Phoebe Bridgers is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer who received critical acclaim for her studio album Punisher (2020).
Wiki/Biography
Phoebe Bridgers was born as Phoebe Lucille Bridgers (2021) on Wednesday, August 17, 1994 in Orange County, California. Her zodiac sign is Leo.
Phoebe Bridgers childhood photos
Although her father tried to get her to learn piano, Phoebe preferred guitar. In an interview, she said,
I hate being forced to do something. Reading sheet music is like doing math homework… The guitar is my rebellion.”
Later, she started playing guitar at the age of ten after her father taught her some chords. When she was in sixth grade at Secoyah School in Pasadena, Bridgers formed her first band. At school, she often participated in various talent shows and assemblies. Her love for music was sparked by her mother, Jamie, who took Phoebe to various concerts since she was a child. She also enrolled Phoebe in music classes at the Claremont Folk Music Center. In 2009, Bridgers enrolled in the music program at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA). Later, at the age of 15, Bridgers joined the female punk rock band Sloppy Jane, led by artist Haley Dahl.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 1″
Hair color: Platinum
Eye color: dark brown
family
Phoebe’s father was a set carpenter who built sets for film and television. In an interview, she revealed that her father was abusive and a drug addict. Her mother, Jamie Gandola Bridgers, worked various odd jobs before she got into stand-up comedy. Her parents divorced when she was 20. Her brother, Jackson Bridgers, attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Phoebe Bridgers and her mother
Phoebe Bridgers and her brother
Affair/Boyfriend
Phoebe Bridgers belongs to the LGBTQ community because she is bisexual. In an interview, she said,
TMI I lost my virginity in high school and I wasn’t allowed to sext or invite boys or girls. I wasn’t allowed to have girls sleep in my bed because my parents knew I was bi. I felt a weird sense of shame about it.”
At the age of 20, she met American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. Although Ryan and Phoebe’s relationship started out as a professional one, it soon became a romantic one. In 2019, Bridgers and several other women accused Adams of emotional abuse in a report in The New York Times.
Ryan Adams
Later, Bridgers was rumored to be dating her drummer and musical collaborator Marshall Vore. In a 2020 interview, Bridgers claimed that the song “I See You” from her second album Punisher (2020) was about her ex-boyfriend and drummer Marshall Vore.
Phoebe Bridgers and Marshall Wall
Profession
One day, while performing with Sloppy Jane, she was discovered by a talent scout and landed a series of roles in ads for Taco Bell, HomeGoods, Apple and Intuit. She appeared in a 2014 iPhone ad, singing a cover of the Pixies song “Gigantic”. At 15, she opened for American pop singer Peter Case at the Coffee Gallery at a Scott Gates concert.
In 2014, she gained recognition when American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams produced her debut EP, Killer.
Hitman (2014)
In 2017, she signed with Bloomington-based American independent record label Dead Oceans. That same year, she burst onto the scene with her debut album, Stranger in the Alps, a collection of melancholic tracks about intimacy and how our relationships affect the way we see ourselves.
Stranger in the Alps (2017)
In 2018, Bridgers teamed up with independent singer-songwriters Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus to form the band Boygenius, signed to Matador Records. In October 2018, Boygenius released its self-titled album to critical acclaim.
Genius (2018)
In June 2020, Phoebe rose to fame with her second album, The Punisher, which included the hit song “I See You”. The album also included the song “Kyoto”, which was later nominated for the Grammy Awards (2021) for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. In December 2020, Phoebe released the music video for the song “Savior Complex”, which was nominated for the Libera Award (2021) for Video of the Year.
dispute
- In February 2019, Phoebe Bridgers revealed that American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams sexually pursued her after helping launch her music career. According to Phoebe, Adams invited her to Pax-Am Studios one night in 2014. Excited by her performance, Adams gifted her an expensive vintage guitar and offered to launch her into a career. After this, Adams began sending Phoebe flirtatious texts and a relationship began. Soon, the romantic texts turned into obsessive sexual and emotionally abusive texts. Often, the texts insisted that Phoebe prove her whereabouts or leave social gatherings to call for sex. Adams, through his lawyer, has dismissed the allegations.
Favorite Things
- Singers: Elliott Smith, Tom Waits
Facts/Trivia
- Phoebe Bridgers didn’t drink for the first time until she was 19, and she stopped drinking because she hated the experience. In an interview, she said,
That really freaked me out. I was like, I don’t want to lose control… I guess I’m allergic to alcohol.”
- At the 2014 Stagecoach festival, she took a photo in front of a man wearing a T-shirt that read “Roses are red, areolas are pink, show me yours and I’ll buy you a drink.” The photo went viral on the Internet. In an interview, she said:
I took an angry picture in front of him. Then all my friends started texting me that it was on the front page of Reddit. No one knew who I was. It was hilarious.
Phoebe Bridgers at the Stagecoach Festival (2014)
- Phoebe Bridgers has a Sailor Jerry heart tattoo on her left arm with the word “Max” written in the middle. Max was Phoebe’s late pet pug, who passed away in the winter of 2019.
Phoebe Bridgers’ Sailor Jerry heart tattoo
- She lives in a Silver Lake apartment in Los Angeles, California.
- She discovered her sexuality during high school. She used to dye her hair unnatural colors and later she shaved it off. In an interview, she shared her high school memories and said,
I think I started looking like a lesbian in high school… Girls who wanted to try new things were attracted to girls with shaved heads, so I was kind of forced to figure that out.”
- Once, a fan left her a note after a performance with a sword as a gift. She was so touched that she thought the gift was worth tattooing, so she tattooed the sword on her arm.
Phoebe Bridgers’ sword piercing a paper strip tattoo
- In 2019, Bridgers collaborated with American singer-songwriters Fiona Apple and Matt Berninger to release a cover of the song “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night”, which features the following lyrics:
Happy holidays to all the family members that have been literally or figuratively torn apart by Donald Trump. As for my racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, hypocritical family members, screw you.”
Additionally, during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Bridgers vowed to cover “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls if then-President Donald Trump lost the election.
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