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Fiona Apple (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. Her first two albums, Tidal ( 1996) and When the Pawn ( 1999), have sold over five million copies worldwide.
Fiona Apple is a member of a family rich with roots in entertainment. Born Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart in New York City, she is the daughter of singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. Her older sister, Amber Taleullah, sings cabaret under the stage name Maude Maggart. Her brother Spencer is a director and directed the video for her single "Parting Gift." Her half brother Garett Maggart starred in the TV series The Sentinel. In addition, her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a flapper-era group similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist of the big band era; her grandparents met while touring with Johnny Hamp and his Orchestra.
At the age of 12, Apple was raped upon returning home from school to her mother's apartment. The rape is mentioned subtly in some of her work, but is not necessarily a major theme.
Examples:
"Fast as You Can": I let the beast in too soon / I don't know how to live without my hand on his throat / I fight him always and still
"Sullen Girl": Is that why they call me a sullen girl - sullen girl / They don’t know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea / But he washed me ashore and he took my pearl / And left an empty shell of me
While the media latched onto the story of her dark past experience, making her what Apple referred to as "the poster child for rape," the singer says the only reason she even mentioned the rape to an interviewer was because she didn't want it to seem like something of which she should be ashamed.
As a child, there was concern she had anti-social tendencies, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder. She underwent therapy as a child after telling a childhood friend that she was going to kill herself as well as her older sister Amber when she was 11 years old. This prompted several therapy sessions which ultimately led her to believe that there must actually be something wrong with her if she required therapy.
