May 12, 2022
Amanda Palmer on spending the pandemic in New Zealand, her early love of The Beatles, The Stray Cats and The Cure, her recent discovery of 1920's Jazz great Bix Beiderbecke and why the internet should be a public utility.
Amanda Palmer is a best-selling author, feminist songwriter, community leader, pianist, and ukulele enthusiastic!
She began her career with the highly regarded theatrical punk cabaret duo, the Dresden Dolls, before moving on to diverse solo work such as the groundbreaking crowdfunded "Theater is Evil" album, which debuted at the top of the billboard 200 in 2012 and remains the top funded original music project on Kickstarter.
In 2013, she presented her Ted talk, The Art of Asking, which has been viewed over 20 million times, later expanding it into the New York times bestselling memoir. "The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help". Amanda was an early adopter of the Patreon platform to fund her artwork with an average of 15,000 patrons micro supporting her creations each month. In 2019, she released her album. "There Will Be No Intermission" and spent the next year touring the record with its themes and songs of life, death, abortion, and miscarriage.
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