Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles.
Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
She has also invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.
On April 12, 2008 Laurie Anderson married longtime companion Lou Reed in a private ceremony in Boulder, Colorado.
Studio albums:
1981 - You're the guy i want to share my money with (192kbps)
1982 - Big Science (320kbps)
1984 - Mister Heartbreak (320kbps)
1986 - Home of the Brave (320kbps) - Soundtrack
1989 - Strange Angels (320kbps)
1994 - Bright Red (320kbps)
1995 - In Our Sleep (320 kbps) - Single
2000 - Talk Normal (320kbps) - Anthology
2001 - Life On A String (320kbps)
2007 - Big Science - 25th anniversary edition (320kbps)
Live albums:
1984 - United States Live (320kbps)
1995 - The Ugly One with the Jewels and Other Stories (320kbps)
2002 - Live in New York (320kbps)
Laurie Anderson – discography – 1981-2007 – 12 albums and 1 single, MP3
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