Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh, 2007

Kristin Hersh (* 7. August 1966 in Atlanta , Georgia , as Martha Kristin Hersh ) is an American singer , guitarist and songwriter who primarily by the indie rock band Throwing Muses became known.

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Kristin Hersh was born in Atlanta as the daughter of philosophy professor William James Hersh ( Salve Regina University ), but grew up in Newport , Rhode Island . At nine she learned to play the guitar and was taught songwriting by her father. In the early 80s, she formed the band Throwing Muses with her stepsister Tanya Donelly . With this band she achieved an international breakthrough in the indie rock scene. In 1994 she also began a solo career. In 2008 she released individual tracks of 11 songs under a Creative Commons non-commercial license at ccMixter . As of July 4, 2014, 162 remixes were created from it.

Hersh is married to one of her managers, Billy O'Connell, and has four sons.

Works

Solo discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Hips and Makers   DE 61 02/28/1994 (10 weeks)   UK 7th 02/05/1994 (6 weeks)   US 197 02/19/1994 (1 week) Strange Angels   UK 64 02/14/1998 (1 week) Sunny border blue   UK 93 03/24/2001 (1 week)

Singles

Your Ghost (with Michael Stipe )   UK 45 01/22/1994 (4 weeks) Strings   UK 60 04/16/1994 (2 weeks) echo   UK 79 06/26/1999 (1 week)

Albums

• Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken (1992)
• Hips and Makers (1994)
• Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight (1998)
• Strange Angels (1998)
• Sky Motel (1999)
• Sunny Border Blue (2001)
• The Grotto (2003)
• Learn to Sing Like a Star (2007)
• Speedbath (2009)
• Cats and Mice (2010)
• Crooked (2010)
• Wyatt At The Coyote Palace (2017)
• Possible Dust Clouds (2018)

Singles and EPs

• Strings (1994, EP)
• Your Ghost , duet with Michael Stipe (1994, single)
• The Holy Single (1995, EP)
• Like You (1998, single)
• Echo (1999, single)
• A Cleaner Light (2000, EP)
• In Shock (2007, EP)

On the open source platform CASH Music , which she founded , Hersh offers a new song exclusively for download every month.

Books

• Toby Snax (2007)
• Rat Girl: A Memoir (2010; published in England as Paradoxical Undressing (2011))
• Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt (2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380903/bio
2. ↑ Profile at ccMixter
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE UK US
4. ↑ Giuliano Benassi: The front woman of Throwing Muses remains combative. In: laut.de. Retrieved November 3, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Philipp Kause: Imaginative lyrics to hard distortion tonics. In: laut.de. Retrieved November 3, 2018 . 

Web links

• Kristin Hersh in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Kristin Hersh on Myspace
• Kristin Hersh at laut.de
• Current downloads at CASH Music
• Interview with / report about Kristin Hersh at gaesteliste.de