Annie Clark Biography
Annie Clark (also known as St. Vincent) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She began her music career as a member of The Polyphonic Spree and also a member of Sufjan Stevens’s touring band, she formed her own band in 2006.
Annie Clark Age
Annie Erin Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. on 28 September 1982. She is 36 years as of 2018.
Annie Clark Family
Annie Erin Clark was born on September 28, 1982, in Tulsa, Oklahoma to her mother, a social worker and administrator for a non-profit organization, her stepfather works in corporate tax administration. Her parents divorced when she was three years old. At the age of seven, she moved with her mother and two older sisters to Dallas, Texas.
She has four brothers and four sisters, from her blended family. She began playing her first real guitar at the age of 12 and worked some of her teenage years as a roadie for her aunt and uncle, the guitar-vocal jazz duo Tuck & Patti.
Annie Clark Education
She attended Lake Highlands High School and graduated in 2001. while there, she participated in theater and the school’s jazz band.
She then attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts for three years before dropping out.
Annie Clark Girlfriend
Clark is a very private person though she has been reported to have been in relationships with Cara Delevingne and Kristen Stewart. She is currently dating Cara Delevingne and they seem to be engaged.
Annie Clark Net Worth
Clark’s primary source of income is from her music career. She has an estimated net worth is $5 million.
Annie Clark Career
In 2006, she began recording a studio album, under the stage name St. Vincent. She took the name from a Nick Cave song, which refers to the hospital in which Dylan Thomas died, “St. Vincent’s hospital” The name is also a reference to her great-grandmother, whose middle name was St. Vincent.
On July 10, 2007, she released her first album, Marry Me, on Beggars Banquet Records.
In 2008, she was nominated for three PLUG Independent Music Awards: New Artist of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, and Music Video of the Year, where she won the PLUG Female Artist of the Year award on March 6, 2008. On May 5, 2009, she released her second album, entitled Actor, it was released by 4AD Records.
In November 2010, she appeared alongside American rappers Kid Cudi and Cage, on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, to perform “Maniac”, from Cudi’s Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager
On August 24, 2011, a music video was released for the song “Cruel”, and on September 5, the entire album was put up for streaming on NPR Music.
On August 25, 2011, she premiered Strange Mercy ( which was later released on September 13, 2011.) in the Temple of Dendur room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, she also introduced Toko Yasuda (ex-Enon), Matt Johnson, and Daniel Mintseris as members of her live band.
Annie Clark Collaboration With David Byrne
In 2012, Annie Clark featured on Andrew Bird’s album Break It Yourself singing on “Lusitania”. On June 14, 2012, her first single from her collaboration with David Byrne, “Who”, formerly of Talking Heads, was released. It came from their album Love This Giant, which was released on September 11, 2012. On September 18, that same year, she participated in the “30 Songs / 30 Days” campaign to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s best-selling book.
In November 2013, she received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Performing Arts and signed to Loma Vista Recordings.
In January 2014, she released her second single, “Digital Witness”,
It was ranked as the #1 album of 2014, by a number of publications, including The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, NME, Gigwise, and MusicOMH.
In February 2015, she received her first Grammy, as St Vincent won “Best Alternative Music Album”
In June 2017 St. Vincent released “New York”, the lead single from her fifth album…. in October 2017, she released her fifth studio album, Mass education.
On October 12, 2018, she officially released “MassEducation” a brand new acoustic rendition of her previous album.
Her music has been noted for its wide array of instruments and complex arrangements, as well as its polysemous lyrics, which have been described as teetering between “happiness and madness”.
Annie Clark Discography
- Marry Me (2007)
- Actor (2009)
- Strange Mercy (2011)
- St. Vincent (2014)
- Masseduction (2017)
- MassEducation (2018)
Tours
- Marry Me Tour (2007–08)
- Actor Tour (2009–10)
- Strange Mercy Tour (2011–12)
- Love This Giant Tour (2012–13)
- Digital Witness Tour (2014–15)
- Fear The Future Tour (2017–18)
- I Am a Lot Like You Tour (2018)
- High As Hope Tour (2018, As Opening Act For Florence + The Machine)
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