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17 de mai. de 2024 · But after 22 records, why can’t Ani DiFranco’s work speak for itself? Yes, her forthcoming album is shaped by stories — ones about reproductive freedom, the double-edged sword of the pandemic, identity and ever-evolving belief systems that have shaped each of its 11 songs.
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DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, on September 23, 1970, the daughter of Elizabeth (Ross) and Dante Americo DiFranco, who had met while attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her father was of Italian descent, and her mother was from Montreal. DiFranco started playing Beatles covers at local bars and busking with her guitar teac...
DiFranco started her own record company, Righteous Babe Records, in 1989 at age 19. She released her self-titled debut album in the winter of 1990, shortly after relocating to New York City. There, she took poetry classes at The New School, where she met poet Sekou Sundiata, who was to become a friend and mentor. She toured steadily for the next 15...
DiFranco came out as bisexual in her twenties, and has written songs about love and sex with women and men. She addressed the controversy about her sexuality in the song "In or Out" on the album Imperfectly (1992). However, in 2015 she told the blog GoPride.com that she was ""not so queer anymore, but definitely a woman-centered woman and just a hu...
DiFranco has been a critical success for much of her career, with a career album average of 72 on Metacritic. Living in Clip, DiFranco's 1998 double live album, is the only one to achieve gold record status to date. DiFranco was praised by The Buffalo Newsin 2006 as "Buffalo's leading lady of rock music". Starting in 2003, DiFranco was nominated fo...
Style
DiFranco's guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato style, rapid fingerpicking and many alternate tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its rhythmic variation. Her lyrics, which often include alliteration, metaphor, word play and a more or less gentle irony, have also received praise for their sophistication.[citation needed] Although DiFranco's music has been classified as both folk rock and alternative rock, she has reached across genre...
Musical collaborations, cover versions, and samples
DiFranco has collaborated with a wide range of artists. In 1997, she appeared on Canadian songwriter Bruce Cockburn's Charity of Night album. In 1998, she produced fellow folksinger Dan Bern's album Fifty Eggs. She developed a deep association with folksinger and social activist Utah Phillips throughout the mid-1990s, sharing her stage and her audience with the older musician until his death in 2008 and resulting in two collaborative albums: The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (1996) and Fellow Worke...
Lyrical content
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. In 2008, she donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD to assist with the restoration of the devastation done to Southeast Asia from the 2004 tsunami.The combination of personal and political is partially responsible for DiFranco's early popularity...
From the earliest days of her career, DiFranco has lent her voice and her name to a broad range of social movements, performing benefit concerts, appearing on benefit albums, speaking at rallies, and offering info table space to organizations at her concerts and the virtual equivalent on her website, among other methods and actions. In 1999, she cr...
Studio albums
1. Ani DiFranco(1990) 2. Not So Soft(1991) 3. Imperfectly(1992) 4. Puddle Dive(1993) 5. Out of Range(1994) 6. Not a Pretty Girl(1995) 7. Dilate(1996) 8. Little Plastic Castle(1998) 9. Up Up Up Up Up Up(1999) 10. To the Teeth(1999) 11. Revelling/Reckoning(2001) 12. Evolve(2003) 13. Educated Guess(2004) 14. Knuckle Down(2005) 15. Reprieve(2006) 16. Red Letter Year(2008) 17. ¿Which Side Are You On?(2012) 18. Allergic to Water(2014) 19. Binary(2017) 20. Revolutionary Love(2021)
Live albums
1. 1994 – An Acoustic Evening With 2. 1994 – Women in (E)motion(German Release) 3. 1997 – Living in Clip 4. 2002 – So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter 5. 2004 – Atlanta – 10.9.03(Official Bootleg series #1) 6. 2004 – Sacramento – 10.25.03(Official Bootleg series #1) 7. 2004 – Portland – 4.7.04(Official Bootleg series #1) 8. 2005 – Boston – 11.16.03(Official Bootleg series #1) 9. 2005 – Chicago – 1.17.04(Official Bootleg series #1) 10. 2005 – Madison – 1.25.04(Official Bootleg series #1) 11. 20...
EPs
1. 1996 – More Joy, Less Shame 2. 1999 – Little Plastic Remixes(limited distribution) 3. 2000 – Swing Set 4. 2016 – Play God
2004 – Self-evident: poesie e disegni2007 – VersesAni DiFranco at IMDbAni DiFranco discography at MusicBrainzAni DiFranco's 23rd Album 'Unprecedented Sh!t' ... May 17, 2024. Today, Ani DiFranco releases Unprecedented Sh!t, produced by BJ Burton (Bon Iver, Low), on her label, Righteous Babe Records. The title Unprecedented Sh!t is not only representative of how much...
15 de mai. de 2024 · Ahead of the release of Unprecedented Sh!t, Ani DiFranco spoke with GRAMMY.com about her latest album, her Broadway debut, and a career of DIY achievements. You have released 22 albums before this, which is a huge body of work for any artist.
17 de mai. de 2024 · Both the 22-year-old’s sense of style and dry, clipped vocal delivery are at times reminiscent of another queer trailblazer, Ani DiFranco, whose fierce independence helped carve a path for “outsider pop” artists like Eilish—and who also has a new album out this week.
Ani DiFranco is set to release her 23rd album - Unprecedented Sh!t, on May 17, 2024. Pre-order the album here! Ani DiFranco’s forthcoming album is shaped by stories about reproductive freedom, the double-edged sword of the pandemic, identity and ever-evolving belief systems that have shaped each of its 11 songs.
Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica and even more distant sounds.
