Ms. Magazine
Ms. Magazine
November/December 1994
Writing and singing songs so frank you'd swear she's been reading your
diary, Ani DiFranco has been toting her guitar across the United States
ever since her first solo gig, in a seedy bar at age nine. Now 24,
DiFranco rarely sees her New York City apartment, due to her rigorous
touring schedule. In the last four years, she's released six
self-produced CDs full of unaffected folk songs about being felt up in
the subway, falling in love with women and men, getting an abortion,
bleeding through her clothes at work...you know, girl stuff. "I want to
challenge women to speak up, to believe in the power of their own
voices," she says. Maybe that's why DiFranco has legions of intensely
loyal fans, despite her rejection of the conventional recording
industry: DiFranco is CEO, talent, producer, tour manager, and crew of
her own label, Righteous Babe Records.
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