1. Tracy Kristin Bonham was born on March 16,1967 and is an American alternative rock musician.
22 Facts About Tracy Bonham
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Tracy Bonham's debut album, The Burdens of Being Upright, was a critical and commercial success and earned her two Grammy nominations, in addition to being certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America less than a year after its release.
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Tracy Bonham was the last female solo artist to top this chart until Lorde in 2013.
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Delays plagued the release of her second album, Down Here, which failed to chart internationally; Tracy Bonham parted ways with Island a year after the album's release, after which she turned her attention to working with other musical artists, including The Blue Man Group when she appeared in their The Complex Rock Tour Live tour and live DVD in 2003.
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In 2004, Tracy Bonham signed to the Rounder Records imprint Zoe Records, with whom she issued her third album Blink the Brightest.
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Tracy Kristin Bonham was born in Eugene, Oregon, on March 16,1967, the only child of Donald Lewis Bonham and Lee Anne Leach.
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Tracy Bonham's father was the city editor of The Eugene Register-Guard, and her mother was a music teacher; the two had met while Leach was attending the University of Oregon.
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Tracy Bonham's father died when she was two years old, and her mother remarried five years later to Edward Robert Robertson, a mortgage loan officer.
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Tracy Bonham was trained as a classical musician; she began singing at the age of five, and playing the violin at nine.
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Tracy Bonham later graduated at South Eugene High School and received a full scholarship to the University of Southern California for violin.
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In 1994, Tracy Bonham started writing music and released her first song, "The One", which appeared on the compilation album Girl, released through the Boston-based Curve of the Earth label.
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In 1995, Tracy Bonham issued her debut EP, The Liverpool Sessions, through the CherryDisc label, which brought her additional local acclaim; after its release, she signed to Island Records.
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Tracy Bonham then went on an extensive tour in support of the album.
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The album's first single, "Mother Mother", reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in June 1996, and remained there for a month; Tracy Bonham subsequently became the first female solo artist to achieve this feat, and was the last one to do so until Lorde reached the same position with her single "Royals" in 2013.
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Tracy Bonham hoped to make an album that would better reflect her classical influences and serve as a more mature outing.
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Reluctantly, Tracy Bonham returned to writing new, more commercial-sounding songs, including "Behind Every Good Woman".
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Tracy Bonham cited Island Records' changing musical direction as the primary reason why she was cut from the label.
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Tracy Bonham then left studio recording behind and began to tour in support of other groups such as the performance group Blue Man Group and even rock band Aerosmith.
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Tracy Bonham had only pressed 1,000 hoping to sell 500, but she eventually sold over 12,000 of the EP's while on the various tours.
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Tracy Bonham performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and her new songs were featured on XM Radio's The Loft Channel.
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From 2007 to 2009, Tracy Bonham recorded songs for her new album in Woodstock.
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Between 1998 and 2001, Tracy Bonham was married to Steve Slingeneyer of the band Soulwax.