Phoebe Hemenway Legere is a multi-disciplinary artist. She is a
Juilliard-educated composer, soprano, pianist and accordionist,
painter, poet, and a film maker. A graduate of Vassar College with a
four octave vocal range, Legere has recorded for Mercury Records in
England, and for Epic, Island, Rizzoli, Funtone, ESP Disk and Einstein
Records in the United States. Legere plays seven musical instruments
and has released CDs of original music. She has appeared on National
Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS's City Arts, WNYC's Soundcheck,
Charlie Rose and in films by Troma, Island Pictures, Rosa von
Praunheim, Ela Troyano and Ivan Galietti, Abel Ferrara, Jonathan
Demme, Ivan Reitman and many others. Legere is of Acadian and Abenaki
descent through her father. She is a standard bearer of the Acadian
and Abenaki renaissance in America.Legere's parents were both artists.
She began piano lessons at age , and learned the techniques of oil
painting and draftsmanship when she was age , and by age was a
professional musician. She has never taken a singing lesson. She had
her debut at Carnegie Hall at age .As the opening act for David Bowie
on his Sound+Vision Tour US tour, Legere played her original songs
for , people a night. A huge forklift brought a white grand piano to
the stage, where she performed with her seminal punk-rock band, the
Four Nurses of the Apocalypse.In , with composer Morgan Powell, she
co-wrote The Waterclown â€" a musical setting of her epic poem about
water issues, "The Waterclown" â€" for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony.
Juilliard-educated composer, soprano, pianist and accordionist,
painter, poet, and a film maker. A graduate of Vassar College with a
four octave vocal range, Legere has recorded for Mercury Records in
England, and for Epic, Island, Rizzoli, Funtone, ESP Disk and Einstein
Records in the United States. Legere plays seven musical instruments
and has released CDs of original music. She has appeared on National
Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS's City Arts, WNYC's Soundcheck,
Charlie Rose and in films by Troma, Island Pictures, Rosa von
Praunheim, Ela Troyano and Ivan Galietti, Abel Ferrara, Jonathan
Demme, Ivan Reitman and many others. Legere is of Acadian and Abenaki
descent through her father. She is a standard bearer of the Acadian
and Abenaki renaissance in America.Legere's parents were both artists.
She began piano lessons at age , and learned the techniques of oil
painting and draftsmanship when she was age , and by age was a
professional musician. She has never taken a singing lesson. She had
her debut at Carnegie Hall at age .As the opening act for David Bowie
on his Sound+Vision Tour US tour, Legere played her original songs
for , people a night. A huge forklift brought a white grand piano to
the stage, where she performed with her seminal punk-rock band, the
Four Nurses of the Apocalypse.In , with composer Morgan Powell, she
co-wrote The Waterclown â€" a musical setting of her epic poem about
water issues, "The Waterclown" â€" for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony.
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