Ani DiFranco

   
Artist: Ani DiFranco

   Genre(s): 
Alternative
   Rock
   Experimental
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Canon (cd2)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 18


   
 Canon (cd1)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 18


   
 Reprieve

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 Knuckle Down

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Educated Guess

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Evolve

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Up Up Up Up Up Up

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 To The Teeth

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 Little Plastic Castle

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


   
 Living In Clip [CD 2]

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 15


   
 Living In Clip [CD 1]

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 16


   
 Dilate

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


   
 Not A Pretty Girl

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 14


   
 Puddle Dive

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12


   
 Like I Said: Songs 1990-91

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 15


   
 Not So Soft

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 14


   
 Ani DiFranco

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 13

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A folkie in punk's wear, Ani DiFranco battled successfully against the Goliath of incorporated stone to emerge as one of the to the highest degree influential and inspirational furor heroines of the nineties. A resolute follower of D.I.Y. ethos, DiFranco released her records through her have indie label, Righteous Babe, slowly merely steadily building a god-fearing grassroots following on the forte of a inexorable circuit docket; an ardent libber and an open bisexual, her songs tackled issues like brassica napus, miscarriage, and sexism with brainwave and pity, the music's empowering attitude and angriness toughened by the poignant candidness of singer/songwriter confessionalism.


Born in Buffalo, NY, on September 23, 1970, DiFranco began her calling at the years of nine-spot, when her guitar instructor helped her solid ground her number 1 gig -- performing a set of Beatles covers -- at an area cafe. Befriended by the likes of Suzanne Vega and Michelle Shocked, she by and by gave up music to survey ballet, merely at the age of 14 returned to the guitar and began composing her get-go songs. A year later, disoriented from her crumbling family structure, she left wing home plate, living with friends while making the rounds of the Buffalo tribe clubhouse racing circuit.


By the eld of 19 DiFranco had written over one C original songs, and later briefly perusal fine art she relocated to New York City to further her melodic aspirations; besieged by requests from fans for tapes of her performances, she recorded a demo and pressed 500 copies of a self-titled cassette to sell at shows. The mag tape -- a Spartan acoustic ethnic music accumulation of intensely personal essays on failed relationships and grammatical gender inequities -- rapidly sold out, and in 1990 DiFranco founded Righteous Babe to bettor circularize her recordings, which were easy airing across the country on the forte of a substantial pipeline next.


In 1991, after issuance the assured Non So Soft, DiFranco hit the road alone, touring the nation in her Volkswagen and playing gigs wherever she could find them; her cultus blossomed, and her decided image -- shaven head, tattoos, and body piercings -- before long became the de rigueur depend for her fans as easily. As albums like 1992's Imperfectly and 1993's Muddle Dive expanded her melodic ambitions as well as her following, DiFranco became the content of considerable major-label interest, til now she firmly jilted all offers as Righteous Babe grew to become a highly workable patronage venture.


DiFranco continued playing over 200 dates a year, and presently even the mainstream media took observance of her cottage industry music; after 1994's virtuoso Out of Range, she exploded with the following year's Not a Pretty Girl, which garnered observation from outlets ranging from CNN to The New York Times. A sprawl, eclectic work particularisation a heated up love affair with a man (much to the mortification of her lesbian followers), 1996's Dilate fifty-fifty debuted in the Top 100 of the Billboard charts, a stunning accomplishment for an independent button. The live set Living in Clip followed in 1997.


Early in 1998, DiFranco released the studio apartment movement Little Plastic Castle; her most musically divers button yet, it also was her highest-charting album to date, and set the leg for the release of Up Up Up Up Up Up the following class. Another new LP, To the Teeth, appeared in 1999 as well, and in mid-2000 came the release of the ragbag compiling Get around Set. Revelling: Reckoning appeared in spring 2001. In 2002, DiFranco trudged on; a road warrior at heart, in September of that year she issued the double-disc So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter, her number one live album since 1997's Living in Clip. The So Much Shouting put captured handpicked favorites by DiFranco and trey previously unreleased songs.


The following year's Acquire added casimir Funk, jazz, and Latin elements to the ruffle, spell 2004's Enlightened Guess was performed completely by DiFranco. Knuckle Down, co-produced by Joe Henry, arrived in 2005. In 2006, the one-eighth in her Official Bootleg serial, Carnegie Hall (recorded live on April 2, 2002), was released in the spring, and then, shortly after the isaac Bashevis Singer proclaimed she was pregnant, her studio album Hiatus came stunned that August.