20 Facts About Santigold

Santigold's awards include "Best Breakthrough Artist" at the 2008 NME Awards, and the Vanguard Award at 2009 ASCAP Awards.

Santigold attended Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, and later attended college at Wesleyan University, where she double-majored in music and African-American studies.

Santigold obtained her pseudonym in the 1990s after a friend gave it to her as a nickname.

Santigold finished the tour opening for Beastie Boys for three concerts on their get-out-the-vote Swing State Tour.

Santigold finished the second leg of the tour in August 2009 at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago with Billboard noting that she "delivered a bright set and drew a headliner-sized audience" for a late afternoon concert.

Santigold announced the follow-up to Santogold would be out in spring 2012.

Santigold described Master of My Make-Believe as "sonically eclectic but with some epic curveballs thrown into the mix".

Santigold then went on tour and opened a few shows on the US leg of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' I'm with You Tour.

In February 2016, Santigold released an interactive music video for the song, which allowed viewers to insert themselves in the video, furthering the song's message about self-absorption and promotion in the social media age.

Santigold released the dancehall-inspired mixtape I Don't Want: The Gold Fire Sessions on July 27,2018, after announcing it the day before.

Santigold embarked on the 10 Years Golder Tour for the tenth anniversary of her debut self-titled album in 2019.

Santigold's song "Run the Road" features in Season 1 of the HBO show Euphoria.

Besides her own work, Santigold has collaborated with a number of other artists, including Mark Ronson in 2007, David Byrne in 2010 and Beastie Boys in 2011.

Santigold co-wrote the title track for GZA's 1999 album Beneath the Surface, which featured Res.

Santigold co-composed and produced a majority of Res' album How I Do in 2001, and later appeared on the song "Stay in Line" on GZA's 2002 album, Legend of the Liquid Sword.

In 2007, Santigold appeared on Mark Ronson's Version, performing on a cover of The Jam's "Pretty Green", in her first performance credited as Santigold.

Santigold then collaborated with Basement Jaxx's on their Scars album, adding her vocals to the song "Saga".

Santigold contributed vocals to multiple songs on Tyler, the Creator's 2019 album Igor.

Australian singer-songwriter Kevin Mitchell, under the moniker of Bob Evans, stated that Santigold's work was an influence for the creation of his fourth album, Familiar Stranger.

Santigold was previously married to Trevor Andrew, with whom she has three children, a son born in 2014 and fraternal twins born in 2018.