Who is Laurie Anderson

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Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. -- Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson is a performance artist and musician who first captured public attention with her single "O Superman" back in 1980.  In April 2008, after 16 years as an unmarried couple, she wed fellow musician Lou Reed.

Laurie Anderson at a Glance 

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.

Anderson has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds."The Performing Artistry of Laurie Anderson," by Don Shewey

On April 12, 2008, Anderson married longtime companion Lou Reed in a private ceremony in Boulder, Colorado.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20080501_laurie.shtml "Laurie & Lou's big day"], BBC Radio 6 Music (bbc.co.uk), May 1, 2008 (accessed May 6, 2008)

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Big Science

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Home Of The Brave: A Film By Laurie Anderson (1986 Film)

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Laurie Anderson is one of today's premier performance artists. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
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Called "America's multi-mediatrix" by Wired magazine and a "modern renaissance artist and agent provocateur"
Moon and Stars Align for Performance Artist (washingtonpost.com)
Performance artist Laurie Anderson thought the phone call was a prank.

How would you like to be NASA's artist-in-residence?

The offer was legit: The space agency was bestowing a $20,000 commission on the 57-year-old Anderson to produce a piece of work completely at her creative freedom.

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Laurie Anderson Videos 


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Laurie Anderson - Mach 20

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Laurie Anderson - "National Debt"

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Laurie Anderson / Only An Expert / Maybe if I Fall

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Marc Ribot and Laurie Anderson - Live @ the Stone, NYC 2008

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Laurie Anderson - interview Swedish TV 2007

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Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson ' Haloween Parade '

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Laurie Anderson and her Musical Head

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Laurie Anderson on Art and War

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