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History Highlight:
Today in 1987, singer-songwriter Angel Olsen was born, making her 38. Olsen grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and she learned piano and guitar and began writing music while in high school. After high school, Olsen moved to Chicago to pursue music, where she collaborated with a number of artists including Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Wilco, and Cass McCombs. In 2011 and 2012, respectively, Olsen released her debut EP and album on Asheville, North Carolina-based Bathetic Records, and was later signed to Jagjaguwar. Olsen has since released five albums on the label, including 2022’s Big Time. Olsen is known for powerful tunes that pack a punch, such as the driving “Shut Up Kiss Me”; the slow-burn rocker “Give It Up”; and the orchestral crooner “Big Time.”
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Angel Olsen
American musician
Musical artist
Angel Olsen (born Angelina Marie Carroll; January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri[8][9] who lives in Asheville, North Carolina.[10]
To date, Olsen has released six studio albums: Half Way Home (2012), Burn Your Fire for No Witness (2014), My Woman (2016), All Mirrors (2019), Whole New Mess (2020), and Big Time (2022).
Early life and education
Angel Olsen was born on January 22, 1987, in St. Louis, Missouri. At age three, Olsen was adopted by a foster family that had cared for her since shortly after her birth. The difference in years between her and her parents left an impression. "Because there are so many decades of difference between us, I became more interested in what their childhood was like," she says of her parents, both of whom died in 2021.[11] "I fantasized about what it was like to be young in the ’30s and ’50s, more so than other kids my age."[10] Olsen explained that "my mother just has this capacity for c
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Angel Olsen
Her trembling and howling tones of her voice, somewhere between Joni Mitchell and Edith Piaf, matured on Half Way Home (Bathetic, 2012). She can sing practically anything and turn it into an adventure, whether the slow-waltzing Safe In The Womb or the country & western lament Miranda. She rises over the flamenco guitar and maracas of The Sky Opened Up and plunges into the delicate Leonard Cohen-ian lullaby of You Are Song. She even transports the listener back into the Brill Building of the 1950s with the catchy The Waiting, and the shimmering melody of Free evokes the jangling folk-rock of the hippy era (and the coda has a vocal flight worthy of an opera soprano). The seven-minute Lonely Universe blends Chris Isaak's self-flagellation and a slow-motion version of the refrain of the Rolling Stones' Ruby Tuesday.
Her single Sweet Dreams (2013) left behind the austere acoustic arrangements for an electric q
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