Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet. Classically trained piano since childhood, Apple started making his own song when he was 8 years old. Her debut album, Tidal , was written when 17-year-old Apple was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Appearance for the single "Criminal". He followed with When Pion... (1999), produced by Jon Brion, who was also critically and commercially successful and got a platinum certificate.
For his third album, Extraordinary Machine 2005, Apple re-collaborated with Brion, and began recording an album in 2002. However, Apple reportedly displeased with production and chose not to release recordings, mistakenly protesting Epic Records, believing that the label was holding back his release. The album was eventually reproduced without Brion and released in October 2005 for critical acclaim. In 2012, she released her fourth studio album, The Idler Wheel... , which also received critical acclaim and was followed by an extensive tour of the United States.
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Born in New York City in 1977, Apple was the daughter of singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart, who met when both played a role in Broadway Musicals
Apple is a classically trained piano as a child, and started composing his own work at the age of eight. While learning to play the piano, he often picked up sheet music and translated the guitar tabs into corresponding notes. Apple then began playing along with the standard jazz composition after becoming proficient, where he found Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, who became a major influence on him.
At the age of 12, Apple was raped outside the apartment he shared with his mother and sister in Harlem. He then develops an eating disorder, deliberately streamlining his growing body, which he sees as "bait." After the incident, Apple also suffered panic attacks while walking home from school, which caused him to move to Los Angeles to live with his father for a year. In 2000, he insisted that he did not write a song about this trauma: "It does not go into writing.This is a boring pain.This is a very old pain that, you know, nothing poetic I'm about that. "
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1994-98: Beginning of career and Tidal
Apple was introduced to the music industry in 1994, when he gave a demo tape containing the song "Never Is a Promise", "Not One of Those Times", and "He Takes a Taxi" to his friend who is a babysitter for Kathryn Schenker's publicist music. Schenker later gave the tape to Sony Music executive Andy Slater. Apple's ability caught his attention, and Slater signed it to a recording contract.
In 1996, Apple's debut album, Tidal , was released by Work Records and Columbia Records. The album sold 2.7 million copies and was certified three times platinum in the US "Pidana", the third single, became a hit and hit the top 40 in the US Billboard Hot 100. The song is controversial Mark Romanek's music video played on MTV. Other singles from Tidal include "Shadowboxer", "Sleep to Dream" and "Never Is a Promise". Apple received the MTV Video Music Award for "Best New Artist" for its song Sleep to Dream in 1997. The New Yorker and NYRock criticized MTV- his. speech award event. "When I have something to say, I will say it," he said, responding to this criticism in an article in Rolling Stone in January 1998.
During this period, Apple also made a recording of The Beatles "Across the Universe" and Percy Mayfield "Please Send Me Someone to Love" for the soundtrack of the movie Pleasantville. He then canceled the last twenty-one dates on the tour to support his album due to "personal family issues".
1999-2003: When Pawn... and hiatus
The second album of Apple, When Pion... , was released in 1999. The full title is a poem written by Apple after reading the letters that appear in Spin with respect to articles that have thrown it in a negative light in a previous problem. The title length made it a place in the Guinness Book of Records for 2001. However, in October 2007, it no longer had the longest album title, as Soulwax released Most of the Remix , the album remix whose title goes beyond Pion as long as 100 characters. When Pawn was scouted during Apple's relationship with film director Paul Thomas Anderson. When Pion, produced by Jon Brion, uses more expressive lyrics, experiments more with drum loops, and includes Chamberlin and drummer Matt Chamberlain. The album received positive reviews from publications such as The New York Times and Rolling Stone . It did not go well commercially as its debut, even though it was a certified RIAA-certified platinum album and sold one million copies in the US. The album's main single, "Fast as You Can", reached the top twenty on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and became Apple's first Top 40 hit in the UK. The videos for two follow-up singles, "Paper Bag" and "Limp" (directed by Anderson's boyfriend), received very little play.
In a famous February 1990 'slump', after performing for forty minutes in a set that was hampered by equipment problems up to 3,000 spectators in New York City's Roseland Ballroom, frustrated Apple left the stage without returning. His appearance saw Apple appear desperate at the sound quality, apologized many times for the sound and cried. After completing a concert tour to support his second album in 2000, Apple moved to Los Angeles. During hiatus, Apple is considering retiring from his recording career. Apple sings with Johnny Cash on the cover of Simon & amp; Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water" ended on his album American IV: The Man Comes Around and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Country Collaboration with Vocals". He also collaborated with Cash on Cat Stevens's "Father and Son", which was included in his collection in 2003 Unearthed .
2002-10: Extraordinary Machine
Apple's third album, Extraordinary Machine , was originally produced by Jon Brion. In the spring of 2002, Apple and Brion, old friends and producers at When the Pawn, met for their weekly lunch meeting. Brion reportedly "begged" Apple to make another album. Apple agrees, and Brion goes to the Apple label, Epic Records, with strict conditions (including no time limit), which is finally approved by the label. The recording session began in 2002, at the Ocean Way studio in Nashville, Tennessee, but later moved to the Paramour Mansion in Los Angeles. Work on the album continued until 2003, and in May of that year it was left to Sony executives. In 2004 and 2005, tracks leaked on the Internet in MP3 format and played on US and international radio. Furthermore, MP3s from all over the album online. Although the websites that distribute the album quickly close, it immediately reaches the P2P network and is downloaded by fans. Fan supported campaigns support the official release of the album.
Mike Elizondo, who previously played bass at Pawn , was brought back as a co-producer to complete the tracks he started with Brion and Apple. Spin then reported the following: "Fans mistakenly think that Apple's record label Epic has rejected the first version of Extraordinary Machine ... in fact, according to Elizondo, Apple is not happy with the result, and it was his decision to repeat the note, not the label. "In August 2005, the album was given the October release date. Production is largely tidied "from scratch" by Elizondo and co-produced by Brian Kehew. Two of the previous 11 leaked tracks are relatively unchanged, and a new song is also included. Despite suggestions that the album has caused a rift between Brion and Apple, they regularly perform together in Largo, a club in Los Angeles, including a performance together with Elizondo on bass shortly before the news is aired from the official release. Extraordinary Machine debuted at number seven and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Pop Vocal Album". It was eventually certified gold and sold 600,000 copies in the US, although its singles ("Farewell Gift", "O 'Sailor", "Not About Love", and "Get Him Back") failed to include Billboards chart. Apple went on a tour to promote the album at the end of 2005.
In June 2006, Apple appeared in the play "Come Over and Get It (Up in 'Dem Guts)" by comedian Zach Galifianakis. Galifianakis previously appeared in the music video for Apple's "Not About Love". Apple recorded the cover of "Sally's Song" for the release of a 2006 special edition of the soundtrack for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas movie. In May 2006, Apple paid tribute to Elvis Costello on the VH1 Deadly Life Decade concert series, with Costello's "I Want You". His version was later released as a digital single. Apple toured the East Coast during August 2007, with Nickel Creek. In 2008, Apple recorded a duet entitled "Still I" with Christophe Deluy. In 2009, Apple discussed "Why Trying to Change Me Now" and "I'm Walking A Little Faster" because The Best Is Not Coming - Songs from Cy Coleman .
In January 2010, Fiona Apple and Jon Brion performed together on "Love and Haiti, Too: A Music Benefit", a charity concert for people wounded by the Haiti earthquake. Fiona sings a cover of "(S) her Funny That Way", composed by Neil Moret, a lyric by Richard Whiting, who is often associated with singer Billie Holiday. In June 2010, Fiona released a song called "So Sleepy", produced by Jon Brion and written by children involved with the nonprofit organization 826LA. The song is included in a compilation album released by the organization titled Chickens in Love . Apple collaborated with Margaret Cho on his album Cho Dependent , which was released on August 24, 2010.
2010-present: The Idler Wheel... and The Affair open the theme
At the end of 2010, Billboard published an article stating that Apple plans to release a new album in spring 2011, with musician Michelle Branch claiming to have heard some new songs. Drummer Charley Drayton also told the Modern Drummer magazine that he co-produced the recording. However, the album was not released in the spring and Billboard reported later that Epic was unaware of the record. Apple delayed the release of the album until 2012, explaining that he waited "until his label found a new president and that he did not want his work wrongly handled amid corporate chaos." In January 2012, after the head of his new record label, LA Reid hinted at new music from Apple, Epic Records announced that the album will be released later this year. Apple announced the show at South by Southwest Festival and the spring 2012 tour soon after.
The Idler Wheel Is Fixed Than The Screw And Wire Grip Drive Will Serve You More Than The Rope That Will Never Do, Apple's fourth studio album, was released on June 19, 2012, in the United States. According to an article on the American Songwriter " The Idler Wheel is not always pretty, but it's pulsating with life, brutal and true."
Apple contributed a previously unreleased song titled "Dull Tool" to the soundtrack of Judd Apatow 2012 movie This Is 40 . Other songs recorded for movies not included in the soundtrack have not been released yet. In September 2013, a Chipotle ad appeared online with an Apple soundtrack that included the "Pure Imagination" of the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The video, which follows the scarecrow when he discovers the truth about farms and processed foods, is described as "haunted," "dystopian," "weird," and "beautiful." In 2014, Apple wrote the opening theme, "Container", for the drama series Showtime The Affair . During 2014, Apple also performed at a number of performances by Blake Mills, including in New York City and Cambridge, MA, during his tour to support the second full album, Heigh Ho. The couple first collaborated openly on the acoustic version of Apple's song "I Know" in 2013. Fiona Apple has collaborated with Andrew Bird, and in 2016, she featured in the song "Left Handed Kisses" from the album Are You Seriously .
In 2017, he released "Tiny Hands" for the Women March in Washington.
In 2018, she joined Shirley Manson at Girl's Girl-driven Girls Festival in Los Angeles to cover "You Do not Own Me" by Lesley Gore, wearing a white T-shirt with "KNEEL, PORTNOW" written on it in ink. This was considered in response to Stubborn Grilmy's neo-criticized comments that women need to "improve" to get more Grammy nods.
Personal life
Apple is a vegan. In 2012, she appeared on the Marcellon WTF podcast in July 2012 and discussed her life and career; in it, he reveals that he has fought against obsessive-compulsive disorder throughout his adult life.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Apple dated director Paul Thomas Anderson. In an interview in June 2012, it was revealed that Apple had married a French photographer a few years earlier, "for complicated reasons."
On September 19, 2012, Apple was arrested at an internal Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas and accused of hashish. The authorities arrested Apple in Hudspeth County Prison.
In 2012, Apple lives in Los Angeles. In November 2012, Apple wrote letters to fans - a scan posted to websites and Facebook pages - delayed the South American leg of the tour because of the health of her dog, Janet. According to the letter, the dog has Addison's disease and has had an "idling tumor on his chest" for two years.
Discography
- Tidal (1996)
- When the Pion... (1999)
- Extraordinary Machine (2005)
- Lazy Wheel... (2012)
Awards and nominations
See also
- "Apple of Sodom", Apple-inspired Marilyn Manson
References
External links
- Fiona Apple on Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Fiona Apple on Facebook
- Fiona Apple on IMDb
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