1. Emilie Autumn Liddell was born on September 22,1979 and is an American singer-songwriter, poet, author, and violinist.
38 Facts About Emilie Autumn
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Emilie Autumn appeared in singer Courtney Love's backing band on her 2004 America's Sweetheart tour and returned to Europe.
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Emilie Autumn released the 2006 album Opheliac with the German label Trisol Music Group.
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Emilie Autumn later left Trisol to join New York based The End Records in 2009 and release Opheliac in the United States, where previously it had only been available as an import.
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Emilie Autumn was born in Los Angeles, California, on September 22,1979.
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Emilie Autumn began writing her own music and poetry at age thirteen or fourteen, though she never planned to sing any of her songs.
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Emilie Autumn studied under various teachers and attended Indiana University in Bloomington, but left after two years there, because she disagreed with the prevailing views on individuality and classical music.
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Emilie Autumn believed that neither the audience nor the original composer would be insulted by the clothing and appearance of the performer.
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Emilie Autumn became unhappy with the changes done to her songs, and decided to break away from the label and create her own independent record label, Traitor Records.
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On February 26,2003, Emilie Autumn released her concept album Enchant, which spanned multiple musical styles: "new-age, pop and trip hop chamber music".
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Emilie Autumn labeled it as "fantasy rock", which dealt with "dreams and stories and ghosts and faeries who'll bite your head off if you dare to touch them".
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Emilie Autumn's bandmates consisted of cellist Joey Harvey, drummer Heath Jansen, guitarist Ben Lehl, and bassist Jimmy Vanaria, who worked on the electronics.
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Emilie Autumn began work on her concept album Opheliac in August 2004, and recorded it at Mad Villain Studios in Chicago.
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In late 2005, Emilie Autumn recorded vocals and violin for "The Gates of Eternity" from Attrition's 2008 album All Mine Enemys Whispers: The Story of Mary Ann Cotton, a concept album focusing on the Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton.
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Emilie Autumn later protested the release of the song, claiming that it was unfinished, "altered without her permission", and had been intended only as a possible collaboration with Martin Bowes.
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In January 2006, Emilie Autumn performed a song from the album, "Misery Loves Company", on WGN, before the album's release by the German label Trisol Music Group in September.
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Emilie Autumn released the limited-edition, preview EP Opheliac through her own label, Traitor Records, in spring 2006; while the Opheliac EPs were being shipped, Autumn claimed that her offices had been robbed, causing the delay in the album release and the shipping of the EPs.
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At one time, Emilie Autumn did have plans to film a music video for her song "Liar", which included "bloody bathtubs".
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Emilie Autumn performed live at the German musical events Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Luna Festival in 2007.
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Emilie Autumn contributed backing vocals and violin to the track "Dry" by Die Warzau and made an appearance in the band's music video for "Born Again".
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Emilie Autumn played violin on the song "UR A WMN NOW" from OTEP's 2009 album, Smash the Control Machine.
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Emilie Autumn has said that the intent of the book was to show "there's very little difference from asylums for ladies in 1841 and the ones for us now," and that the subject of mental illness remains misunderstood.
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Emilie Autumn appeared at the 2011 Harvest Festival in Australia, and had planned to debut two songs from Fight Like a Girl during those performances.
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On June 13,2012, Emilie Autumn announced on her blog the release date of Fight Like a Girl, which was on July 24 of the same year.
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In 2013, Emilie Autumn produced and starred in her first ever music video, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, for the song "Fight Like a Girl".
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In 2014, it was announced that Emilie Autumn would be appearing at a handful of dates on the 2014 Vans Warped Tour with an installation called "The Asylum Experience", which will include music, burlesque, circus sideshow attractions and theater.
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On November 3,2021, Emilie Autumn released the single "The Passenger", a cover of the song by Iggy Pop, marking her first official release in three years.
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Emilie Autumn enjoys the works of Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and husband Robert, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Emilie Autumn incorporates sounds resembling Victorian machinery such as locomotives, which she noted was "sort of a steampunk thing".
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Emilie Autumn takes inspiration for her songs from her life experiences and mixes in "layers and layers of references, connections, other stories and metaphors".
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Emilie Autumn has variously described her music and style as "Psychotic Vaudeville Burlesque", "Victoriandustrial'", a term she coined, and glam rock because of her use of glitter onstage.
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Emilie Autumn's intention is for the live shows to be a statement of "anti-repression" and empowerment.
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Emilie Autumn keeps a ritual of drawing a heart on her cheek as a symbol of protection.
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Emilie Autumn became vegetarian at age eleven after being unable to rationalize why she should eat farm animals but not her pet dog; in her late-teens, she became vegan.
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Emilie Autumn has stated she believes that there is a link between the treatment of women and animals in society.
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In 2021, Emilie Autumn adopted a Toy Manchester Terrier, who she named Darjeeling.
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Emilie Autumn has endorsed companies such as Manic Panic and Samson Tech.
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Emilie Autumn has bipolar disorder, which she has discussed in a number of interviews.