Ani DiFranco was born September 23, 1970. Her full name is Angela Maria DiFranco. She is an American singer-songwriter. Early on in her career, Ani created her own record label Righteous Babe Records. She has released over twenty albums on her own record label. In doing this, she provided herself with complete creative control over her own music and her own voice. The name of her record company itself, is a tongue in cheek reference to men, catcalling to her "Hey baby", "babe", ect.
“I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to make right. Where so many cunning sons and daughters, our foremothers and forefathers came singing through slaughter, came through hell and high water so that we could stand here, and behold breathlessly the sight; how a raging river of tears cut a grand canyon of light. Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists, out of respect for those that fought for this?”
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Works Cited
Wikipedia. 2021. [online] Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani_DiFranco> [Accessed 15 February 2021].
Goodreads.com. 2021. Ani DiFranco Quotes (Author of No Walls and the Recurring Dream). [online] Available at: <https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/79372.Ani_DiFranco> [Accessed 15 February 2021].
2021. [online] Available at: <https://youtu.be/9v1Bb_oEiCg> [Accessed 15 February 2021].
I loved reading this blog and learning about a new American singer-song writer. I have never heard her music before and it is beautiful. She seems like such a admirable women, sticking up for what she believes in. Seeing her get emotional in the beginning of the video was so heart warming and you can tell how much she really does love her country.
ReplyDeleteHi Brea! This is a really neat blog. I feel like a lot of the achievements made by women today get overshadowed by the sheer amount of information at our fingertips, with Ani Difranco being a great example of this. I've never heard of her before, but I thank you for writing about someone who goes more under-the-radar when compared to the feminist movement as a whole.
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