Phoebe Legere is a Juilliard-educated composer, soprano, pianist and accordionist, painter, poet, and a film maker.
14 Facts About Phoebe Legere
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Phoebe Legere plays seven musical instruments and has released 15 CDs of original music.
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Phoebe Legere has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS's City Arts, WNYC's Soundcheck, Charlie Rose and in films by Troma, Island Pictures, Rosa von Praunheim, Ela Troyano and Ivan Galietti, Abel Ferrara, Jonathan Demme, Ivan Reitman and many others.
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Phoebe Legere is of Acadian and Abenaki descent through her father.
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Phoebe Legere is a standard bearer of the Acadian and Abenaki renaissance in America.
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Phoebe Legere began piano lessons at age 3, and learned the techniques of oil painting and draftsmanship when she was age 5, and by age 9 was a professional musician.
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Phoebe Legere had her debut at Carnegie Hall at age 16.
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Phoebe Legere was interviewed afterward by David Behrman, an American composer and pioneer of computer music, revealing that her first job was resident composer for The Wooster Group and discussing in detail their influence on her art making.
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Phoebe Legere is Founder and archivist for the New York Underground Museum.
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In 2015, Phoebe Legere appeared on It's Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise, an HBO documentary produced by Lena Dunham about Hilary Knight who is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise series of children's books.
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Phoebe Legere was touring again in 2017, bringing art and music to the children in low income communities on behalf of her nonprofit Foundation for New American Art, founded in 2016.
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Phoebe Legere, who has Native American heritage, has been an outspoken advocate for female, gay, Native American, and universal civil rights.
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Phoebe Legere wrote and starred in the play Speed Queen: The Joe Carstairs Story, performing as multiple characters in a musical about the life of Marion Barbara 'Joe' Carstairs, the wealthy British power boat racer known for her speed and eccentric lifestyle.
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Phoebe Legere performed this transdisciplinary play seven times between March 7 and March 24,2018, at Dixon Place, in the main performance space of the New York City theater organization dedicated to the development of artwork from a broad range of performers and artists.