DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

Mike Doughty ( who billed himself at the time as " M. Doughty ") was a folk singer ( he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiata and played around the school together ), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot.

In 1998, Eric Johnson was among the judges in Musician magazine's " Best Unsigned Bands " competition, along with Ani DiFranco, Moby, Art Alexakis of Everclear, Keb ' Mo ' and Joe Perry of Aerosmith.

It was created by progressive folksinger Ani DiFranco in 1990 to release her own songs in lieu of being beholden to a mainstream record company.

REV105 was instrumental in introducing newer artists to the airwaves, such as Ani DiFranco and Soul Coughing.

He eventually moved to New York City to study poetry at the New School University, where singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco was one of his classmates in Sekou Sundiata's poetry course, " The Shape and Nature of Things to Come.

* Oppenheim's poem was set to music in 1974 by Mimi Fariña and has been recorded by various artists, including Judy Collins, Ani DiFranco, Utah Phillips, John Denver, and Josh Lucker.

Their music was often compared to Ani DiFranco or Dar Williams.

In 1995, the band released Shy Folk, which featured contributions from Ani DiFranco and was produced by Michael Phillip Wojewoda, and which featured the singles " All Peace " and " Be My Witness ".

Its promotional single featured a radio remix and an extended mix ; the banjo intro to the track was sampled for a later DiFranco track, " The Arrivals Gate ", released on To the Teeth.

The Ani DiFranco song Hello Birmingham, from her 1999 album To The Teeth, was written as a response to the Slepian murder.

It was sold only at live shows ; the band toured that year as a supporting act for Ani DiFranco.

She has shared stages with Sarah McLachlan, Judy Collins, Marc Cohn, The Animals and Ani DiFranco, and was named one of the Top 100 Independent Artists Of The Past 15 Years by Performing Songwriter magazine.

File 13 was used as a band moniker by Doug " Double Dee " DiFranco of Double Dee and Steinski and record producer David Witz when they released a 12 " single on Profile Records in 1984 called " Taste So Good.

* The song " Hello Birmingham " from the 1999 album To the Teeth by Ani DiFranco was written in response to the bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, as well as the murder of Dr. Slepian in Amherst, New York ( near DiFranco's hometown of Buffalo ).

Ani DiFranco (; born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970 ) is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter.

Working under the name Steinski, New York copywriter, DJ Steve Stein began ( in conjunction with engineer and fellow studio boffin Doug " Double Dee " DiFranco ) the next chapter in the evolution of illicit pop by producing a trio of underground 12 " singles ( entitled " The Payoff Mix " ( 1983 ), " Lesson 2 ( The James Brown Mix )" ( 1984 ) and " Lesson 3 ( History of Hiphop )" ( 1985 )) which exerted a powerful influence on an entire generation of " samplists ".

Among them: Trace, Steve Hackett, Third Eye Blind, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Jon Brion, Blur, Marco Benevento, Fiona Apple, Kraftwerk ( Orchestron ), Money Mark, Ani DiFranco, Michael Penn, Steve Fisk, Tom Waits, Nan Vernon, Hala Strana, TISM, The Real Tuesday Weld, and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo — who mixed in parts of the " Banjo Sing-Along " disc on a later remix of Devo's 1981 single, " Beautiful World.

Notable celebrities who appeared at the march included Peter, Paul and Mary, Indigo Girls, Moby, Ani DiFranco, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Ashley Judd, Kathleen Turner, Ted Turner, Ana Gasteyer, Janeane Garofalo, Bonnie Franklin, Holly Near, Cris Williamson, Julianne Moore and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ; also appearing were veteran abortion rights leaders, such as Kate Michelman of NARAL Pro-Choice America and Gloria Steinem, and many members of Congress.

* The Ani DiFranco song " Napoleon " satirizes the desire to continuously " conquer "; more specifically musicians who sign with big labels, thus employing " an army of suits " in order to " make a killing " rather than just " make a living ".

She has also had touring stints as bassplayer with Ani DiFranco and Chris Whitley, and played on Sarah McLachlan's album Solace.

DiFranco went on to perform at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Early in her career, DiFranco considered herself an atheist.

DiFranco has occasionally joined with Prince in discussing publicly the problems associated with major record companies.

Musician / songwriter, Utah Phillips has recorded a song referencing Scribner, " The Saw Playing Musician " on the album Fellow Workers with Ani DiFranco.

Musicians performing over the course of the conference included Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, the Indigo Girls, Ellis Paul, Jimmy LaFave, Ani DiFranco, and others.

Possibly the most popular venue in Memphis, past acts have included Ani DiFranco, AFI, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Insane Clown Posse, Keller Williams, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, and Black Sabbath among many others.

Transmitter maintenance engineer Donald DiFranco died in the attack.

Live looping is not exclusive to electronic music and is found in the singer / songwriter genre, achieving new popularity in the employ of popular artists such as Imogen Heap, Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Marbin, and KT Tunstall.

Guests on the album included Shaggy, Ani DiFranco, Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday, Jeff Beck, Puffy AmiYumi, Sarah McLachlan, and Vivian Green.

The show featured Lauper performing with many artists such as Shaggy, Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver / Stone Temple Pilots, Pat Monahan of Train, Ani DiFranco, and The Hooters.

" Linked by an ethos more than a musical approach, the indie rock movement encompassed a wide range of styles, from hard-edged, grunge-influenced bands, through do-it-yourself experimental bands like Pavement, to punk-folk singers such as Ani DiFranco.

KPFA supporters Alice Walker, the late June Jordan, Joan Baez, Michael Franti, Michael Moore, the late Grace Paley, United Farm Workers of America founder Dolores Huerta, Ani DiFranco, and others rallied to oppose the sale of the listener-supported radio stations.

" Bernstein has also toured with Ani DiFranco.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.