Joanna Newsom Biography

Joanna Newsom, Musician
Born asJoanna Caroline Newsom
Occup.Musician
FromUSA
SpouseAndy Samberg
BornJanuary 18, 1982
Nevada City, California, USA
Age42 years
Joanna Newsom, a skilled harpist, pianist, and singer-songwriter, was born upon January 18, 1982, in the little city of Nevada City, California, United States. Nestled within a music family members, her dad is a guitarist and her mother is a pianist, she and her 2 younger siblings matured in a setting cultivating their creative thinking and also interest for music.

Newsom began her music journey at a very young age; four-year-old Joanna began finding out the piano as well as developed a fondness for the harp just a year later. However, it was not until the age of eleven that she started training on the pedal harp under the tutelage of renowned harpist Lisa Stine. Joanna attended the Waldorf School, where she sought a versatile education and learning grounded in arts as well as academics, remaining to refine her abilities both as a harpist as well as pianist.

In 2000, she enlisted at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she studied composition as well as creative writing. During her university years, she created a love for jazz as well as avant-garde songs, and also her skill as a singer started to shine. Her singing design often attracts comparisons to the fabulous singers Kate Bush and also Björk.

Her initial foray right into the expert songs arena started when she came to be entailed with the San Francisco-based indie rock band, The Pleased. While playing as their keyboardist, she fulfilled fellow musician Noah Georgeson, that would become a long-time collaborator as well as manufacturer of her solo functions.

In 2004, Joanna launched her debut album, "The Milk-Eyed Mender," gaining important honor for her special mix of indie-folk, harp-based compositions, and whimsical yet profound lyrics. Newsom's sophomore initiative, "Ys," can be found in 2006 as well as included long-form, complex make-ups that even more showcased her development as an artist.

Joanna's track record as a real-time entertainer expanded as she visited extensively, often gone along with by fellow musicians as well as backing singers, including her younger sibling, Peter Newsom. These performances would become documented in the 2009 online album "Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band EP," further exposing her magnetic stage existence and also enchanting creativity.

Her third album, "Have One on Me," was a triple-album opus launched in 2010 that solidified her as one of one of the most cutting-edge and creative musicians of her generation. In addition to her music mastery, Newsom likewise ventured right into the globe of acting, with a sustaining function in the 2014 film "Inherent Vice," guided by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Joanna's newest studio job, "Divers," released in 2015, demonstrated a much more compressed and streamlined facet of her songwriting, though still showcasing her detailed and deeply emotional narration. Throughout her occupation, Joanna Newsom has developed an exceptional body of work, weaving a special tapestry of audio that sets her apart in the songs market.

Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Joanna.

Related authors: Paul Thomas Anderson (Director), Kate Bush (Musician), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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30 Famous quotes by Joanna Newsom

Small: You should listen to a lot of different music
"You should listen to a lot of different music"
Small: Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just f
"Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own"
Small: I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by
"I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references"
Small: I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I dont k
"I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple"
Small: I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp
"I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp"
Small: I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs
"I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs"
Small: Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a sou
"Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme"
Small: I definitely dont subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or doub
"I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated"
Small: Its valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But its inva
"It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band"
Small: Its totally different. I usually dont tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp.
"It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar"
Small: I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didnt play long enough to be really great
"I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great"
Small: I cant play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I cant do the key changes
"I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes"
Small: I am always trying to write
"I am always trying to write"
Small: I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music
"I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music"
Small: I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesnt have any money. I wouldnt want to do that for
"I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever"
Small: I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African
"I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African"
Small: The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words
"The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words"
Small: People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows.
"People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on"
Small: People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set
"People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set"
Small: I would happy for someone to download my music
"I would happy for someone to download my music"
Small: I started playing harp about fourteen years ago
"I started playing harp about fourteen years ago"
Small: I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs
"I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs"
Small: I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac
"I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac"
Small: I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music
"I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music"
Small: The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out o
"The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it"
Small: In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involv
"In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza"
Small: I wasnt interested in writing music that wasnt beautiful for me to listen to
"I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to"
Small: I have writing songs on my own for about six years
"I have writing songs on my own for about six years"
Small: I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I cant get away from completely
"I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely"
Small: I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are complet
"I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it"