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 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.
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