Joanna Newsom's biography
Joanna Caroline Newsom is 40 years old singer-songwriter born at Grass Valley. Joanna was born on Monday 18th of January 1982. She is often nicknamed as Joanna Newsom Samberg. According to year of birth 1982 she belongs to Millennials. Birthday on 18th of January means she is Capricorn. These people are stable in nature. As the sign lord is “Saturn”, the person will be judgemental in his approach.
She is native english speaker. She is white american. Joanna is citizen of United States of America. Joanna is an adherent of christianity. Joanna´s primary profession is to be singer-songwriter. You can know Joanna also as actor, musician, singer, composer, pianist, television actor, film actor, harpsichordist. Joanna is recently known as recording artist.
Joanna Newsom's family
Joanna Newsom's ex husband
Andy Samberg
Joanna Newsom and Andy Samberg have been together. He is known as actor. Her ex husband was born on Friday 18th of August 1978 in Berkeley.
Joanna Newsom's schools
We found 2 schools Joanna attended. Complete list of schools: Mills College at Northeastern, Nevada Union High School.
Detailed informations about Joanna´s schools
Joanna studied high school - Waldorf school.
She studied university - Mills College in Oakland, California.
Joanna Newsom's career
Joanna´s main focus is to be singer-songwriter and composing. She is famous thanks to Harp player and being the girlfriend of Andy Samberg. Maybe you are curious what instrument does she play ? Joanna plays piano.
Is Joanna Newsom gay ?
She is known to be straight.
Awards and competitions
Joanna Newsom's Nominations
- Joanna was nominated for Shortlist Music Prize for work Ys in 2006
What else you don't know about Joanna Newsom ?
Joanna´s middle name is Caroline.
Joanna Newsom's quotes
- I would happy for someone to download my music.
- I am always trying to write.
- I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
- I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
- I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
- I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
- I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
- I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
- I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
- I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
- I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
- I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
- I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
- I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
- I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
- I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
- People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.
- The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.
- You should listen to a lot of different music.
- I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.
- I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
- I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
- In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.
- It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.
- It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.
- Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
- People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.
- The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
- Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.
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Joanna Newsom's height, body shape, eye color
Lets describe how Joanna Newsom looks. We will focus on Joanna´s height, body shape, eye color and hair color. She is tall as 5' 4" (163 cm). Body build is slim. Her eyes are tinted green. Joanna´s hair is shade of brown - light.
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