Mann received wider recognition after she contributed songs to the 1999 film Magnolia. Mann began to be seen as "an 80s pop casualty" who was "approaching has-been status". According to Pitchfork, Mann's first two solo albums showed that she was "a witty, self-possessed songwriter", but they did not meet sales expectations, with sales "in the low six figures". After she finished her second album, I'm With Stupid, Imago encountered financial problems they eventually sold the album to Geffen, who signed Mann in 1994 and released I'm With Stupid in 1995. Her debut solo album, Whatever, was released in 1993 on the independent label Imago. Mann developed her first solo albums with producer and former 'Til Tuesday bandmate Jon Brion. Acoustic guitar music was what I was more influenced by and what came naturally to me." 1990s: Solo beginnings and Magnolia I started to feel like it was not really my thing. She said in 2018: " were sort of doing, like, post-new-wave dance-pop stuff. 'Til Tuesday broke up in 1990 when Mann left to start her solo career. 'Til Tuesday released their third and final album, Everything's Different Now, in 1988. Mann sang vocals with Geddy Lee on the 1987 single " Time Stand Still" by Rush, and appeared in the music video. 'Til Tuesday released Welcome Home, their second album, the following year. According to Mann, "Voices Carry" was one of the first songs she wrote. The single " Voices Carry" reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and won that year's MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. They released Voices Carry, their debut album, in 1985. In 1983, Mann founded the new wave band 'Til Tuesday in Boston with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman. She joined the industrial metal band Ministry, which she said helped her learn to write songs efficiently. She was unhappy in the band, saying the other members objected to her writing love songs or "any songs that had melody". She dropped out after 18 months and joined the Boston punk band the Young Snakes. That Patti Smith was out there and people were accepting her? Oh my God, there’s a way out." Feeling she did not fit in the "normal world", Mann enrolled in Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1978. She said: " was so interesting, so inventive – literally do whatever you want. Īs a teenager, Mann enjoyed David Bowie and Iggy Pop, and found punk and new wave music inspiring. What they thought didn't matter." She said she learnt to play her brother's guitar when she was confined to bed with glandular fever at the age of 12. Her family ridiculed her, and she did not take up the instrument until later: "When I grew up, I was in charge of my own life.
When Mann was 12, she told her family she wanted to learn to play the bass guitar. Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, attended Midlothian High School in Chesterfield County, and graduated from Open High School in Richmond.
Mann believes the episode gave her post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety around travelling later in life. Mann did not see her mother again until she was 14. Her father hired a private detective, who brought her back from England a year later to a new stepmother and two stepbrothers. Mann was kidnapped by her mother and her new boyfriend and taken to Europe, where they traveled. When she was three, her mother had an affair and became pregnant, and her parents divorced. Mann was born outside Richmond, Virginia, in 1960.
She has won two Grammy Awards, including Best Folk Album for Mental Illness (2017), and was named one of the world's ten greatest living songwriters by NPR in 2006. 2, Mann self-released it under her own label, SuperEgo Records, in 2000. Mann achieved wider recognition when she recorded songs for the soundtrack to the Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia (1999), earning nominations for Academy Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal.Īfter Mann's record company Geffen refused to release her third solo album, Bachelor No. They received positive reviews but low sales. Mann released her first solo album, Whatever, in 1993, followed by I'm With Stupid in 1995. The band released three albums and disbanded in 1990 when Mann left to pursue a solo career. In the 1980s, after playing with the Young Snakes and Ministry, she co-founded the new wave band 'Til Tuesday and wrote their top-ten single " Voices Carry" (1985). Mann was born in Richmond, Virginia, and studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Over the course of four decades, she has released more than a dozen albums. Aimee Elizabeth Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter.