Kristin Hersh

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Martha Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter, singer, and author best known for her solo career and with her rock band Throwing Muses and 50FootWave.

She has released eleven solo albums.

Her guitar playing and composition style varies from jaggedly dissonant to classical folk.

Hersh's lyrics are based on a stream-of-consciousness style, relating to her personal experience.

Early life

Hersh was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Newport, Rhode Island, when she was six years old. Her father, a professor at Salve Regina University in Newport, and her mother, a special education needs tutor, was a special educational needs tutor. She was interested in music from a young age and wanted to learn guitar chords; her father gave her a guitar when she was nine years old; she was very interested in music at an early age and wanted to learn guitar chords. When Hersh was 11, her parents separated, and her mother married her best friend, Tanya Donelly. When Hersh was 14 years old, she talked to Donelly about starting a band, later called The Muses.

Personal life

Billy O'Connell, Hersh's former boss, was married for 25 years before she and her mother died in 2013. She has four children. She is engaged to former Throwing Muses bassist Fred Abong as of 2020.

Hersh has opened up about her bouts with mental illness and its role in her musical process. She was killed while riding her bike when she was 16 years old, causing a double concussion that changed the way she heard sounds. She described it as constantly changing ambient sounds, and "the sounds would change their sonic vocabulary until I was hearing syllables and drums." And then all these words will appear"! She said she was forced to take the pieces apart and craft songs from them after hearing "pieces of songs" in her mind. She also claims that she doesn't recall writing her early songs: that "they wrote her."

She has had more than one diagnosis (and misdiagnoses) for her illness, including schizophredia, bipolar disorder, and most recently, post-traumatic and dissociative disorders, which she claims have been successfully treated with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.

Hersh has synesthesia; she sees musical chords in shades.

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Musical career

Throwing Muses was established in 1981, when Hersh and Donelly were freshmen in high school. Elaine Adamedes, Becca Blumen, Leslie Langston, and David Narcizo were among the Narcizo family (and, initially, Langston) who were a long-serving member. Hersh performed the majority of Throwing Muses' songs early, often in varying tempos. Donelly also contributed songs and lead vocals.

Hersh attended Salve Regina University, majoring in archetypal psychology and philosophy, and the Rhode Island School of Design, but she dropped out shortly before graduating to form the band in Boston, Massachusetts, where they had been performing on weekends. Hersh befriended film actress Betty Hutton, who was attending the university in her 60s, while at Salve; Hutton attended several early Throwing Muses performances in Newport.

The Throwing Muses were signed to 4AD, the first American corporation to be signed on the British label, and the EP Chains Changed in 1987. The mini-LP The Fat Skier and the album House Tornado followed two new albums. "... joining the dots between elliptical post-punk, harmonious folk jangle, and rockabilly roar, without ever fitting into standard genre patterns," the 4AD Throwing Muses biography says. The Throwing Muses 1986 UK tour, the Boston-based Pixies, were the opening band on their first European tour.

The band signed a Sire/Reprise Records contract in 1987 and began touring in the United States and Europe, with Hersh writing the majority of the songs. After Donelly left the band after 1991's The Real Ramona, the band became a trio.

Hersh began performing as an acoustic performer on Sire/Reprise and 4AD in 1994, beginning with Hips and Makers, an album sparsely arranged around her vocals, guitar, and a cellist, in comparison to her band's characteristic, electric sound. Michael Stipe of R.E.M. On this first solo album, he appeared. Hersh moved to Rykodisc for the band's 1996 album, Limbo, after receiving some airplay and major media coverage for the Throwing Muses album University in 1995, and released her solo album, Strange Angels, in 1998.

She founded the ThrowingMusic label in 1996 with then-husband and manager Billy O'Connell to better manage her career and the distribution of her recorded work. She was able to co-launch some of her schemes, including a continuing download-subscription service called Works in Progress (WIP) for the first time on the label's website. Hersh continued to publish solo on the internet, launching Sky Motel in 1999.

Throwing Muses is a noncommercial musical company focusing on touring over record sales and airplay. "As far as I'm concerned, music is not a commodity," Hersh said in a 2014 interview. People have earned it by being human. They have the right to hear it and the right to post it, as they always have in churches and parties. "That's how music comes."

Hersh released the Sunny Border Blue solo album in 2001, on which she performed almost every instrument. As she continued her quest for songwriting as a way to turn "ugly feelings" into art, she described the album as having even more vigor than her previous efforts. Vic Chesnutt, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Grant Lee Phillips, and John Doe all collaborated with like-minded alternative artists such as Vic Chesnutt, Willard Grant Conspiracy.

In 2003, she released The Grotto, an acoustic solo album of song sketches with personal lyrics set in Providence, Rhode Island, with Andrew Bird on violin and Howe Gelb on piano. Throwing Muses' self-titled album was also released on the same date, the first since Limbo. Both were shot in Rhode Island by Steve Rizzo's studio. Hersh formed her power rock band 50FootWave when Narcizo was unable to tour on a full time due to other commitments. Both 50 Foot Wave and her solo career were among her touring appearances and recording efforts in 2004 and 2005.

Learn to Sing Like a Star, Hersh's first solo album in four years, was released in 2007. Hersh's "emotional and raw" pop songs were both "accessible and off-kilter," according to NPR. Donita Sparks, a fellow singer, launched CASH Music, a subscription-based, direct-to-consumer website. Fans can sign up to become "Strange Angels" and watch videos of her output, download music, and guest spots on live shows (executive producer credit on her second album). The album Crooked was released as a digital album and hardback book with essays about each track.

Throwing Muses reformed in 2013 and released Purgatory/Paradise, a 32-track album accompanied by a book by Narcizo, a graphic designer. Hersh's book includes photographs, artwork, and lyrics. It was the band's first appearance in ten years.

Hersh's output was unashamed online at this point in her career. "We wanted to break the music business morally," she said. I've been asked to act and look like a bimbo so many times, but I've recently decided, 'I'm not going to turn my back on my music.' I'm not going to turn my back on women.' We're contractually obligated not to work in the traditional recording business because we disagree with it. We also enjoy music, which has nothing to do with the music industry.

Wyatt at the Coyote Place and an accompanying book were released in October 2016. Hersh began a tour to promote the album.

Hersh revealed on her website on June 12, 2018 that she had signed with Fire Records. Possible Dust Clouds, her latest hit, was released on October 5, 2018. In May of the same year, she completed recording the album for the second year.

Throwing Muses would debut Sun Racket on May 22 in February 2020, but the unveiling of the album was postponed to September 4.

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