Laurie Anderson
Composer, Artist, and Musician
October 4-10, the week's music events: Jay-Z tour, MTV Africa Music Awards, more (Agenda)...and concert promotion company Live Nation for the same purpose. The bill also includes American singers Laurie Anderson and Rufus Wainwright, and English singer Antony Hegarty. U2 is only scheduled to play with other performers on the... In this article: Jay-Z, U2, R&B, The Blueprint 3, AIDS, Scarlett Johansson, Nairobi, Kenya, Live Nation, Antony Hegarty, and Wyclef Jean |
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Wikipedia | September 15, 2009
Josh Wood
...on the fourth and fifth anniversary of the Iraq War featuring R.E.M., Scissor Sisters, Rufus Wainwright, Margaret Cho, Moby, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Antony and the Johnsons, Norah Jones and Damien Rice. Funds were donated to Iraq...
In this article: Lou Reed, Margaret Cho, David Bowie, New York City, Iraq War, Out magazine, Ricky Gervais, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Damien Rice
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SPIN.com - News | September 15, 2009
Courtney Love, U2, ScarJo Lead Lineup for Benefit Concert
...EST. The lineup also includes plenty of other do-gooders, including Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Laurie Anderson, Turtles' Flo & Eddie, the Pogues' Shane McGowan, and punk icon Lydia Lunch. Gavin...
In this article: Courtney Love, U2, AIDS, Gavin Friday, Rufus Wainwright, Benefit concert, New York City, Global Fund, and Malaria
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LiveDaily News | November 05, 2008
Wainwright, McGarrigle holiday concert announced
...mother, Kate McGarrigle, and her sister Anna, who perform together, will welcome Emmylou Harris [ tickets ], Lou Reed [ tickets ], Laurie Anderson [ tickets ], Jimmy Fallon, Teddy Thompson, Justin Bond, Sloan Wainwright and a few surprise...
In this article: Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Kate McGarrigle, Cancer, Teddy Thompson, Jimmy Fallon, Lou Reed, Sloan Wainwright, and Emmylou Harris
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Independent.co.uk - Music | March 19, 2009
Wainwright's first opera to get world premiere in UK
...the Mercury Prize winners Elbow and the Hall� Orchestra, and the first-ever full-length concert featuring Lou Reed and his new wife, Laurie Anderson. Wainwright has spent the past year writing and orchestrating the piece, which will be...
In this article: Rufus Wainwright, Elbow, Guy Garvey, Tony Wilson, Lou Reed, UK, and The Crying Light
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Pop Candy | December 11, 2008
Catching the holiday spirit with Rufus Wainwright
...until last night, and it might have been a life-changing moment. She delivered a mesmerizing spoken-word piece that invoked politics, time and the spirit of the season. And though the entire McGarrigle/Wainwright family is a pleasure to...
In this article: Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Carnegie Hall, New Year's Eve, Little Drummer Boy, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Kiki and Herb, and Linda Thompson
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Guardian Unlimited | March 19, 2009
Manchester festival makes room for Elbow, Halle and Kraftwerk
...for their hit Tour de France, Kraftwerk will perform at the velodrome. The festival ends with the only UK appearance of Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed performing together. In between there will be works by artists including Rufus Wainwright,...
In this article: Elbow, Rufus Wainwright, Kraftwerk, Prima Donna, Jeremy Deller, Lou Reed, Carbon, and Zaha Hadid
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Description from Wikipedia:
Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
She has also invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.
On April 12, 2008 Laurie Anderson married longtime companion Lou Reed in a private ceremony in Boulder, Colorado.
- Name At Birth:
- Laura Phillips Anderson
- Birth Date:
- June 05, 1947
- Occupation:
- Musician, Performance artist
- Instrument Played:
- Percussion
- Synclavier
- Violin
- Vocals
- Record Label:
- Nonesuch/Elektra Records
- Warner Bros. Records
- Years Active:
- 1976–present
- Associated With:
- Janice Pendarvis
- Website:
- http://www.laurieanderson.com/
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