With eight Grammy nominations and sales of over 4.5 million, Ani DiFranco is one of America’s most fiercely independent and beloved musicians, as well as an outspoken voice of conscience.
Here is a book of poetry and paintings, capturing her essential artistry that has helped define and invigorate a new generation. Ani DiFranco: Verses rages, eulogizes, menaces, revels, and envisions. With a poet's precision and a citizen’s stake, DiFranco finds the meeting places of intimacy and politics, of self and country, of resolve and compromise, and of the fickle and magnificent capacities of love and solitude.
See footage of Ani DiFranco at the 92nd St Y here.
[W]hoever’s in charge up there had better take the elevator down and put more than change in our cup or else we are coming up.
In 1990 at the age of eighteen, ANI DIFRANCO rewrote the rules of the record industry when she created her own label, Righteous Babe Records, as an alternative to beckoning corporate offices. Since then, RBR has released over twenty full-length DiFranco albums to critical acclaim, and is now home to over a dozen cutting-edge new artists. DiFranco was recently named one of the 21 feminists for the 21st century by Ms. magazine and is the author of Ani DiFranco: Verses. She lives in Buffalo, New York and New Orleans, Louisiana.