Who is Ani DiFranco? See Net-worth, Quote, Awards, Fact, Wiki

Angela Marie Difranco Wiki Biography

Ani Difranco began Righteous Babe Records in the beginning of the 1990s and has released almost a plethora of albums. While most are her own, she has also collaborated with Utah Phillips on two albums. Ani is committed to her independency and the her art. 

Full Name Ani DiFranco
Net Worth $10 Million
Date Of Birth September 23, 1970
Place Of Birth Buffalo, New York, USA
Height 5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
Profession Soundtrack, Composer, Actress
Nationality American
Spouse Mike Napolitano (m. 2009), Andrew Gilchrist (m. 1998–2003), 32 Flavors, Both Hands, Untouchable Face, Dublin 8, Ireland, London, United Kingdom
Children Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano, Dante DiFranco Napolitano, 32 Flavors, Both Hands, Untouchable Face, Dublin 8, Ireland, London, United Kingdom
Parents Elizabeth Ross DiFranco, Dante Americo DiFranco, 32 Flavors, Both Hands, Untouchable Face, Dublin 8, Ireland, London, United Kingdom
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/anidifranco
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/anidifranco
Google+ http://plus.google.com/115749204479116019458
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/righteousbabe
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226459
Awards Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
Nominations Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
Movies Ani DiFranco: Trust, Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco, Ani Difranco: Live At Babeville, The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1, Radical Harmonies, Dead Man Walking: The Concert, Bi the Way, Dublin 8, Ireland, London, United Kingdom
Quote
1 When I showed up shave-headed and army-booted and pierced in places people were talking about, I can’t tell you how welcoming they were. There was, of course, the sort of stodgy folk-Nazis within the community, but the dudes who really knew what was up looked through the different uniform and style and said, ‘Here is somebody young doing the work. ‘Welcome, and bring your teenagers with you’. It was a real embracing environment for me. I got to learn from the masters.
2 My songs are the one place where I won’t mince my words. One on one, I have a lot of fear and inhibition. I think this is why I am so bold in my songs. It is my one place that I have carved out to do that, be that. They have gotten me and a lot of other people into a lot of trouble over the years. My guitar has this truth serum in it, and lo! the people that wander into my canon.
3 All decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked “other”.
4 Who has turned feminism into a dirty word? One of the things that bugs the s**t out of me is the fact that we can’t even use the word “feminist” these days. It’s been made taboo by a conservative media. The feminist movement in this country is one of the most powerful human liberation movements the planet has seen… so, to let this sort of conservative culture steal the feminist history from our consciousness and steal the respect from the people who fought and died so we could have such liberty is a travesty.
Fact
1 Her mother, who is from Montreal, is of Scottish and English ancestry. Her father, a native of Erie, Pennsylvania, was the son of Italian immigrants.
2 Gave birth to their daughter, Petah Lucia, weighting 7 lbs, 8 oz, on January 20, 2007.
3 Released her 14th album of all-original material on January 25, 2005. The CD contains 12 songs and is titled “Knuckle Down.”
4 Musical influences include John Hassell, Maceo Parker, Greg Brown, Utah Phillips, Gillian Welch, Bruce Springsteen, the Indigo Girls, Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie and Miles Davis.
5 Bought a church in downtown Buffalo to make as a recording studio.
6 Released her 13th studio album of all-original material, titled “Educated Guess,” on January 20, 2004.
7 Ranked #90 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
8 Her first name is pronounced, ‘ahn-knee,’ not Annie, as in Little Orphan Annie.
9 Released her 12th studio album, titled ‘Evolve’ on March 11, 2003. As with all her albums, it was distributed by her own record label, Righteous Babe Records.
10 Lists ‘Danielle LoPresti”s “Dear Mr. Penis Head” (1999) as one of her favorite recent albums. LoPresti has often been compared to Ms. Difranco.
11 She and Jesse L. Martin (Ally McBeal (1997), Law & Order (1990)) graduated from high school, together.
12 Her albums ‘Not a Pretty Girl’ (1995), ‘Dilate’ (1996), and ‘Little Plastic Castles’ (1998) were among the more critically lauded releases of the 1990s.
13 Recent releases on her Righteous Babe Records include ‘Sara Lee (III)’s “Make it Beautiful” and ‘Bitch & Animal”s “Eternally Hard”.
14 Is a committed feminist, and did not her take husband’s name in marriage.
15 Has played at benefits for convicted cop-murderer Mumia abu-Jamal and the Green Party.

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
The Red Card 2015 Short performer: “As Is” / writer: “As Is”
The Armor of Light 2015 Documentary arranger: “Amazing Grace” / performer: “Amazing Grace”
Satisfaction 2014 TV Series performer – 1 episode
Love, Marilyn 2012 Documentary performer: “All of Me”
Lola Versus 2012 performer: “Both Hands” / writer: “Both Hands”
So You Think You Can Dance Canada 2011 TV Series performer – 1 episode
Spoonfed Reality 2011 Documentary performer: “Animal” / writer: “Animal”
Remember Me 2010 performer: “Soft Shoulder” / writer: “Soft Shoulder”
Mississippi Damned 2009 performer: “Pixie” / writer: “Pixie”
So You Think You Can Dance 2008 TV Series performer – 1 episode
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub 2008 Documentary performer: “4th Of July” / writer: “4th Of July”
Nip/Tuck TV Series performer – 1 episode, 2007 writer – 1 episode, 2007
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind 2007 Documentary arranger: “The International” / performer: “The International”
Online 2006 Short performer: “Little Plastic Castle” / writer: “Little Plastic Castle”
Love & Suicide 2006 Video performer: “Bodily” / writer: “Bodily”
20 centímetros 2005 writer: “Pixie”
Unconstitutional 2004 Video documentary arranger: “Amazing Grace” / performer: “Amazing Grace”
ScaredSacred 2004 Documentary performer: “Amazing Grace” – as Ani DiFranco / writer: “Amazing Grace” – as Ani DiFranco
The World According to Bush 2004 TV Movie documentary “Self-evident”
Burning Annie 2004 performer: “What How When Where Why Who” / writer: “What How When Where Why Who”
Out of Time 2003/I writer: “Joyful Girl” 1996
Du ska nog se att det går över 2003 Documentary performer: “Cloud Blood”, “Grey”, “So What” / writer: “Cloud Blood”, “Grey”, “So What”
Traumprinz in Farbe 2003 TV Movie performer: “Wishin’ and Hopin'” / producer: “Wishin’ and Hopin'”
The Event 2003 performer: “Your Next Bold Move” / writer: “Your Next Bold Move”
Independent Media in a Time of War 2003 Video documentary short performer: “Your Next Bold Move”
Piedras 2002 performer: “The Story” / writer: “The Story”
Wolf Girl 2001 TV Movie performer: “Freakshow” / writer: “Freakshow”
Lip Service 2001 performer: “Going Down”, “Out of Me Unto You” – as Ani DiFranco / writer: “Going Down”, “Out of Me Unto You” – as Ani DiFranco
Lost and Delirious 2001 performer: “You Had Time” – as Ani DiFranco / writer: “You Had Time” – as Ani DiFranco
The Last Supper 2000 Short arranger: “Amazing Grace” / performer: “Amazing Grace”, “Joyful Girl”, “Soft Shoulder” / writer: “Joyful Girl”, “Soft Shoulder”
Steal This Movie 2000 performer: “This Land Is Your Land”, “Abbie’s Song”, “When I’m Gone” – as Ani DiFranco / writer: “Abbie’s Song” – as Ani DiFranco
Better Than Chocolate 1999 performer: “32 Flavors”, “Shameless” / writer: “32 Flavors”, “Shameless”
Daria 1998 TV Series performer – 1 episode
Slaves to the Underground 1997 performer: “Buildings & Bridges” / writer: “Buildings & Bridges” – as A. DiFranco
The Hanging Garden 1997 performer: “The Million You Never Made” / writer: “The Million You Never Made”
My Best Friend’s Wedding 1997 performer: “Wishin’ And Hopin'” / producer: “Wishin’ And Hopin'”
All Over Me 1997 performer: “Shy” / writer: “Shy”
She’s the One 1996 performer: “Worthy” – as Ani DiFranco / writer: “Worthy” – as Ani DiFranco

Composer

Title Year Status Character
Ani DiFranco: Live at Babeville 2008
Avería de la conciencia 2005 Short music by
Ani DiFranco: Trust 2004 Video documentary
Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco 2002 Video documentary
The Last Supper 2000 Short

Actress

Title Year Status Character
Ani DiFranco: Live at Babeville 2008
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2005 TV Series Musical Guest
King of the Hill 1998 TV Series Emily

Director

Title Year Status Character
Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco 2002 Video documentary

Writer

Title Year Status Character
Ani DiFranco: Live at Babeville 2008

Editor

Title Year Status Character
Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco 2002 Video documentary

Music Department

Title Year Status Character
David Blaine: Drowned Alive 2006 TV Movie documentary additional music by

Self

Title Year Status Character
The Shopkeeper: A Documentary About Mark Hallman and the Congress House 2016 Documentary completed Herself
My First Guitar 2011 Documentary Herself
Music 2010 Documentary Herself
Sounds Like a Revolution 2010 Documentary
Gulf Aid: Concert for the Coast 2010 TV Movie Herself
Live from the Artists Den 2009 TV Series Herself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 2000-2008 TV Series Herself – Musical Guest / Herself
Bi the Way 2008 Documentary Herself – Interviewee
Late Night with Conan O’Brien 1996-2007 TV Series Herself
Decades Rock Live 2007 TV Series Herself
Satyagraha: 100 Years of Nonviolence 2006 Video short Herself
The Henry Rollins Show 2006 TV Series Herself
Fighting for Life in the Death-Belt 2005 Documentary Narrator
Def Poetry 2004 TV Series documentary Herself
Ani DiFranco: Trust 2004 Video documentary Herself
Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco 2002 Video documentary Herself
Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century 2001 Documentary Herself
You Don’t Know What I Got 2000 Documentary
The Righteous Babes 1998 TV Movie documentary Herself
Late Show with David Letterman 1998 TV Series Herself – Musical Guest
Hard Rock Live 1997 TV Series Performer
Sessions at West 54th 1997 TV Series documentary Herself
The Blue Hermaphrodite 1996 Short Herself

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2008 BMI Cable Award BMI Film & TV Awards State of Mind (2007)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1998 OFTA Film Award Online Film & Television Association Best Music, Adapted Song My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

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