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Fiona Apple, born September 13, 1977 in New York, is the daughter of actor Brandon Maggart and singer Diane McAfee. Aside from her parents, Fiona Apple’s maternal grandparents also had successful careers as a dancer for the George White’s Scandals musical (Millicent Green) and vocalist of the big band era (Johnny McAfee). Fionna Apple’s brothers and sisters are also part of the entertainment industry, with a cabaret-singer sister Maude Maggart, a director half-brother Spencer Maggart and actor half-brother Garrett Maggart. With such talent on Fiona Apple’s genes, it was never a shock that she also had a passion for music.
Fiona’s break into the music industry came when she was 17, after giving a three-song demo tape to a friend who babysits for music publicist Kathryn Schenker, who then passed the tape on to manager-producer Andy Slater. Fiona Apple’s lyrics, voice and piano skills stood out and Sony Music executive Slater gave her a record deal.
Apple worked from 1995 to 1996 on her debut album “Tidal,” which was released in 1996 by Epic. The album sold 2.7 million copies worldwide and became a triple platinum album in the U.S, while her third song “Criminal” reached Top 40 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. By 1998, Apple contributed covers of Percy Mayfield’ “Please Send Me Someone to Love” and The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” to the soundtrack of the movie “Pleasantville.”
Fiona Apple released her second album “When the Pawn…” in 1999, which sold a million copies in the U.S. and became an RIAA-certified platinum album. In 2002, Fiona and Johnny Cash sang a cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” which was included in Cash’s album “American IV: The Man Comes Around and earned a Grammy Award nomination for “Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.” She worked with Cash again on Cat Steven’s “Father and Son,” which was included on the 2003 Cash collection “Unearthed.”
In 2002, Fiona Apple started working with her third album “Extraordinary Machine,” but when she submitted her work in May 2003 to Sony executives, some tracks were leaked on the Internet. Apple redid nine of the songs, added a new song and left two of the leaked songs unchanged for the official album release in August 2005. For her work on “Extraordinary Machine,” Apple earned a Grammy Award nomination for “Best Pop Vocal Album.” By late 2005, Fiona Apple went on tour to promote her album.
Fiona Apple also appeared on a joke hip-hop track by comedian Zach Galifianakis entitled, “Come over and Get It (Up in 'Dem Guts)," followed by a cover of “Sally’s Song” for Tim Burton’s 2006 film “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
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