Laurie Anderson is an experimental performance artist, visual artist and musician Regardless of the medium, a common characteristic of all her work seems to be the act of storytellingLaura Phillips Anderson was born June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States She attended Mills College in California, and eventually graduated from Barnard College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, studying art history In 1972, she obtained an MFA in sculpture from Columbia UniversityShe performed in New York through the 1970s Two early pieces, "New York Social Life" and "Time to Go," were included in the 1977 compilation New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media, along with works by Pauline Oliveros and othersShe became more widely known in 1982 with the single "O Superman," originally released in a limited quantity by One Ten Records; a sudden influx of orders from the UK (prompted by British DJ John Peel playing the record) led to Anderson signing with the Warner Brothers label, which re-released the single
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