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Ani DiFranco Bio
Ani DiFranco is a songwriter,
vocalist and guitarist perpetually on the move. From the raw "folk punk"
of her early albums through the jazz/funk grooves she created during her
years touring with a five-piece band to the twists and turns of her
current work as a solo artist, Ani's restless creativity continually
leads her and her listeners into ever more exciting territory.
Born in Buffalo, New York, DiFranco was already singing and playing
guitar in public before she was old enough to drive. As a teenager, the
poems she'd been writing in "long skinny columns" soon evolved into
lyrics, and music became a way for the teenager to talk about the things
that mattered most to her: the power dynamics of romantic entanglements,
the fragmentation of her family, the choices she watched her friends
making, and the state of life in her hometown and her country.
The early 1990s brought a temporary relocation to New York and classes
in poetry and politics at the New School, but her real education came on
weekends, as she hit the road with increasing frequency and growing
confidence, developing her signature percussive finger picking and
dynamic range in order to grab and hold the attention of noisy bar
crowds. Even the need to fill time while re-tuning became an opportunity
to improvise off-the-cuff stories about whatever had happened during the
course of her day, which became yet another hallmark of her style. After
just about every one of her funny, outspoken, intimate gigs, she'd leave
behind a fresh batch of converts eager to spread the word to everyone
they knew, via cassettes at first and then CDs. Rather than waiting for
some A&R bigwig to sign her, Ani simply created her own record label,
Righteous Babe, eventually turning down legions of potential deals when
she realized they had nothing to offer that she couldn't provide
herself. In the process, the born performer began to learn her way
around the recording studio, too, gradually developing her own
innovative means to convey the spontaneity, intensity and wit of her
live concerts on disc.
Ani DiFranco's career has been full of surprises — for her, and for the
rest of us — and she's no stranger to change, both sudden and slow. But
some things remain unchanged, like her commitment to speaking the truth,
as she sees it, without fear or concession. Bruce Cockburn recently
observed in Performing Songwriter that Ani considers it part of her job
description "to try and reflect real life in [her] songs. The life of
the streets; the life of nations; the lives of people coping with power
or its absence, looking for joy through the loneliness and pain and the
complexities of relationship; the life of the spirit. All these are the
stuff of human experience, and human experience is what we all share."
She does so with two basic instruments, both of which are also constants
in her ever-evolving world: her trusty guitar and her unforgettable
voice. Vanity Fair describes the latter as "astonishing... coolly,
permanently urgent, tugging at the sleeve or close at the ear, like the
murmur of a lover who knows every last secret and decides to stay."
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Dates
Ani DiFranco
8.18.06
Marymoor Park
Redmond, WA
Ani DiFranco
9.22.06
Copley Symphony Hall
San Diego, CA
Ani DiFranco
9.23.06
Orpheum Theatre - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Ani DiFranco
11.16.06
Keswick Theatre
Glenside, PA
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