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Natalie Anne Merchant (born October 26, 1963 in Jamestown, New York, USA) is a versatile professional musician. She co-founded 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and began her solo career in 1993.
Career
Merchant co-founded and fronted the successful band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 (see 1981 in music), but left the band in 1993 (see 1993 in music) commencing a successful solo career. (She has been referred to as "the Poet Laureate of pop", or "the Emily Dickinson of pop".) Her debut solo album Tigerlily (1995) had three top-40 singles: "Carnival", "Jealousy", and "Wonder". In 1997, she first performed "Planctus," a song for voice and piano written for her by Philip Glass. In 1998, Merchant released Ophelia, supported by co-headlining Lilith Fair and the following year released Live in Concert.
...and it will get even shorter if more personal things keep being added.
Discography
- Tigerlily (1995)
- Ophelia (1998)
- Live in Concert (1999)
- Motherland (2001)
- The House Carpenter's Daughter (2003)
- Retrospective: 1995-2005 (2005)
Discography with 10,000 Maniacs
- Human Conflict Number Five (1982)
- Secrets of the I Ching (1983)
- The Wishing Chair (1985)
- In My Tribe (1987)
- Blind Man's Zoo (1989)
- Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983 (1990)
- Our Time in Eden (1992)
- MTV Unplugged (1993)
- Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings (2004)
Samples
- Download sample of "San Andreas Fault" from Tigerlily
See also
External links
- NatalieMerchant.com (official site)
- Natalie Merchant at the Ectophile's Guide to Good Music
- Natalie Merchant at IMDb
- Natalie Merchant 119 (fan site)
- Natalie Merchant Online (fan site)
- Natalie Merchant discography at MusicBrainz
- Launch's page on Merchant
- 1963 births
- Living people
- People from Jamestown, New York
- 10,000 Maniacs
- American pop pianists
- American female singers
- American record producers
- American women
- Feminist artists
- Hammond organ players
- Musical activists
- American pop singers
- American singer-songwriters
- Vegetarians
- Irish-Americans
- Sicilian-Americans
- French Americans
- German-Americans