album, CD, Career, famous works, and awards
^ Dante Americo DiFranco Memorial Page
^ Notes on the album Open Ended Question
^ Ani DiFranco, Folksinger and Entrepreneur by Kris Scott Marti, November 28, 2004
^ By Obejo Achy, The Advocate, December 9, 1997
↑ Biography of Ani DiFranco in gotpoetry.com
^ "Still Fighting Review" Paste. September 2006.
^ "Introducing Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano" Celebrity Baby Blog. July 3, 2007.
^ Dowd, Kathy Ehrich. "Singer Ani DiFranco Welcomes a Daughter." People. January 23, 2007.
^ Huff, Quentin B. Ani DiFranco: Red Letter Year. Accessed December 18, 2008.
^ Farley, Christopher John. A life in music. Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2008. Accessed December 18, 2008.
^ Rolling Stone news
Hearey ^ Owen (7/22/2006). 'Righteous Babe' announced that she is pregnant. "Buffalo News: pp. D1. http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:BNWB&rft_val_format=info:ofi / fmt: kev: mtx: ctx & & svc_dat 1130D77E50D232B8 rft_dat = = Infoweb: aggregated5 & req_dat 0D0CB57AB53DF815 =. Retrieved 05/11/2008.
^ Facts about Ani
^ Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip by Jon Steltenpohl
^ Rock Troubadours by Rodgers Jeffrey Pepper
^ HackWriters.com article: "Ani DiFranco interview."
^ Rolling Stone magazine article, "Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith Go Green in NYC Nader Rally - Rally Nader calls Vedder, DiFranco at Madison Square Garden "
^ Salon.com article: "The Letters Nader."
^ Brian Orloff (September 16, 2004). "DiFranco Knuckles Down". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/anidifranco/articles/story/6485503/difranco_knuckles_down. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
^ Lauren Gitlin (August 27, 2003). "Ani, Support Kucinich Willie." Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/anidifranco/articles/story/5935166/ani_willie_support_kucinich. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
^ Rothschild, Matthew (05/09/2000). "Interview folk singer Ani DiFranco." The Progressive. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_5_64/ai_61963258/pg_5. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
^ Guess educated Article
^ Interview with Ms. Magazine
^ ITunes Mislabeled Release Date in 2002
^ Shock Records: "Ani DiFranco releases new album with red letters" Retrieved on 08-15-08
MMguide.musicmatch.com ^ Retrieved on 06/06/2007
Links External
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Ani DiFranco
Discography
Discography
Dive Ani DiFranco Not So Soft Imperfectly Puddle Out of Range Not a Pretty Girl Dilate Little Castle Plastic Up Up Up Up Up Up to the teeth Revelling / Reckoning Evolve Educated Guess Knuckle Down Reprieve Red Letter Year
Live albums
An Acoustic Evening With Living in Clip Women in (E) motion So much shouting, So much laughter Atlanta - Sacramento 09/10/2003 - 10:25:03 Portland - 07/04/2004 Boston - Chicago 11:16:03 to 1:17:04 Madison - Rome 1:25:04 - Carnegie 11:15:04 Hall - Boston 06/04/2002 - 11:10:06 in Hamburg, Germany - 10:18:07 Saratoga, CA - Chicago 9:18:06 to 9:22:07
Compilation Albums
Like I said: Songs 199 091 Canon
EPs
More joy, less shame Little Plastic Remixes Swing Set
With Utah Phillips
The past was not anywhere your employees
Articles Related
Righteous Babe Records
Persondata
NAME
DiFranco, Ani
Alternative names
DiFranco, Angela Mary (birth name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION
musician and activist
DATE OF BIRTH
September 23, 1970 (09/23/1970) (39 years)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Buffalo, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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