Theme: The Caged Bird Sings
A collection of video’s showcasing the ‘powerful’ messages of contemporary women. Songs primarily from the 90’s.
Vnertia Music and Artist Project
If you like the angst-ridden meter and deep emotional base tones of Fiona Apple or the head-wrap and self-actualized performance of Erykha Badu – then this playlist is for you.
Fiona Apple (born Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart on September 13, 1977) is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter. She gained popularity through her 1996 album Tidal, especially with the single “Criminal”, and because of the music video made for it. Her music is fundamentally based on very personal poetic verses, accompanied by often aggressive and progressive production, rooted equally in early jazz, pop, electronica, and alt-rock. A member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Apple is a vegan.
Erica Abi Wright : Erykah Badu (born February 26, 1971), better know by her stage name Erykah Badu American R&B, soul, and hip hop singer and songwriter, whose work encompasses elements of jazz. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, and for her eccentric, cerebral musical stylings and sense of fashion. Early in her career she was recognizable for wearing very large and colorful headwraps. For her musical sensibilities, she has often been compared to jazz great Billie Holiday. She was a core member of the Soulquarians, and is also an actress having appeared in a number of films playing a diverse range of supporting roles in movies such as “Blues Brothers 2000,” “Cider House Rules,” and “House of D.”
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country, pop, folk, and blues into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a noted political activist.
She performs with the Rolling Stones, and has sung duets with Mick Jagger. Crow’s recordings have appeared on the soundtracks to Cars, Point Break, The X-Files, Big Daddy, Crossroads, Home of the Brave, Kalifornia, Elizabethtown, and Stone Cold.
Sheryl Crow Official Site
A Tribute To Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow : Sheryl Crow
10,000 Maniacs : Natalie Merchant 10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career.
Natalie Anne O’Shea Merchant (born October 26, 1963 in Jamestown, New York, U.S.
Natalie Merchant Official Site
Jewel Kilcher : Jewel (born May 23, 1974) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, poet and philanthropist, generally known just by her first name, Jewel. She has received three Grammy Award nominations. Her debut album Pieces of You became one of the best selling debut albums of all time going platinum twelve times.
Jewel learned to play the guitar while on scholarship at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where she majored in operatic voice. She started writing songs at the age of seventeen.
For a time, she was poverty-stricken and lived in her van while traveling about the country doing street performances and small gigs. She gained some recognition by singing at the Innerchange Coffeehouse and Java Joe’s in San Diego, California. Her friend Steve Poltz’s band, The Rugburns, played the same venues. Jewel later collaborated with Poltz on some of her songs, including ” You Were Meant For Me.” (He also appeared in the second, best-known, video for this song.) The Rugburns opened for Jewel on her Tiny Lights tour in 1997. Poltz appeared in Jewel’s band on the Spirit World Tour 1999 playing guitar.
Jewel Official Site
A Night Without Armor: Poems by Jewel, ISBN 0061073628
Pieces Of You
Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including soul, jazz and R&B.
Winehouse’s 2003 debut album Frank did well, both commercially and critically, in her native Britain. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album Back to Black led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night and becoming the first British singer to win five Grammys, including three of the “Big Four”: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On February 14, 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She has won the Ivor Novello Award twice, among other prestigious distinctions.
Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a Grammy-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.
She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads. Some of her most popular songs include “Angel”, “Building a Mystery”, “Adia”, “Possession”, “Fallen”, “I Will Remember You”, and “World on Fire”. As of 2006, she has sold over 26 million albums worldwide. Her best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won four Juno Awards and two Grammy Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians in the late 1990s.
Lisa Anne Loeb (born 11 March 1968) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. In 1994, she had her first hit with the song “Stay (I Missed You)”. The song today still remains her biggest hit and most well-known song. Recently, she has moved into other endeavors, such as television. In 2006, she had her own reality TV show on the E! channel.
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and television chat show host. Best-known for her songs, “Smile” and “LDN”, Allen is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen also hosts her own BBC Three talk show Lily Allen and Friends.
Her single “Smile” reached number one on the UK singles charts in July 2006. In December 2006, her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag. In 2007, it was nominated for the award of Best British Album at the Brit Awards and for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of “Best Alternative Music Album”.
Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and occasional actress of Anglo-American and Bengali descent.
Jones’ career was launched with her 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, a contemporary pop album with a sensual, plaintive soul/folk/country tinge, that sold over twenty million copies worldwide and received five Grammy Awards, with Jones winning “Best New Artist”. Her second album, Feels like Home, was released in 2004, clocking more than a million sales in the first week of U.S. release. In 2007, she released her third album, Not Too Late, which debuted at number one on the world charts. She has become one of the most successful recording artists of the decade, racking up sales of more than 16 million records in the US and 39 million records worldwide. She is the daughter of musical maestro Ravi Shankar and half sister of sitarist Anoushka Shankar.
The Corrs are a Celtic folk rock group from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea (vocals, tin whistle); Sharon (violin, vocals); Caroline (drums, percussion, bodhrán, vocals); and Jim (guitar, keyboards, vocals).
The Corrs came to international prominence with their performance at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Since then, they have released five studio albums and numerous singles, which have reached platinum in many countries. Talk on Corners, their most successful album to date, reached multi-platinum status in Australia and the UK.
The Corrs have been actively involved in philanthropic activities. They have performed in numerous charity concerts such as the Prince’s Trust in 2004 and Live 8 alongside Bono in 2005. The same year, they were awarded honourary MBEs for their contributions to music and charity. The Corrs are on hiatus because Sharon, Jim, and Caroline are raising families, while Andrea is pursuing a solo career.
Poe : Annie Decatur Danielewski (born March 23, 1968), professionally known as Poe, first hit the modern rock charts in the mid-1990s. She is the daughter of Polish film director Tad Danielewski and his wife, Priscilla Machold. Poe is also the sister of author Mark Z. Danielewski.
Poe’s musical style is an unusual blend of folk, rock, and electronica elements backing intimate lyrical compositions. Poe appeared in the movie Gossip performing the song “My Lips are Sealed” (a cover of The Go-Go’s’ “Our Lips Are Sealed”), and as a CGI character, Mary Magdalene/Plague, in the PlayStation game, Apocalypse. Apocalypse also featured an alternate version of her song, “Control”, later released on Haunted. In November of 2007 Poe began collecting MP3 recordings of dream accounts on her website Repoezessed.
Regina Spektor (Russian: Регина Спектор; born February 18, 1980) is a Soviet Union-born Russian American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City’s East Village.
Spektor was originally interested only in classical music, but later became interested in hip hop, rock and punk as well. Although she had always made up songs around the house, Spektor first became interested in more formal songwriting during a visit to Israel with the Nesiya Institute in her teenage years when she attracted attention from the other children on the trip for the songs she made up while hiking and realized she had an aptitude for songwriting.
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