Fiona Apple

**Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart**, or **Fiona Apple** (born September 13, 1977) is an American musician. Her song _Criminal_, which was on her first album, _Tidal_, won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Since then Apple has released four studio albums.

## Early life

Apple was born in New York City to singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. She started psychotherapy when she was 11. When she was 12 she was raped outside the apartment she lived in. She had obsessive-compulsive disorder.

## Career

In 1994 Apple gave demo tape containing the songs "Never Is a Promise", "Not One of Those Times", and "He Takes a Taxi" to her friend, who was the babysitter of music publicist Kathryn Schenker. Schenker passed the tape on to Sony Music executive Andy Slater. Slater signed Apple to the label. In 1996 Apple's first album _Tidal_ was released. Apple won the MTV Video Music Award for "Best New Artist" for her song "Sleep to Dream" in 1997. Apple famously said that "the world is bullshit" in her acceptance speech.

In 1999 Apple's second album _When the Pawn..._ was released.

Apple sang with Johnny Cash on a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water" on Cash's 2002 album _American IV: The Man Comes Around_.

Apple's third album _Extraordinary Machine_ was released in 2005. Apple was on the cover of NYLON magazine.

In 2012 Apple's fourth album _The Idler Wheel..._ was released.

A cover of "I'm in the Middle of a Riddle" that Apple made with her sister Maude Maggart was released on February 4 on _Sweetheart_, a Valentine's album only sold at Starbucks.

## Personal life

Apple is vegan. In October 2013 she asked a fan to leave her concert in Portland, Oregon after they shouted "Get healthy!" at her.

### Albums

|align="left"|Album information|
| --- | --- |
|align="left"|_Tidal_ * Released: July 23, 1996 (U.S.) * Chart positions: #15 U.S, #43 Australia * Last RIAA certification: 3x platinum (2.7 million copies sold) * Singles: "Shadowboxer", "Slow like Honey", "Sleep to Dream", "The First Taste", "Criminal", "Never Is a Promise"|
|align="left"|_When the Pawn..._ * Released: November 9, 1999 (U.S.) * Chart positions: #13 U.S., #46 UK, #54 Australia * Last RIAA certification: Platinum (1 million copies sold) * Singles: "Fast as You Can", "Limp", "Paper Bag"|
|align="left"|_Extraordinary Machine_ * Released: October 4, 2005 (U.S.) * Chart positions: #7 U.S, #53 Australia * Last RIAA certification: Gold (600,000 copies sold) * Singles: "Parting Gift", "O' Sailor", "Not About Love", "Get Him Back"|
|align="left"|_iTunes Originals - Fiona Apple_ * Released: February 14, 2006 (U.S.)|
|align="left"|_The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do_ * Released: June 19, 2012 (U.S.) * Chart positions: #3 U.S, #23 Australia * Singles: "Every Single Night", "Hot Knife"|
|_Fetch the Bolt Cutters_ * Released: 2020||

### Charting singles

|align="center" valign="center" width="40"|Year|align="left" valign="center"|Song|align="center" valign="center"|Album|align="left" valign="center" width="50"|<small>U.S. Hot 100</small>|align="left" valign="center" width="50"|<small>U.S. Modern Rock</small>|align="left" valign="center" width="50"|<small>UK</small>|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1996|"Shadowboxer"|rowspan=3|_Tidal_|align="center"|–|align="center"|34|align="center"|–||
|align="center" rowspan=2|1997|"Sleep to Dream"|align="center"|–|align="center"|28|align="center"|84||||
|"Criminal"|align="center"|21|align="center"|4|align="center"|–||||||
|align="center"|1999|"Fast as You Can"|_When the Pawn..._|align="center"|–|align="center"|20|align="center"|33|||

## Other websites

- Official site
- MTV Fiona Apple page

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Fiona Apple
- **img**: Fiona-Apple.jpg
- **img capt**: Fiona Apple performing.
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart
- **birth place**: Manhattan, New York City, United States
- **origin**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **genre**: Alternative pop
Piano pop, Piano pop/rock
Baroque pop
Jazz
Experimental music, Experimental pop
- **occupation**: Singer-songwriter
- **instrument**: Piano, Vocal
- **years active**: 1996–present
- **label**: Epic Records, Epic
- **url**: [http://www.fiona-apple.com/ Fiona-Apple.com]