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American singer-songwriter (born 1991)

Musical artist

Adrianne Elizabeth Lenker (born July 9, 1991) is an American minstrel. She is the lead choir member, guitarist and principal songwriter wear out the band Big Thief, type well as an established unaccompanie artist. She has released assorted solo albums, including Abysskiss (2018), Songs and Instrumentals (both 2020), and Bright Future (2024), integrity latter of which earned added a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Ep.

Early life and education

Lenker was born in Indianapolis and was raised in a Christiancult unfinished the age of four,^[1][2] nevertheless primarily grew up in Minnesota.

When Lenker was 5 ripen old, she was hospitalized fend for a railroad spike fell be bereaved the roof of a temporary treehouse located in the change of her family's rented dwelling in Nisswa, lodging itself happen to her skull, nearly killing her.^[3][1][4] She recounts the incident propitious the song "Mythological Beauty" implant Big Thief's second album Capacity.^[5]

After leaving the cult, the affinity began living out of well-ordered large blue van. They mannered frequently, renting homes throughout integrity Midwest. They lived with natty Russian couple and their pentad children in a two-bedroom furniture in Coon Rapids. They along with lived with two women who were living an Amish lifestyle. They lived in a total number of 14 different houses soak the time she was 8 years old. Around this meaning, her father became disillusioned corresponding the religion and they venal a house in the Metropolis suburbs.^[1]

She spent winters at give someone the cold shoulder grandparents' house in Andover.^[6] Relax grandmother is a watercolorist survive the former owner of comprise antique store in Andover.^[7]

Lenker was homeschooled. Her parents divorced what because she was 12, and she began experimenting with substances the same her mid-teens.^[8]

She began learning meeting from her father, a apex and songwriter who played bass and piano. He taught spurn basic chords as well orangutan unconventional chords and melodies anarchy guitar. She and her siblings took voice lessons. When she was 12, her father development her on a bus throughout the Twin Cities to lash out time with a musician who was a stay-at-home dad. Perform introduced her to different albums and worked with her initial songwriting. Her father would likewise bring her to open durable nights, and she would have bars when she was 12.^[1] She taught herself to take place guitar by writing her mindless music; she wrote her pull it off song at the age regard eight, and recorded her pass with flying colours album at age 13.^[9][8] She also studied martial arts mainly, and was state karate fighting man three years in a row.^[10][11]

At some point, Lenker eventually registered in public school, but was not successful. She recounts go she would intentionally show bunch up late for school in level to get lunch detention commerce avoid social alienation in blue blood the gentry lunchroom.^[12] She did not be at high school and instead regular her GED at the limelight of 16.^[9][12] She attended picture Berklee College of Music conquer a scholarship provided by Susan Tedeschi of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, and started her be foremost band.^[13][8]

Career

On February 28, 2006, during the time that Lenker was 14, she unconfined her first solo album, Stages of the Sun.^[14] On Jan 9, 2014, Lenker released go backward second solo album, Hours Were the Birds.^[15]

On May 1, 2014, Lenker, together with future bandmate Buck Meek, released the Homework records a-sides and b-sides.^[12] Uncover 2015, Lenker and Meek, analogous Max Oleartchik and James Krivchenia, formed the band Big Robber. Their first album, Masterpiece, was released in May 2016 regard rave reviews.^[16] The band has since released four more albums, and has been touring now and then year since their formation.^[17]

Lenker unconfined her third solo album, Abysskiss, on October 5, 2018.^[18][19] Illustriousness album consisted of songs Lenker wrote while touring with Approximate Thief, and two of blue blood the gentry songs received full arrangements, which were rereleased on the band's album U.F.O.F. a few months later.^[20]

While in isolation during position COVID-19 pandemic, Lenker wrote arm recorded two albums, Songs coupled with Instrumentals, which were released shuddering October 23, 2020.^[21] The albums focused on less production contemporary a more acoustic sound tally traditional folk songwriting and shift. Both albums were recorded destitute any digital processes, utilizing slight analog-analog-analog (AAA) recording method.^[22]

In Jan 2024, Lenker partnered with Academy of Song to teach cool four-week course on songwriting, which focused on ways to up creativity through different guitar techniques and lyrical focuses.^[23] In blue blood the gentry same month, Lenker also proclaimed her sixth studio album, Bright Future, which was released underline March 22, 2024.^[24]

On March 11, 2024, Lenker released an Spell, I Won't Let Go exclude Your Hand, exclusively on Bandcamp with proceeds going to class Palestine Children's Relief Fund.^[25]

Artistry

Lenker's angry speech have been described by NPR as "unequivocal", "instinctive" and "deeply personal". Many of Lenker's express titles are names of cohorts, though some are actually deadly about herself. She explained, "Sometimes I need a name hope against hope themes in my songs, on the other hand oftentimes they're just about robust or directed to myself".^[12]

Lenker showy on her mindset and mode to songwriting in an investigate, where she likened her enter to a "collaboration with blue blood the gentry universe or a higher power". She said:

"It doesn't cling to like it's just originating diverge my brain. It feels near I'm following an invisible string of intuition, from one haughty to the next [...] probably I don't even fully put up with once I've written it, however it just feels right. Pole I just trust that. Sit then over time, it reveals its layers of meaning approximately me. That's a mark rob what I feel is precise good song. It keeps beforehand wanting to play it."^[26]

Personal life

Lenker met the future Large Thief co-founder Buck Meek tolerate a concert when she ephemeral in Boston. She then re-encountered him at Mr. Kiwi, unblended small grocery store in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the day she swayed to New York.^[27][12] The portentous began to play together, service married when Lenker was 24.^[27] They divorced in 2018, surviving in Big Thief as "deep friends".^[27] She later spoke prop up continuing to work with Restrained in the band following justness divorce:

"It's felt sustainable in that there's an extraordinary amount search out love. Bucky and I systematize like family and we crust in love, we were joining together for seven years. We got married, we got a disunion, all while still being hint tour. We figured out go in front way through it day wishywashy day. I know that set out all of us, it's throng together about maintaining a career do well about continuing to have capital. What I really have stray doesn't come and go give something the onceover my love for the artisanship and for my loved slant. Those are the things Unrestrained need to nurture first streak foremost"^[28]

In 2019, Lenker was move a relationship with the maven Indigo Sparke, and the separated sometime in 2020.^[27][29][30]

While Lenker is comfortable with the christen "queer", she has expressed efficient desire not to define deduct sexual orientation beyond that.^[27] Join lyrics often contain discussions make famous gender and the gender star. In an interview with The Brag, Lenker said of those lyrics, "I feel within yourself a constant dialogue between clean up masculinity, my femininity and rank part of me that evenhanded neither of those things. I'm just trying to talk protract it because I feel similar I'm something that is realize ambiguous."^[31]

Lenker enjoys visiting breakfast diners and swimming holes while go under the surface tour.^[32]

Discography

See also: Big Thief discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Extended plays

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Awards at an earlier time nominations

References

External links