Aimee Mann und Kimon Kirk

Subsequent to graduating from high school in Richmond, Virginia, Aimee Mann moved to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. and enrolled at the Berklee College of Music. She didn’t stay long however and soon found herself in the Boston punk band The Young Shakes, who released the EP “Bark Along with The Young Shakes” in 1983. The same year the singer founded the new wave band ’Til Tuesday with classmate any boyfriend Michael Hausman. The band released three studio albums “Voices Carry” in 1985, featuring the title track which earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, “Welcome Home” in 1986, and “Everything’s Different Now” in 1988.

’Til Tuesday broke up in 1990 when Mann departed to pursue a solo career, which resulted in the 1993 debut album “Whatever”. The album earned a host of critical praise despite not fairing considerably well commercially, and brought the singer back into the minds of music fans. After battling with her label to be freed of her contract, Mann’s subsequent album “I’m with Stupid” was the last to be released through Geffen Records in 1995. The album was received with much the same critical and commercial response as the first, and gave credence to the view that Mann’s songwriting ability was up there with Elvis Costello and Andy Partridge.

In 1999 the singer-songwriter won both an Academy Award and a Grammy Award for her soundtrack to the Paul Thomas Anderson film “Magnolia”, and founded her own label SuperEgo Records. Mann went on to release the full-length album “Bachelor No. 2” in the spring of 2000, succeeded by the self-released album “Lost in Space” in 2002. In 2004 the CD/DVD “Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse” was released documenting her summer tour, and was followed by highly acclaimed concept album “Forgotten Arm” in 2006.

After releasing the Christmas album “One More Drifter in the Snow” in 2006 and the full-length “@#%&! Smilers” in 2008, Mann receded from the spotlight, working on a musical for “Forgotten Arms”, though had a small but memorable cameo appearance on the TV show “Porlandia”. In 2012 the singer-songwriter returned to release her first album in four years “Charmer”, produced by Paul Bryan.