1. Allison Russell released her first solo album, Outside Child, in 2021.
27 Facts About Allison Russell
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Allison Russell has received a total of eight Grammy nominations, four Canadian Folk Music Awards and two Juno Awards and has been named to the long list for the Polaris Music Prize in 2021, and shortlisted for the 2024 award.
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Allison Russell was born in Montreal to a Grenadian father and a Scottish-Canadian teenage single mother.
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Allison Russell's mother struggled with postpartum depression and schizophrenia, and Russell was initially placed in foster care.
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Allison Russell's mother regained custody of her after marrying a white-supremacist American expatriate.
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At the age of 15, Allison Russell ran away from home, eventually moving to Vancouver in 1998.
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Allison Russell was initially a member of the Vancouver-based Celtic folk band Fear of Drinking.
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In 2003, Allison Russell formed the band Po' Girl with The Be Good Tanyas member Trish Klein.
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Allison Russell recorded seven albums with the band: Po' Girl, Vagabond Lullabies, B-side Recordings, Home to You, Deer in the Night, Live, and Follow Your Bliss.
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Allison Russell penned "If Wishes Were Gold", the only original on the album.
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In 2018, Allison Russell joined the musical collective Our Native Daughters alongside fellow musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Amythyst Kiah.
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Allison Russell was featured alongside the rest of the group in a Smithsonian Channel documentary titled Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters.
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Allison Russell released a cover of "Everything I Wanted" by Billie Eilish as a single in February 2021.
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In March 2021, Allison Russell released "Nightflyer" as the first single from her album Outside Child.
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Allison Russell released the singles "Montreal" and "The Runner" ahead of the album's full release.
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On May 21,2021, Allison Russell released her first solo album Outside Child under Fantasy Records.
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On May 28,2021, Allison Russell made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry.
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Allison Russell performed several songs from Outside Child live on CBS This Morning Saturday on July 24,2021.
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On September 25,2021, Allison Russell performed at the annual Farm Aid event in Hartford, Connecticut.
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In November 2021, Allison Russell received three Grammy nominations.
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In March 2023, Allison Russell organized Love Rising, an all-star benefit concert, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville in response to Tennessee's anti-LGBT+ legislation.
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In November 2023, Allison Russell received four Grammy nominations for it.
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In July 2024, Allison Russell provided the voice of Teddi Barra in the Country Bear Musical Jamboree at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
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In September 2024, it was announced that Allison Russell would be making her Broadway debut, performing the role of Persephone in the musical Hadestown.
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In 2013, Allison Russell married her Birds of Chicago bandmate Jeremy Lindsay.
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Allison Russell stated that "Persephone", a song from her debut album, was written about her first love, a woman she met during her teenage years.
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Allison Russell signed the October 2023 Artists4Ceasefire open letter addressed to President Joe Biden during the Israeli retribution on Gaza for the attacks of October 7.