FeistL’auteure-compositrice-interprète Feist ©Getty – David Wolff – Patrick/Redferns per wikipedia:Leslie Feist, (b.2/13/76) is known mononymously as Feist; she’s a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene. Early YearsLeslie was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her parents are both…
Category: Women Music March 2026
WMM 2026 Day 8 — Basia Bulat
Basia Bulat I wanted to make a bit of a landscape for this timeI was in. I wanted to celebrate what I have.–Basia Bulat, regarding her album, “Basia’s Palace,” in an interview at CKUA per wikipedia:Barbara Josephine Bulat, known professionally as Basia Bulat, is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is known for performing with an autoharp….
WMM 2026 Day 7 — Yoko Sen
Yoko Sen Some of my friends say to me, “Yoko, you’re a musician. Just create soothing music and license it to hospitals. You don’t need to do all this research!” But it’s very important to me that my work — the sound I create — is evidence-based. I want to be at the intersection of…
WMM 2026 Day 6 — Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-47)
Portrait of Fanny Hensel, 1842.Artist: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882) Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (b. 11/14/1805 – d. 5/14/1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, later known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and as Fanny Hensel. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for…
WMM 2026 Day 5 — Wendy Waldman
Wendy Waldman, image from Wendy’s website from wiki:Wendy Waldman (nee Wendy Steiner) (b. 11/29/50) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.Waldman grew up in the Los Angeles area and was raised in a musical environment. Her father, Fred Steiner, was a composer who wrote the theme music for Perry Mason and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show; her mother was a…
WMM 2026 Day 3 — Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman “Now what kind of an attitude is that, ‘These things happen?’ They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, ‘These things happen,’ and that’s why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.” ~ Ethel Merman Ethel Merman (born Ethel…
WMM 2026 Day 2 — Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf Édith Giovanna Gassion (b.12/29/15 – d. 10/10/63) known as Édith Piaf, was a French singer and lyricist best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France’s greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century. Early LifeThe name “Édith” was inspired by British nurse Edith Cavell,…
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