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Full Tracy Bonham Biography
Tracy Bonham (born 16 March 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Grammy-nominated American musician best known for her single "Mother Mother".
Raised in Eugene, Oregon, Bonham is a classically trained violinist and pianist. She received two Grammy nominations in 1997 for Best Alternative Performance and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Today, Bonham splits her time between the U.S. West Coast and Brooklyn, New York.
A native of Eugene, Oregon, Bonham began singing at age 5 and playing the violin at 9. She started writing songs in 1994 after moving to Boston. In 1996, her major label debut The Burdens of Being Upright went gold, spawning the hit single "Mother Mother", and leading to a pair of Grammy nominations. The follow-up, Down Here, was released in 2000 and since that time she’s continued her career, playing her music around the country.
When asked about the maturation of her songwriting, Bonham replies, “I think I stopped trying to prove so much to people. I went inward and realized that being honest and not being so veiled and cryptic can actually touch more people. In the past, I wanted to be deep, but then I went too far and was over-thinking everything. Now I just write from the heart.”
Tracy Bonham became a critically acclaimed artist after her debut full-length album The Burdens of Being Upright. Magazines such as Rolling Stone and People noted her bold approach to rock music. Her single "Mother, Mother" was number one on the rock charts for a month. Later that year Bonham was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Performance and Best Female Vocal. She then went on extensive touring.
After the mild success of her first album, Tracy released Down Here, her second full-length album. Originally titled "Trails of a Dust Devil" with promos having been sent out with that title, the album and the only single released from it, "Behind Every Good Woman", failed to chart. She took a break after promoting the album while searching for a new label.
Tracy parted ways with her record label. Whilst touring in support of Blue Man Group, she recorded and released an independent EP, Bee. It included early versions of "Shine", "All Thumbs" and "Naked", which later appeared on her next full length album. It also included a live version of "Freed" from the Down Here album, and a cover of "Black Dog", originally performed by Led Zeppelin. With the money made from selling this EP she returned to the studio to start work on her third full-length LP. The Bee EP was later re-issued in Europe as the Something Beautiful EP, with the addition of the title track (lifted from Blink the Brightest), and a DVD with bonus live performances.
On June 21, 2005, Bonham released Blink the Brightest (Zoë/Rounder). It was recorded in L.A., where she has lived part-time since 2003.
Bonham is also a self-taught guitarist. “Guitar-wise, I have a certain style that I can’t seem to get any guitar player to mimic, and it’s because they’re good and I’m bad,” she has said. “And I don’t mind. There’s a way I want to hear it, so I just do it myself.”
Unlike Bonham’s first two albums, which were underwritten by her former label Island Records, Bonham paid the recording costs of Blink the Brightest herself with money she’d made from selling copies of her EPs while touring with the Blue Man Group in 2003 (she previously appeared on the group’s album, The Complex).
In the late fall/early winter of 2006, Bonham released In The City + In The Woods, her second EP which she funded herself. The 11-track disc features two studio tracks, a cover version of Beyoncé's "Crazy In Love" and an original- "In My Other Life". The rest of the songs are live tracks, which include some older favorites ("One Hit Wonder" and a stunning new version of "Navy Bean"), covers ("Blue Jay Way"), and previously unreleased material ("Your World Turns Upside Down", "The Idiot In Me").
EPs
- The Liverpool Sessions - 1995 (EP)
- Bee - 2003 (EP)
- Something Beautiful - 2005 (EP/DVD)
- In The City/In The Woods - 2006 (EP)
Singles
- Mother, Mother - 1996 (Single)
- Sharks Can't Sleep - 1996 (Single)
- The One - 1996 (Single)
- Behind Every Good Woman - 2000 (Single)
- Shine - 2005 (promo-only single) |
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