1. Baby Dee was born on 1953 and is an American performance artist, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio.
20 Facts About Baby Dee
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Ten years later, after Dee had begun her transition into life as a woman, she left her job at the church and returned to her earlier occupation as a performance artist.
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Baby Dee performed as an accordion-playing bilateral hermaphrodite in Coney Island, leading to a stint as the bandleader for the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus.
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Baby Dee became known for a street act in which she played harp while atop a high-rise tricycle in Manhattan.
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Never having envisioned herself as a recording artist, Baby Dee gave Hegarty songs she had written, in hopes that she would perform them.
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Tibet contacted Baby Dee, encouraging her to record an album for his label, Durtro.
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In 2001, Baby Dee released her debut album, Little Window.
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The album was composed and produced by Baby Dee and featured only her, singing and playing piano on seven songs, bookended by two accordion instrumentals.
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Baby Dee released her second album, Love's Small Song, in 2002.
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Baby Dee even set the entire album against a recording of birdsong.
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Unfortunately, Baby Dee's tree climbing career was cut short when a tree she was doctoring fell on a customer's home.
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Soon, though, Baby Dee came into luck when she met musicians Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney, who were both fans of her work.
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In 2008, Baby Dee released her third official studio album, Safe Inside the Day.
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In 2010, Baby Dee released her fourth album, A Book of Songs for Anne Marie, a re-recording of a limited-edition book and CD originally released by Durtro in 2004.
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In 2011, Baby Dee released her fifth album, Regifted Light.
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In 2015, Baby Dee released her sixth album, I Am a Stick, on Tin Angel Records.
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Baby Dee has worked with Anohni and the Johnsons, Andrew WK, and many other artists on the New York City scene.
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Baby Dee has toured extensively with Current 93, playing piano and harp.
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Baby Dee has toured with Marc Almond and The Dresden Dolls.
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Baby Dee's sister, Mary Norris, is a copy editor at The New Yorker.