Female Songwriters
Biography of JoJo
Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque, professionally known as JoJo was born on December 20, 1990 in Brattleboro, Vermont and raised in Keene, New Hampshire and Foxborough, Massachusetts. She grew up in a low-income family. Her parents divorced when she was three.
At age 7, JoJo appeared on the television show Kids Say the Darnedest Things: On the [...]
Biography of Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple was born on September 13, 1977 in New York City. She was born Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart. she is the daughter of singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart.
Apple is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter. She gained popularity through her 1996 album Tidal, especially with the single “Criminal” and its music video.
Apple’s music is [...]
Biography of Ashanti
Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980) is an American recording artist, record producer, actress, dancer and model who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song “Foolish”, and sold over 503,000 copies in its first week of release [...]
Biography of Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham was born on 17 April 1974 in Hertfordshire, England. She is a singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and model.
She has two siblings, brother Christian and sister Louise, while parents, Jackie and Tony, ran a successful electrical wholesale business and were well off by most standards.
During her rise to fame [...]
Biography of Tori Amos
Tori Amos was born as Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963 in Newton, North Carolina. She moved with her parents to suburban Maryland a year later after her birth. She is a pianist and singer-songwriter of American citizenship.
Tori Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and [...]
Biography of Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow was born on February 11, 1962 in Kennett, Missouri. She is a singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a left-wing political activist.
Sheryl began piano lessons at age 5, and growing up on the music [...]
Biography of Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado was born on December 2, 1978) in the Canadian city of Victoria. She is a Portuguese-Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold over 18 million albums worldwide, and currently resides in Toronto. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Furtado first turned to music for enjoyment, learning to play the [...]
Biography of Mya
Mýa Marie Harrison was born on October 10, 1979 in Washington, D.C, and is the daughter of an African-American father and Italian mother. She is professionally known mononymously as Mýa. She is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, tap-dancer, model. Mya’s debut album with Interscope Records was released in April 1998, and sold over [...]
Biography of Michelle Branch
Michelle Jaquet DeSevren Branch was born on July 2, 1983 in Flagstaff, Arizona. She is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. She released two top-selling albums, “The Spirit Room” and “Hotel Paper” during the early 2000s and her singles such as “Everywhere,” “All You Wanted,” “Goodbye To You,” “Are You Happy Now?,” “Breathe” and the Grammy-winning [...]
Biography of Dido
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong was born on 25 December 1971 in London, United Kingdom. Dido is her professionally known name. She is an English singer-songwriter who has sold nearly 30 million albums worldwide.
Dido’s mother, Clare (née Collins), is a French poet and her father, William O’Malley Armstrong, was an Irish publisher and [...]