Joanna Caroline Newsom was born on January 18,1982 and is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
32 Facts About Joanna Newsom
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Joanna Newsom would receive wider exposure with the release of Ys, which charted at number 134 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for a 2007 Shortlist Music Prize.
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Joanna Newsom released two further albums: Have One on Me, and Divers, the latter of which outsold all of her previous albums.
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Joanna Newsom has been noted by critics for her unique musical style, sometimes characterized as progressive folk, and for her prominent use of harp instrumentation.
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Joanna Newsom has appeared as an actress with roles in the television series Portlandia and in the 2014 film Inherent Vice.
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Joanna Newsom was born on January 18,1982 in Grass Valley, California.
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Joanna Newsom was raised in Nevada City along with her older brother, Peter, and younger sister, Emily.
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Joanna Newsom is the second cousin, twice removed, of Gavin Newsom, Governor of California.
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Joanna Newsom's father played the guitar, and her mother was a classically trained pianist who played the hammered dulcimer, the autoharp and conga drums.
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Joanna Newsom attended a Waldorf school where she studied theater and learned to memorize and recite long poems.
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At the age of five, Joanna Newsom asked her parents if she could learn to play the harp.
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Joanna Newsom dropped out in order to focus on her music and returned to live with family in Nevada City.
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Joanna Newsom gave a copy of the CD to the owner of Drag City, his record label.
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Drag City signed Joanna Newsom and released her debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender in 2004.
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Shortly thereafter, Joanna Newsom toured with Devendra Banhart and Vetiver to promote the album and made an early UK appearance at the Green Man Festival in Wales.
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Joanna Newsom appeared as a guest musician on Vetiver's 2004 self-titled album, and the following year, on Vashti Bunyan's Lookaftering.
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Also in 2009, Joanna Newsom appeared as a guest harpist on the Moore Brothers' album Aptos and played piano on Golden Shoulders' Get Reasonable.
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On February 11,2010, Pitchfork Media reported that Newsom would be the subject of a tribute book titled Visions of Joanna Newsom which was published by Roan Press and features a contribution from author and publisher Dave Eggers.
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Joanna Newsom was selected by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.
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In December 2010, a tribute album of Joanna Newsom covers was released as a digital download.
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Joanna Newsom was selected by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he curated in March 2012 in Minehead, England.
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In late 2011, Joanna Newsom contributed vocals to "The Muppet Show Theme" for The Muppets and appeared on the cover of the 10th anniversary issue of Under the Radar with Robin Pecknold.
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Joanna Newsom began 2012 with television appearances on Austin City Limits and Portlandia.
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Joanna Newsom performed a new song at the concert tentatively titled The Diver's Wife, a love story concerning pearl hunting, which would eventually become the title track from her next album, Divers.
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Joanna Newsom appeared on a track titled "Kindness be Conceived" on Thao and the Get Down Stay Down's album We the Common, released in February 2013.
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In March 2013, Joanna Newsom contributed to the song "The Man Who Ran the Town" from the album Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear by British skinhead band Hard Skin.
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Joanna Newsom appeared in and narrated the 2014 film Inherent Vice, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Joanna Newsom is a soprano, and has expressed disappointment at comments that her singing is "childlike", preferring to call her performance style "untrainable".
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Joanna Newsom has cited Vladimir Nabokov and Ernest Hemingway as influences on her lyrics.
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From 2004 to 2007, Joanna Newsom dated Smog frontman Bill Callahan.
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Joanna Newsom provided guest vocals on her song 'Only Skin' from her second studio album Ys.
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Joanna Newsom met comedian Andy Samberg in 2006 at one of her concerts.