Fiona Apple

Born in 1977 in New York, Fiona Apple came from a family of artists with a mother singer, Diane McAfee, an actor father, Brandon Maggart, but also a sister, Maude, cabaret singer, among others. She learned to play the piano at the age of 8, and began writing her first songs at 12, following her parents' divorce and rape shortly after. Anti-social, she has to take therapy and ends up leaving school from the age of 16. Inspired notably by the distinguished writer and poet of the Pulitzer Prize, Maya Angelou, whose spiritual shadow shone over her career, she began to make herself known by numerous concerts in her hometown, before signing a contract with Sony Music in 1995. Tidal came out in 1996 with a stunning first album, with pop, rock, soul and jazz accents, acclaimed by critics, which will be worth him a grammy award for best singer... rock and the title of singer of the year for Rolling Stone magazine in 1997. With this very personal album of which she writes all the texts and composes the music, the 19-year-old girl surprises everyone, up to the singer Marilyn Manson, then in full ascension, who will even devote her a passage in her "autobiography", Memoirs of Hell. Subsequently, in 1999, she released a second album, which was highly musically worked and with complex lyrics, and whose endless title was commonly shortened to When The Pawn , which would be a little less well received. In the meantime engaged and then separated from director Paul Thomas Anderson, who signs some of her clips, she is about to release her third album in 2003, but Sony apologises for her veto, considering her commercial potential insufficient. After a turbulent period, marked by the FreeFiona movement, launched by fans, and the leaking of a working copy of the record on the Internet at the end of 2004, it is learned in August 2005 that the album Extraordinary Machine will finally come out, in a retouched version and enriched with a title. It is murmured that the beauty herself was not satisfied with the sound of the first draft. After selling 5 million copies of his first two opus, a performance of choice for a very personal music, Fiona regained her wings.
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