Ani DiFranco
Overview
Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

-winning singer, guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.
DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

, to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

. She started playing Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

 covers at local bars and busking
Busking
Street performance or busking is the practice of performing in public places, for gratuities, which are generally in the form of money and edibles...

 with her guitar teacher, Michael Meldrum, at the age of nine.

In 1989, DiFranco started her own record company, Righteous Records
Righteous Babe Records
Righteous Babe Records is an American independent record label. It was created by progressive folksinger Ani DiFranco in 1990 to release her own songs in lieu of being beholden to a mainstream record company.-History:...

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Quotations

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

Animal

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

Grand Canyon

Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.

My IQ; one of the mottos for the 2000 book :w:Empire (book)|Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

They're gonna be mad at us.They're gonna be mad at me and you.They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.

Shameless

I used to be a superhero.No one could touch me, not even myself.You are like a phone booth that I somehow stumbled into,And now look at me, I am just like everybody else.

Superhero

I am still praying for revolution.

Fixing Her Hair

Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.

Lost Woman Song

Because the world owes me nothingAnd we owe each other the world.

Joyful Girl

 
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