Poe

Poe joined others singing in the music video that included a video clip of John Lennon that spearheads a global campaign by UNICEF to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Born in New York City and daughter of Polish film director Tad Z. Danielewski and his wife Priscilla Decatur Machold, Poe and her brother, novelist Mark Z. Danielewski, lived in six different countries before she turned eight.

Her father's film directing took the family to Africa, India, Spain, Switzerland, England, and the United States.

When Poe was 12, her father moved his family to Provo, Utah where Poe attended junior high school and some of high school.

When Poe's parents divorced, Poe, then 16, left home and moved to New York City where she lived in a squat on the lower east side of Manhattan while attempting to connect with her estranged mother.

Poe continued submitting schoolwork to her high school in Utah and eventually graduated.

She pursued her undergraduate studies at Princeton University, where she organized her first band.

Poe began experimenting with musical samplers and sequencers as a teenager.

Noteworthy are her early collaborations with J Dilla of Slum Village.

Poe's musical influences ranged "from Black Flag to Bob Dylan -- from Billie Holiday to Tribe Called Quest" according to music writer Stephen Grecco.

Poe (born Anne Decatur Danielewski; March 23, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Poe's musical style is a blend of rock, jazz, electronica, folk, and hip hop elements combined with intimate lyrical compositions.

Many of Poe's songs have been featured in films and on television.

Poe was signed to Modern/Atlantic Records in 1994 on the strength of the demos she made with J Dilla and RJ Rice in RJ's living room in Detroit.

Poe first hit the modern rock charts in 1995.

Some of her early charting singles included "Angry Johnny", "Trigger Happy Jack", "Hello", and "Hey Pretty."

Videos for these singles had heavy rotation on MTV.

Poe spent six years with Atlantic Records and is currently on her own label, Repoezessed Music Records.

Noteworthy was Poe's early involvement with her online community of fans.

Her web site, and the fan sites that supported her early in her career, predated modern social networking platforms and were among the first of their kind.

Poe's first album, Hello, was released in 1995.

Musically, the album was described as a sample-rich amalgam of hip-hop, rock, and jazz.

Lyrically, the album was filled with literary allusions, film nods, comic book references, and psychological irony.

The CD was critically acclaimed.

Hits Magazine called "Hello" an "over-the-top PoMo masterpiece."

In an interview on Spotify's Landmark series discussing the making of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, Glen Ballard quoted "Hello was probably the biggest influence I had at that time, honestly, because it was a brilliant record that had jazz influence, hip hop, electronic, rock. It was a hybrid of the first degree."

Not long after the album's release, Poe's single, "Trigger Happy Jack (Drive By a Go-Go)" broke into the top 20 of the Billboard Alternative and Modern Rock chart.

"Trigger Happy Jack" was produced by Dave Jerden (Jane's Addiction, Alice in Chains) and Jeffrey Connor and featured Matt Sorum (of Guns N' Roses) on drums and Dean Pleasants (of Suicidal Tendencies) on guitar.

On January 28, 1996, The New York Times named Poe, along with Alanis Morissette, among the defining voices of the current "movement in music" which featured "angry" female artists who were "...articulate, sexually explicit, both lover and fighter...(women who) reject self-pity and refuse to define themselves purely in terms of their connection to men."

In September 1996, Glamour published a picture of Poe, with a snarl on her face and wearing a tee-shirt on which she had written the words, "Happy-Well-Adjusted Female."

In the accompanying interview, Poe says "I don't think 'Angry' really sums it up at all!"

In the November 14, 1996, issue of Rolling Stone, Poe's album, "Hello," attained a position on the Reader's Top Ten Chart.

Poe began her first major tour in January 1996, as the opening act for Lenny Kravitz.

Atlantic Records' Senior Vice President of New Media, Nikki Sleight, referred to Poe's online power and one-on-one communication with thousands attending her concerts as "unheard of and pretty phenomenal" in Sleight's 1997 interview with Web Magazine.

and in August 1997, Esquire named Poe, along with Gwen Stefani, Lil' Kim, and Sarah McLachlan among the top five "Women Who Rock Our World".

Pollstar Magazine reported in 1998 that Poe had performed for approximately 600 shows in a two-year time period.

She and her touring band (Daris Adkins on Guitar, Dan Marfisi "Jones" on Drums, Toby Skard on bass/ and Cameron Stone on cello) then continued touring extensively as headliners and at festivals until 1999, when she stopped to begin pre-production on her second album for Atlantic.

In 2004, she co-founded the digital innovations agency Signature Creative Inc with John Gheur.

In September 2014, Poe received the title of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador due to her invitation by Yoko Ono to participate in a UNICEF campaign and her donated performance.

The campaign launched a world version of John Lennon's classic song "Imagine" featuring dozens of musical artists from around the world.