Fiona apple real name
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Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter. She released five albums from 1996 to 2020, all of which reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Apple has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award.
The youngest daughter of the actor Brandon Maggart, Apple was born in New York City and was raised alternating between her mother's home in New York and her father's in Los Angeles. Classically trained on piano as a child, she began composing her own songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, Tidal, containing songs written when she was in her teens, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single "Criminal". She followed with When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold
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by David N
I first heard Fiona Apple on an alternative radio station in NY singing "Sleep to Dream." I was familiar with what she looked like prior to that and was pleasantly surprised to hear such a profoundly heartfelt and powerful voice coming from such a tiny person. Her rich smoky voice combined with her soulful music and intense, candid, poetic lyrics was haunting as well as inspiring. Immediately, I wanted to know more about such an artist that wanted to share herself so openly with the world. The more I found out the more I wanted to learn.
Fiona Apple was born in New York City on September 13, 1977. Her parents, Brandon Maggart and Diane McAfee, both in the arts named "Fiona" for the Cyd Charisse character in the 1954 musical Brigadoon. Her mother, was an actress/singer turned chef and her father an actor. They had two children but never married. They split up when Fiona was only 4. She was raised with he
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Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart, or Fiona Apple (born September 13, 1977) is an American musician. Her song Criminal, which was on her first album, Tidal, won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.[1] Since then Apple has released three studio albums.
Early life
[change | change source]Apple was born in New York City to singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. She started psychotherapy when she was 11. When she was 12 she was raped outside the apartment she lived in.[2] She had obsessive-compulsive disorder.[3]
Career
[change | change source]In 1994 Apple gave demo tape containing the songs "Never Is a Promise", "Not One of Those Times", and "He Takes a Taxi" to her friend, who was the babysitter of music publicist Kathryn Schenker.[4] Schenker passed the tape on to Sony Music executive Andy Slater. Slater signed Apple to the label. In 1996 Apple's first album Tidal was released. Apple won the MTV Video Music Award for "Best New Artist" for her song "Sleep to Dream" in 1997. Apple fa
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