Artist: Natalie Merchant
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
The House Carpenter's Daughter
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Ophelia
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Tigerlily
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Motherland
Year:
Tracks: 12
First rising to fame at the helm of the popular folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant after enjoyed regular greater success as a solo performer as her mournful vocals and literate, socially witting songs established her among the leading female performers in present-day pop. Born October 26, 1963 in Jamestown, NY, Merchant joined 10,000 Maniacs at the geezerhood of 17, promptly decorous the band's driving artistic force; after a pair of successful independent releases, they signed to Elektra in 1985, and in the days to follow emerged among the about popular acts in alternative rock, shooting into the Top 40 with 1987's superb In My Tribe. However, round the time of recording 1992's Our Time in Eden, Merchant gave her bandmates deuce long time notice, and after the release of 1994's MTV Unplugged publicly proclaimed she was departure their ranks. Her 1995 solo debut, Tigerlily, debuted just shy of the Top Ten, grading a hit with the unmarried "Funfair; " it was followed in 1998 by Ophelia. Live in Concert, recorded at New York's Neil Simon Theatre, appeared a class later. A large social militant, Merchant as well regularly campaigned in the diagnose of such hot-button issues as fauna rights, domestic violence, and homelessness. In 2000 Merchant toured with her band and members of progressive kinsfolk group The Horseflies playacting folk traditionals. She returned with the Motherland LP in 2001. Two days later Merchant left Elektra and formed the Myth America to issue House Carpenter's Daughter, a assembling of traditional and contemporaneous tribe music performed on the 2000 tour. 2004 proverb Rhino release Campfire Songs, a 10,000 Maniacs retrospective, and a year later Merchant tallied her ten-year solo career with Retrospective.
