Amanda Palmer

Person · Open Library

Born

30 Apr 1976

Works

10

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Film & TV

Acting · New York, New York, USA

Amanda Palmer is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She performs as a solo artist, and was also one-half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn, and the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra.

Known for

• The Road to Ruane — Self2024
• Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song — Self2022
• The Dresden Dolls: Return to Paradise — Herself2020
• Swans: Where Does a Body End? — Self2019
• The Mushroom Hunters — Narrator2019
• Mum and Son's Chilling Adventures — Self2019
• My Life Is Murder — Lee2019
• Temple of Art — Self2018
• Sometimes, Up On The Box — herself2018
• The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin — Self2017

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1976

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

411,745

Total plays

11,879,741

Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer is an American vocalist, pianist and performance artist, best known for her work as one half of The Dresden Dolls. Born in 1976, she grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University. She attended Lexington High School, where she was very involved in the drama department. Amanda sometimes has Lexington High School students perform drama pieces at her shows. Before she was in the Dresden Dolls, she was in a band called "Amanda Palmer

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

121

Cited by

2,175

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3212-955X

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,837x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,617x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,964x

4. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,894x

5. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 10,235x

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Music

Quotes

• “I write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes. We certainly have enough for the next album, which could take at least another year to come out.”
• “I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.”
• “i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer’s all at once. i am the walrus.”
• “Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.”
• “A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.”
• “I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.”

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Key facts

Also known as

Amanda Fucking Palmer AFP

Born

Amanda MacKinnon Palmer , ( 1976-04-30 ) April 30, 1976 (age 50) , New York City , U.S.

Origin

Boston , Massachusetts , U.S.

Genres

Alternative rock dark cabaret folk

Occupations

Singer-songwriter musician performance artist author

Instruments

Vocals keyboards ukulele harmonica drums

Years active

1999–present

Labels

Roadrunner Cooking Vinyl 8ft. Records

Spouse

Neil Gaiman ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2022 ) ​

Website

AmandaPalmer.net

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