Liz Phair

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Elizabeth Clark Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter best known for her blunt, honest, and explicit lyrics regarding sex and relationships.

Phair was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and mainly lived in the Chicago area at the time.

She started a musical career in San Francisco, California, but she returned to Chicago, where she began self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly Sound.

The tapes led to a recording deal with Matador Records, an independent record label. Exile in Guyville, her 1993 debut studio album, was released with critical acclaim; Rolling Stone has ranked it as one of the Top Albums of All Time.

Phair followed this with her second album, Whip-Smart (1994), which received her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and Whitechocolatespaceegg (1998).

Liz Phair, Phair's fourth album on Capitol Records, has shifted to pop rock, gaining her a mainstream audience ten years after the introduction of her debut on Capitol Records in 2003; "Why Can't I?" explains Phair's fourth album. Phair left Capitol and released her sixth album Funstyle independently in 2010.

In 2016, she appeared as an opening act for the Smashing Pumpkins.

Matador Records will debut a retrospective set for Phair's debut album Exile in Guyville in 2018, which includes remastered recordings from her original Girly Sound demo tapes.

Phair had sold over three million records worldwide as of 2011.

Early life

Phair was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 17, 1967. Nancy, a historian and museologist, and John Phair, later an AIDS researcher and head of infectious diseases at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, were adopted at birth; her mother later worked at the Art Institute of Chicago as a professor. She has one older brother who has also been adopted. Phair has said, "My parents were very responsible" before being adopted. They were amazing at it... I've never set out to find [my biological] parents. A friend who was adopted from the same household demanded information and got a four-page letter about her mother's life. "It was jaw-dropping," she said.

Phair lived in Cincinnati from the age of nine when her family and her family migrated to Winnetka, Illinois, in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka. In 1985, she graduated from New Trier High School. Phair was active in student government, yearbook, and the cross country team, as well as many other advanced-level classes during high school, and took AP Studio Art in AP Studio Art. She attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in 1990. Art history has a long tradition.

Personal life

Phair began dating film editor Jim Staskauskas in 1994. The couple married on March 11, 1995; their son James Nicholas Staskauskas was born on December 21, 1996.

Phair and Staskauskas divorced in 2001, after which Phair sold her house in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood and moved to Los Angeles, California. Phair lives in Manhattan Beach, California, as of 2018.

Phair was born a Christian.

She is a descendant of third-wave feminism.

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Career

Phair's musical career began when she met guitarist Chris Brokaw, a founding member of the band Come. Brokaw was dating one of Phair's relatives and stayed at their apartment in SoMa for one weekend. Phair was broke and returned to Chicago, returning to Chicago to her family's house after living in San Francisco for a year. She began writing lyrics and playing guitar, and recording songs on a four-track tape recorder in her bedroom. On these recordings, she used the name Girly Sound. She became involved with the Chicago alternative music scene in the early 1990s and became friends with Material Issue and Urge Overkill, two of Chicago's upstart bands to go national, as well as Brad Wood and John Henderson, the head of Feel Good All Over, an independent store in Chicago.

Phair called up Gerard Cosloy, co-president of Matador Records, who asked Wood who the "coolest" indie label was, and she asked him if she'd put out her album. Cosloy had just read a study of Girly Sound in Chemical Imbalance the day before, and Phair told Phair that he should give him a tape. Phair gave him a tape of six Girly Sound tracks. "The songs were amazing," Cosloy recalls. It was a relatively primitive track, particularly when compared to the forthcoming album. The songs were really smart, funny, and horribly sad, often at the same time. ... I loved it a lot and wanted to play it for everybody else. We don't usually sign people we haven't met or heard other records by, or seen as performers. But I had a hunch, and I called her back and said O.K."

Cosloy charged a $3,000 advance and Phair began working on a single that would later evolve into Exile's 18 songs.

Phair and Brad Wood, a Guyville exile, were born in 1993 and were released in 1993. The album received consistently high praise. The album received critical acclaim for its blunt, honest lyrics, as well as the music itself, a mix of indie rock and lo-fi, and Phair's penchant for investigating sexually explicit lyrics. By contrast, her trademark low, vibrato-less monotone voice gave several of her songs a more distinct, almost deadpan tone.

Phair's second album attracted a lot of media attention as well as an advertising campaign. Whip-Smart debuted at #27 in 1994, and "Supernova," the first single, became a Top ten modern rock hit, and MTV's video was often seen on MTV. The Phair was also featured on Rolling Stone's cover with the word "A Rock Star Is Born." The album received positive feedback, but not as well as the debut, but it was not as popular as the debut, but Gold was awarded (shipments of at least 500,000 units). It ultimately didn't do as well as expected, as it was hoped that the album would play Phair to a larger, more mainstream audience. Phair launched Juvenilia, a collection of some early Girly Sound tracks and a number of B-sides, as well as her interpretation of the 1980 hit "Turning Japanese," a whimsy video.

Phair appeared on Late Night With David Letterman performing "Never Said" and "Exile," and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno performing an acoustic version of "Whip-Smart" in 1994. On Good Morning America, she also performed "Alice Springs" live on Good Morning America.

She appeared on "Never Said," "6'1," "Cinco de Mayo," and "Supernova" live on MTV alternative rock show 120 Minutes between 1994 and early 1995.

Phair married film editor Jim Staskauskas, who had been producing her own films, in 1995. On December 21, 1996, they had a son, James Nicholas Staskauskas. In 2001, Phair and Staskauskas divorced.

After some delays, which included a content dispute, Phair's third album, Whitechocolatespaceegg, was released in 1998; at one point, Matador refused the album as submitted and asked Phair to write a few more radio-friendly songs for the set. The album featured a more mature Phair as well as a few of the ways marriage and motherhood affected her. Although the single "Polyester Bride" received some airplay and received many favorable feedback, it was no more commercially viable than her previous albums. Phair appeared at Lilith Fair in order to raise the bar at this level. Phair appeared on the main stage, as well as artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, and Missy Elliott. On her 1999 Junkie Tour, she opened for Alanis Morissette.

In the 2002 film Cherish, Phair played Brynn Allen, opposite Robin Tunney.

On the 2003 Sheryl Crow album "Soak Up the Sun," Phair provided vocal support. Phair released her self-titled fourth album on her new label, Capitol Records, in 2003. It was a change from Phair's earlier lo-fi sounds to more polished pop production and songwriting. Phair said she wanted to make more money from her music, so she recruited the Matrix, a pop artist, including Avril Lavigne, to produce some songs, including "Extraordinary" and "Why Can't I?" Liz Phair made her debut on the Billboard 200 at number 27.

"Why Can't I?"

For the first time, the Adult Top 40 and Hot Adult Contemporary charts were included in the Adult Top 40 and Hot Adult Contemporary charts, as well as its music video, which placed Phair in heavy rotation on VH1. It received mixed feedback, including negative reviews from the New York Times and Pitchfork, who accused Phair of selling out and mimicking younger artists. Matt LeMay, a Pitchfork analyst, has apologised for his review, claiming he had failed to acknowledge Phair's willingness to "try on different masks."

Phair's fifth album and final with Capitol Records was released in 2005. Some's Miracle, Phair's fifth album and final, was released on Capitol Records. It's back to a rocking sound. Pitchfork's Amy Phillips wrote: "Now this is a bad Liz Phair record." Anybody's Miracle is mainly generic pap that could have cranked out, a pointless piece of plastic poking a pointy heel in the eye of the artist Liz's remains," Phillips also said it was worse than her largely critical previous record. According to a MSNBC survey, the album was "less commercial [than her predecessor], but it was still smooth, indicating her increasing shift toward a more noticeable sound."

Phair signed with Dave Matthews' label ATO Records in early 2008 and re-released Exile in Guyville on June 24, 2008, on CD, vinyl, and in digital format, including three tracks from the original recording sessions, "Ant in Alaska," "Say You," and an unidentified instrumental, as well as a documentary DVD titled "Guyville Redux."

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Phair's "Faith and Tenderness," a new song that was exclusively released at Banana Republic on a compilation disc containing other artists, was released in May 2009. Following an invitation from her childhood friend Mike Kelley to score the show he was designing for CBS, Swingtown, based on their hometown life, Phair began working as a television composer in 2009. Phair wanted to bring in Doc Dauer, a body function music maker, The Body Rocks, where Phair performed after being welcomed in by Pete Yorn and Dauer's artistic partner Evan Frankfort. She continued to do it by writing the theme song for NBC's The Weber Show and serving on The CW's In Plain Sight and the CW's The Weber Show, for which she received the 2009 ASCAP award for Top Television Composer.

Phair's official website revealed a strange link to download her latest album Funstyle, which she unveiled directly after parting ways with Capitol Records and ATO. Until Phair took it down, the song "Bollywood" was available on the website for a limited period.

Phair's note to her followers on her official website explained why the songs were problematic: Phair's note to her followers explained why the songs were unusable:

Phair said in a Wall Street Journal interview that the ATO, her record name, fell out after a change in leadership. "The people who were still there didn't like, or didn't know what to do with," she explained, so we stalled out and I asked to leave."

Phair performed many songs from Guyville and Whip-Smart, as well as songs from the rest of her repertoire. From October 2010 to March 2011, the Funstyle Tour ran from October 2010 to March 2011. The tour's last performance took place at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

In 2012, she co-wrote and performed the song "Dotted Line" with A. R. Rahman for the film People Like Us. In an interview, she said, "I wrote for A. R. Rahman's film 'Welcome To People" in a 'Dotted Line.' "Both of them are amazing." 'Welcome To People' is a really moving film.' "I'm proud to be part of it."

Phair in late 2014 unveiled the dystopian holiday song "Ho Ho Ho Ho." Capitol unveiled a greatest hits collection of Phair's art in 2014, Icon.

Phair was the opening act for the Smashing Pumpkins on their In Plainsong tour in spring 2016.

Phair revealed on Twitter in late 2015 and mid-2016 that she planned to debut two albums by the end of 2016. Phair was spotted on a double album by fellow singer-songwriter Ryan Adams in his PAX-AM recording studio, and was confirmed by Twitter. Phair's Adams' proposal was never to be carried out. "My experience was nowhere near as personally involved," a Twitter user asked Phair for a comment about Adams in 2019, which she replied, "My experience was nowhere near as personally moving."

Phair's former label, Matador, was announced in 2018 that a 25th anniversary retrospective set for her debut album, Exile in Guyville; the collection, titled Girly Sound to Guyville, features remasters of Phair's 1991 demo tapes released under the moniker Girly Sound from the original sources, and was released on May 4. Phair embarked on two North American tours, the Girly Sound to Guyville Tour and the Amps on the Lawn Tour, in honor of this retrospective. Phair has been on tour throughout the summer of 2019.

Phair revealed on Instagram in April 2019 that she had been working on new studio content with Brad Wood, who made Exile in Guyville, Whip-Smart, and portions of whitechocolatespaceegg. Phair performed "Good Side," a song from these sessions, on October 8, 2019. In 2021, Soberish, her seventh album, will be released.

Liz Phair will appear on "Hanging on the Telephone" (Blondie and The Nerves), with former friend and collaborator Jim Ellison of Material Issue in April 2020. The song, as well as the Bio-documentary on Material Issue entitled "Out of Time: The Material Issue Story," will be published with the artist. It's the first song to be released by Phair and Ellison since they appeared on Turning Japanese and The Tra La La La La La Band's earlier covers (One Banana, Two Banana).

Phair reported in February 2021 that she had signed a deal with newly formed Chrysalis Records to release her album Soberish later this year. Brad Wood's album was first released in June and was remastered once more. It was one of Phair's best reviews since Guyville, possibly one of the best since Guyville. "A solid, well-written collection of durable, amusing songs that gradually unfold to reveal new depths of feeling," Pitchfork said on the album. Jon Dolan wrote "In Rolling Stone" that Soberish "brings to mind Guyville's past and its 1994 sequel, Whip-Smart, without feeling at all like self-conscious recapitulation." "Soberish acts as a reminder of Liz Phair's brilliance after years of underestimation," the NME writes. It's much more than just drawing on her most popular albums, it expands on the entire spectrum and uncovers newness within."

Phair was also scheduled to tour with Alanis Morissette on Morissette's postponed 2020 tour until 2021. She was forced to leave for undisclosed reasons.

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