1. Sarah Allison Jaffe was born on January 29,1986 and is an American singer-songwriter from Denton, Texas.
24 Facts About Sarah Jaffe
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Sarah Jaffe's mom bought her a used acoustic guitar when she was 9 or 10 years old.
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Sarah Jaffe began playing music and performing when she was in high school in Dallas.
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Sarah Jaffe said that her family was musical, with her dad bringing influences of folk music and her mother that of the church choir.
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Sarah Jaffe played shows in Dallas, then moved to Los Angeles for a year, where she had cousins who were musicians.
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In 2008, Sarah Jaffe self-released a six-song EP called Even Born Again.
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Sarah Jaffe said that she wrote the song quickly during a tour with a band she was playing with in Arkansas.
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Sarah Jaffe said the audience had an immediate positive reaction to the song.
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In May 2010, Sarah Jaffe released her first full-length album Suburban Nature, which was recorded in December 2008.
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Sarah Jaffe bought a second-hand bass guitar and drum set and learned how to play them, using the new instruments to explore this new musical direction.
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When writing the record, Sarah Jaffe heavily incorporated the bass guitar and drum set she had bought for the prior EP, using the instruments to add rhythm, drums, and melodies, which fit with Congleton's approach to producing.
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S1 and Sarah Jaffe ended up forming a group called The Dividends.
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Sarah Jaffe has said that she was a big hip hop music fan, but her music up until the collaboration with S1 had not explored beyond Americana and indie pop yet.
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Sarah Jaffe said helped her move past writer's block and into more creative genre-busting directions.
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In 2013 for Record Store Day, Sarah Jaffe sang a cover of PJ Harvey's "Down by the Water" on a 7-inch recording with The Toadies, an alternative rock band from Fort Worth, Texas.
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In 2014, Sarah Jaffe released her third full-length record, Don't Disconnect.
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In 2017, Sarah Jaffe released her fourth full-length record, Bad Baby.
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In 2013, Sarah Jaffe sang vocals on "The Blue Umbrella Suite" by Jon Brion, which was featured in The Blue Umbrella, a short film for 2013 Pixar movie Monsters University.
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In 2015, Sarah Jaffe appeared in the film, Some Kind of Hate, singing her song "Before You Go," which is on the soundtrack to the film.
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Sarah Jaffe knew the director, Saschka Unseld, from her experience working on The Blue Umbrella.
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Also at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival is Augustine Frizzell's feature film, Never Goin' Back, which Sarah Jaffe contributed some original songs.
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In 2012, Sarah Jaffe performed as an opener on the New Multitudes tour, a Woody Guthrie tribute album with a band made up of Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Jim James.
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Sarah Jaffe frequently plays with and has collaborated with multi-instrumentalist Robert Gomez on electric guitar.
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In 2017, Sarah Jaffe signed a letter of protest and performed "Clementine" with St Vincent in protest of the proposal of Texas Legislature's Bathroom Bill, which discriminates against transgender people using bathrooms that don't match their gender identity.