Poe (singer)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Poe

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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Annie Decatur Danielewski
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Origin = New York City, U.S.
Instrument = Vocals, Guitar
Occupation = Musician, songwriter
Years_active = 1995 - present
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Annie Decatur Danielewski (born March 23, 1968), professionally known as Poe, is a American singer and songwriter. She first hit the modern rock charts in the mid-1990s. Poe is the daughter of Polish film director Tad Danielewski and his wife, Priscilla Machold. She is also the sister of author Mark Z. Danielewski. Poe's musical style is an unusual blend of folk, rock, and electronica elements backing intimate lyrical compositions. Poe is known to have a dating relationship with prized painter, Peter Max, a relationship some say may have been set-up by her management for publicity.Fact|date=September 2008

Poe's influential music attracted National Artists Management in Los Angeles, California. National Artists was part of a American marketing agency that worked with major label artists. Joel Grossman, L.A. radio host and producer Mike Quinn, Michael Scurlock, and Debbie Mack ran the company that drove Poe to be one of the most sought after rock females in the 1990s by major record companies. Poe was signed to Atlantic Records in 1995.

History

Annie grew up in Provo, Utah, where her father was a well known professor at Brigham Young University. She eventually began pursuing her undergraduate studies at Princeton University where she organized her first band. Her first album, "Hello", was released in 1995. Her debut single, "Angry Johnny", got much radio and MTV airplay.

As an artist who tours small clubs continuously, she was unable to produce a second album until 2000's "Haunted". Poe included her late father on Haunted after discovering cassette tapes containing his voice. But listening to them the first time proved so difficult that she was hesitant to use them in her music. "I took these tapes home and I couldn't listen to them," Poe explains. "It was too hard, so I kept finding ways to avoid it. They were sitting on my coffee table next to a boombox." [Baltin, S: “The Haunting Return of Poe”, Rollingstone, 2000.] The album also dovetails with themes and concepts from her brother Mark's postmodern novel "House of Leaves"; the CD and the book were released simultaneously. Ann and Mark toured together across America at Borders Books and Music locations in support of the album and the novel. A remix of the song, "Hey Pretty", featured Mark reading a passage from the novel. It was released on one of the "Haunted" singles and became a radio hit. Hey Pretty was also the theme to a short-lived MTV soap opera "Spyder Games". The show usually ended with bits of the risque video or a picture of the single's cover. In 10 Things I Hate About You the character of Kat has the Poe ball on her schoolbook.

Poe started a campaign which she referred to as the "Re-POE-Session", an attempt to gain control of her master recordings from her former record label, Atlantic Records, because they refused to re-release her albums although she was still under contract. Her dedicated fan base, "The Angry Psychos", supported her fight by passing a "Poe Ball" around the country to show their support. In 2004, both albums were re-released on CD by FEI/Sheridan Square Records, and in downloadable form on various online music stores.

According to statements on her official forum Poe has (or had) started work on a third album, but details are sketchy and several years have passed since the first announcement. Her most recent work includes collaborations with Rhys Fulber's solo project, Conjure One. She has had a part in the writing and singing of five songs on Conjure One's albums: "Center of the Sun" and "Make a Wish" on the self-titled first album and "Endless Dream," "One Word" and "Extraordinary Way" on Extraordinary Ways. She is credited as Jane on this later album.

Poe appeared in the movie "Gossip" performing the song "My Lips are Sealed" (a cover of The Go-Go's' "Our Lips Are Sealed"), and as a CGI character, Mary Magdalene/Plague, in the PlayStation game, "Apocalypse". "Apocalypse" also featured an alternate version of her song, "Control", later released on "Haunted".

In November 2007 Poe began collecting MP3 recordings of dream accounts on her website [http://www.repoezessed.com/ Repoezessed] .

References

Discography

Albums

*"Hello" (1995) Gold
*"Haunted" (2000)

ingles

*"Trigger Happy Jack (Drive by a Go-Go)" (1995) (#27 Modern Rock)
*"Angry Johnny" (1995) (#7 Modern Rock hit)
*"Hello" (1996) (#13 Modern Rock, #1 Dance hit)
*"Today" (Promo 1998)
*"Rise and Shine" Charity Single (1998)
*"Control" (Promo 1998)
*"Walk the Walk" (Promo, 2000)
*"Hey Pretty" Drive-by 2001 remix (Promo, 2001) (#13 Modern Rock, #30 Adult Top 40)
*"Wild" (Promo, 2001)

Unreleased/compilation

*"Endless Dream," "One Word," and "Extraordinary Way" with Conjure One (credited as "Jane") (2005)
*"Center of the Sun" and "Make a Wish" with Conjure One (2002)
*"My Lips are Sealed" (cover) on the "Gossip" soundtrack (1999)
*"Strange Wind" on the "Anywhere But Here" Soundtrack (1999)
*"Which Way To The Top?" (additional vocals) on Fastball's "All the Pain Money Can Buy" (1998)
*"I Can't Say No" (an Oklahoma! showtune cover) on the "Welcome to Woop Woop" Soundtrack (1998)
*"A Rose is a Rose" on the various artist album, "Lounge-a-palooza" (1997)
*"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" (1996) originally on KROQ's "Kevin & Bean's Christmastime In The LBC" and then re-released in 1997 on "The Best of Kevin and Bean: A Family Christmas in Your Ass".

ee also

*List of number-one dance hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
*Conjure One
*Mononymous persons

External links

*imdb name|id=0688091|name=Poe
* [http://www.repoezessed.com/ Official Poe Website]