Anne Erin Clark , known professionally as St. Vincent, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
After studying at Berklee College of Music for three years, St. Vincent began her music career as a member of The Polyphonic Spree. She was also a member of Sufjan Stevens's touring band, before forming her own band in 2006. Her work has received consistent praise for its distinct musical style, which blends soft rock, experimental rock, electropop, and jazz influences. Her debut album was Marry Me , followed by Actor , Strange Mercy , St. Vincent , and Masseduction . She released a collaborative album with David Byrne in 2012 titled Love This Giant.
St. Vincent contributed backing vocals for Swans on their 2014 album To Be Kind. Her fourth solo album, the eponymous St. Vincent, was released that same year and was named album of the year by The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, NME, and Slant, as well as second best album of the year by Time. The album won her a Grammy for Best Alternative Album, her first Grammy award. She was the first solo female performer in 20 years to win a Grammy in that category. In 2018, St. Vincent was included twice in NPR's "200 Greatest songs by 21st Century Women" at number 181 with "Digital Witness" and number 38 with "Cruel".
“Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you —
You won't realize I'm gone”
"Marry Me"
Marry Me (2007)
Kontext: Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you —
You won't realize I'm gone,
You won't realize I'm gone.
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
“Come, my love, the stage is waiting,
Be the one to save my saving grace.”
"Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Marry Me (2007)
“In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.”
On working in the ensemble group The Polyphonic Spree.
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
On one of her compositions on the album Actor, in an interview for Billboard magazine (20 March 2009)
“I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away what seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away.”
"Save Me from What I Want"
Actor (2009)
"Jesus Saves, I Spend" - ( Studio video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoT14ZRY2E - Video of live performance on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3ykoc4tu0)
Marry Me (2007)
Kontext: While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days
in backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.
While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,
I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
“What me worry? I never do
I'm always amused and amusing you”
"What Me Worry?"
Paris Is Burning (2006)
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
“The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.”
"Save Me From What I Want" live @ SXSW 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYdWtjFJn8
Actor (2009)
"Paris Is Burning"
Paris Is Burning (2006)
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
“It's time.
You are light.
I guess you are afraid of what everyone is made of —
Time and Light.”
"The Apocalypse Song"
Marry Me (2007)
“While people will cheer on the spectacle we've made
I'm sitting and sculpting menageries of saints.”
"Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Marry Me (2007)
“Sticks and stones have made me smarter
it's words that cut me under my armor they say…”
"Paris Is Burning"
Paris Is Burning (2006)
“Just like an amnesiac, trying to get my senses back.
Oh where did they go.”
"Laughing with a Mouth of Blood"
Actor (2009)
