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| Liz Phair |
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"No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them."
-Liz Phair
| Date of Birth: April 17th, 1967 |
| Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut |
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| Ever since she released her first album in 1993, Liz Phair has been at the forefront of the independent feminist alternative rock movement. The critics love her, the fans love her, and she has since released three more records. She's not about to break sales records, but in the music industry she's a virtual goddess. |
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| Let's see... She's not bad to look at, she can belt out a mean tune, her music is different from all the other flavor-of-the-week bands you hear on the radio, and she sings about sex in all its forms. Naughty, naughty... |
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Elizabeth Clark Phair was born on April 17th, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut. Shortly after her birth, she was adopted by Dr. John and Nancy Phair, who already had an adopted son, Philip, and soon the family settled in the prosperous Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Illinois, where Dr. Phair took a position at Northwestern Hospital. When she was 7, Liz moved to England with her family for one year, where her father took a sabbatical.
After attending New Trier High School, which she compares to the schools in John Hughes movies, Liz went to Oberlin College in Ohio, where she majored in Art History/Studio Art. During her college days, she became spellbound with the new underground music referred to as indie rock and in the process she became good friends with guitarist Chris Brokaw.
After working as an intern in New York for political artists Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Liz moved to San Francisco with Brokaw with the hopes of becoming an artist. In 1991, she returned to Chicago and started writing songs. Brokaw was impressed with her skills and dared her to record a demo. Using a 4-track machine in her bedroom, she recorded three cassettes, a total of 32 songs, and these tapes became known as Girlysound.
At the same time, her interest in underground music grew and she befriended the band Urge Overkill, drummer Brad Wood, and John Henderson, the big cheese of independent label Feel Good All Over. Nevertheless, to make ends meet she had to sell charcoal drawings on the street. She re-recorded her music with Henderson and sent it to Brokaw who was now with the band Come. Brokaw forwarded the Girlysound tapes to Gerard Cosley, the head of Come's record label, Matador. |
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