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Natalie Merchant Biography

Natalie Merchant is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on October 26, 1963 in Jamestown, New York, United States. The rock singer and lyricist for 10,000 Maniacs, an alternative rock band. He also had a solo career, releasing numerous top twenty singles such as “Carnival.”

On the song “Hello in There”, she collaborated with Michael Steipe.

Natalie Anne Merchant (born October 26, 1963) is an American alternative rock singer-songwriter. She joined the folk rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981, and was lead vocalist and primary lyricist for the group. She remained with the group for their first seven albums and left it to begin her solo career in 1993. She has since released seven studio albums.

She has been a vegetarian since 1980, except for the duration of her pregnancy when she temporarily resumed eating meat. In 1997, she said:

In 2003, she had a daughter together with Daniel De la Calle.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Merchant started working in a health food store at 16. She considered a career in special education after taking part in a summer program for disabled children, but in 1981 she started singing for a band, Still Life, that became 10,000 Maniacs.

Natalie Merchant Net Worth

Natalie Merchant is one of the richest Rock Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Natalie Merchant's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At sixteen, she left high school to work in a grocery shop.

In 1995, she released her solo album Tigerlily, which was five times platinum.

Natalie Merchant was born October 26, 1963, in Jamestown, New York, United States, the third of four children of Anthony and Anne Merchant. Her paternal grandfather, who played the accordion, mandolin and guitar, emigrated to the United States from Sicily; his surname was “Mercante” before it was Anglicized.

Merchant met Michael Stipe of the band R.E.M. in 1983. The two became close friends and eventually had a romantic relationship. The two credit each other as inspirations for some of their songwriting. In an interview with The Independent, Stipe said “Natalie was really the reason my work became politicised in the late Eighties.”

When Merchant was a child, her mother listened to music (primarily Petula Clark but also the Beatles, Al Green, Aretha Franklin) and encouraged her children to study music, but would not allow TV after Natalie was 12. “I was taken to the symphony a lot because my mother loved classical music. But I was dragged to see Styx when I was 12. We had to drive 100 miles to Buffalo, New York. Someone threw up next to me and people were smoking pot. It was terrifying. I remember Styx had a white piano which rose out of the stage. It was awe-inspiring and inspirational.” “She [her mother] had show tunes, she had the soundtrack from West Side Story and South Pacific. And then eventually… she’d always liked classical music and then she married a jazz musician, so that’s the kind of music I was into. I never really had friends who sat around and listened to the stereo and said ‘hey, listen to this one’, so I’d never even heard of who Bob Dylan was until I was 18.” Merchant says she did not have a TV between 1988 and 1989: “I grew up in a house where no one watched the news on television and no one read the paper. I’ve been discovering these things as I get older, and the news has affected me more than it ever has before.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Merchant was lead singer and primary lyricist for 10,000 Maniacs, joining in its infancy in 1981 while she was a student at Jamestown Community College. The group recorded their album Human Conflict Number Five, and recorded a corresponding music video at the Hotel Franklin and at Group W Westinghouse studios in Jamestown, New York, in 1982. Merchant sang lead vocals, and later played the piano as well on seven studio albums with 10,000 Maniacs. In 1993 she announced that she was leaving the group. Her last recording with the band, a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s and Patti Smith’s “Because the Night” at the 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged performance, reached #11 in the singles chart, becoming the band’s highest-charting song in the U.S.

In 1998, Merchant collaborated on the making of the Woody Guthrie tribute album Mermaid Avenue with Billy Bragg and Wilco, that also featured previously unreleased Guthrie material. She provided vocals for the song “Birds and Ships”, and later showed up on the second volume of the album in year 2000, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, with vocals on the song “I Was Born”.

Who is Natalie Merchant Dating?

According to our records, Natalie Merchant married to Daniel de la Calle. As of December 1, 2023, Natalie Merchant’s is not dating anyone.

After her split with 10,000 Maniacs, Merchant was so eager to begin writing her own material that she went home that very day and composed the song “I May Know the Word”, which was originally meant to appear on the soundtrack to the Tom Hanks movie Philadelphia. The song was eventually cut from the soundtrack, but it would go on to appear on Merchant’s debut solo album, Tigerlily, which was released on the Elektra label in 1995. Merchant chose to name the album that as she felt it captured the album’s feel, which she described as both “fierce” and “delicate”.

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The first single off the album was a happy and uncharacteristically simple song called “Kind and Generous”, which received massive airplay on VH1 and which solidified Merchant’s role as a bona fide solo artist. That summer, Sarah McLachlan invited Merchant to co-headline the year’s biggest music festival with her, Lilith Fair. The exposure from the tour helped the album reach Platinum status in just under a year, with subsequent singles “Break Your Heart” and “Life Is Sweet” receiving moderate airplay on adult contemporary stations. No video was filmed for the latter, however, with a clip from Merchant’s appearance on VH1 Storytellers being used instead. She would also go on to appear on PBS’ Sessions at West 54th and VH1’s Hard Rock Live before the year’s end. In 1998, Merchant also recorded George Gershwin’s “But Not for Me” for the Red Hot Organization’s compilation album Red Hot + Rhapsody, a tribute to George Gershwin, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease.

What ethnicity is Natalie Merchant?

Natalie Merchant was born October 26, 1963, in Jamestown, New York, the third of four children of Anthony and Anne Merchant. Her paternal grandfather, who played the accordion, mandolin and guitar, emigrated to the United States from Sicily; his surname was “Mercante” before it was Anglicized.

What was Natalie Merchant's biggest hit?

#1 – Kind & Generous.

How old is Natalie Merchant today?

58 years (October 26, 1963)

How tall is Natalie Merchant?

5′ 1″

Did Natalie Merchant and Michael Stipe date?

In 1983, Stipe met fellow musician Natalie Merchant of the band 10,000 Maniacs; the two started a friendship, and eventually had a romantic relationship for a period of time.

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