EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and activist Ani DiFranco has signed with Artists First, with an eye fixed towards increasing her resume in movie, tv and theatre.
A feminist icon whose music blends folks, punk, funk, and jazz influences, DiFranco broke new floor in 1990, when she based her personal document label, Righteous Babe Information, permitting her to take care of full artistic management over her work in an business usually dominated by main labels. She received the Grammy for Finest Recording Package deal for her 2003 album, Evolve, and can be recognized for albums like Not a Fairly Woman, Dilate, Little Plastic Fortress, and Residing in Clip.
At present, DiFranco has many irons within the fireplace. This month she’s hitting the highway on a worldwide tour for her newest album, Unprecedented Sh!t, which has already bought out a number of dates. Her memoir No Partitions and the Recurring Dream, which was a New York Instances High 10 bestseller in 2019, is presently being tailored right into a characteristic, and she or he’s additionally working for the time being on The Spirit of Ani, a brand new non-fiction venture. Beforehand, she’s additionally revealed the youngsters’s books The Figuring out and Present Up and Vote.
Earlier this yr, DiFranco accomplished a five-month run on Broadway as Persephone within the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Hadestown. Her documentary 1-800-On-Her-Personal, providing an intimate take a look at her present-day life and profession, premiered ultimately yr’s Tribeca Pageant.
Along with a Grammy, DiFranco has been the recipient of awards and honors together with the Girl of Braveness Award from the Nationwide Group for Girls, the Homosexual/Lesbian American Music Award for Feminine Artist of the 12 months, and the Woody Guthrie Award. On the 2013 Winnipeg People Pageant, she acquired the Inventive Achievement Award, in addition to an honorary doctorate from the College of Winnipeg. Different accolades she’s earned thus far embody a Lifetime Achievement Award from nonprofit A2IM and the Excellent Achievement for World Activism Award from A World Friendship. She was named a Champion for Justice by the Nationwide Middle for Lesbian Rights in 2021.
Over time, DiFranco has carried out at numerous profit live shows, donated songs to many charity albums, and given time and vitality to many progressive causes. She has advocated in opposition to the loss of life penalty and the carceral state all through her profession, together with producing and releasing an album that includes incarcerated writers, Lengthy Time Gone, in 2020. As a powerful proponent of restorative justice, she has labored carefully with each The Southern Middle for Human Rights and The Innocence Venture. She has additionally overwhelmed the drum for voter registration and turnout with “Vote Dammit” excursions and sits on the board of Roots of Music, a company that gives at-risk youth with educational assist and musical schooling in New Orleans, in addition to the artistic council of EMILY’s Record, which helps elect pro-choice Democratic ladies to workplace.
DiFranco continues to be represented by Paladin Artists and Invasion Group.
