Phoebe Legere

Phoebe Hemenway Legere is a Multi-Format Artist:^[1]^[2] she is a composer, soprano, pianist and accordionist; a painter, a poet, and a film maker. Legere has recorded for Mercury Records in England and Epic, Island, Rizzoli, Funtone, ESP Disk and Einstein records in the United States. Légère has released ten CDs of original music. She has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS's City Arts, WNYC's Soundcheck, and Charlie Rose. Legere is of Acadian descent through her father.^[3]

Discography

Trust Me, 1986 Epic Records
Marilyn Monroe, 1989 Island Records
Phoebe Legere, 1993, Ripe & Ready/Dead Dog Records
Six Flights Up,1995, Funtone Records
Four Nurses of the Apocalypse, 1995, Mysterious Ways
1000 Kisses,1996, Funtone Records
Last Tango In Bubbleland, 1997, Random Records
Blue Curtain, 2000, Einstein Records
Blind Pursuits, 2001, (with Jim Staley and Bora Bergman) Einstein Records
Children of the Dawn, 2007,(w/Ken Little Hawk) Mysterious Ways
The Common Root of All Organisms, 2007 (w/Morgan Powell + Tone Road Ramblers) Einstein Records
The Prairie, 2007 (w/Morgan Powell and the Tone Road Ramblers) Einstein Records
The Imaginary Opera, DVD 2008, Einstein Records (Compilation w/Kathy Supove, Oliver Lake)
Ultra Romantic Parallel Universe, 2009, (with Leo Abrahams) Unrest Cure,Mercury Records
Dark Energy, 2009, (with Eric Mandat and the Tone Road Ramblers) Einstein Records'
Ooh La La Coq Tail 2010, Mysterious Ways
Earth Singing World 2010, ESP Disk
East Village/East Berlin 2013, Mysterious Ways
Acadian Moon 2015, Big Moose Records

Plays

2001 she received a NYSCA grant to write The Queen of New England, an experimental multimedia opera about the Massachusetts Native American Holocaust.
Her musical, Hello Mrs. President, about the first African American woman president of the United States played four times in New York City. In 1991, the first woman president was played by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame star LaVerne Baker.
Her musical, Shakespeare and Elizabeth, about the life of Elizabeth l, premiered at Theater for the New City on December 5, 2013.^[4]

Filmography

Mondo New York (1988)
The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989)
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)
King of New York (1990)
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1991)
Le Marquis de Slime (1997)
The Bar Channel (1998)
Sin City Spectacular (Episode #1.16)
The Naked Brothers Band (2007) Nickelodeon, Dir. Polly Draper

References

New York Times http://www.phoebelegere.com/nytimes.jpg
Where Magazine http://phoebelegere.com/wheremagazine.jpg
Tagesspiegel http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/phoebe-legere-deutsche-schmecken-gut/7410448.html
Processo http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=308752

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