11 Facts About Vanessa Daou

Vanessa Dale Daou was born on October 4,1967 and is an American singer, songwriter, poet, visual artist and dancer.

Demos that Vanessa Daou had recorded caught the attention of two NuGroove DJs, and they invited her to provide guest vocals on a developing track.

Vanessa Daou performed as "Vandal" at Los Angeles' Stranger Than Fiction rave at the Shrine Auditorium in 1990.

Creative disagreements with Columbia would see Vanessa Daou negotiate out of her contract and subsequently release Head Music's next two singles for the independent Tribal Records.

Vanessa Daou recorded a sophomore solo album, Slow to Burn, and released it in the Fall of that year.

Vanessa Daou chose to leave as well, and negotiated out of her contract with MCA.

In 1999, Vanessa Daou released Dear John Coltrane on the Oxygen imprint.

Vanessa Daou's catalog was tapped for various music compilations and for the soundtrack to 2005 French film Lila Says, but Daou would devote this time largely to visual arts, writing and academic pursuits.

In 2007, Vanessa Daou announced on her official website that various pieces created since Make You Love were being compiled for an upcoming multimedia release, introduced under the working title Then, at Midnight.

Vanessa Daou's website announced that the original version of "Revolution" would appear on an upcoming 2013 album: Light Sweet Crude.

Lyrically, too, Light Sweet Crude would see Vanessa Daou expand into new territory: Where earlier work all but exclusively explored the tumult of personal angst and interpersonal liaisons, those matters in Light Sweet Crude become corollary to such geopolitical phenomena as revolution and war.