Liz Phair

Birth Name:

Elizabeth Clark Phair

Birth Place:

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Profession

Soundtrack, Actress, Music department

She was number one on SPIN's list of the 20 Best Albums of the Year in 1993
Graduated from Oberlin College with degrees in Art History and Studio Art in 1989
Worked as an intern in New York for political artists Leon Golub and Nancy Spero
Supported herself by selling her charcoal drawings on the streets of Chicago while in the process of writing and recording her songs
Quote: "(On "Exile in Guyville"): "It's that girl, that girl having people say you can't do this, you aren't good enough to do this, you don't know what you are doing - and me getting enough rage in me to say, 'I have as much of a voice as anyone․․․'""
Best known as the feminist indie rock singer behind the 1993 album "Exile in Guyville․"
A friend, guitarist Chris Brokaw of the band Come, convinced her to make tapes of her music, which would eventually become "Girlysound․"
Her music has been featured in films like "Higher Learning" and "Stealing Beauty," as well as in TV series like "90210" and "In Plain Sight․"
Took part in the 1998 Lilith Fair before going on a solo tour to promote her album "whitechocolatespaceegg․"
Exile in Guyville was a song-by-song response to the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street․"

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