Aimee Mann

Known for ActingBorn 1960-09-08 (age 65)Richmond, Virginia, USA

Aimee Elizabeth Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter. She is noted for her sardonic and literate lyrics about dark subjects, often describing underdog characters. Mann was born in Richmond, Virginia, and studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In the 1980s, after playing with the Young Snakes and Ministry, she co-founded the new wave band 'Til Tuesday and wrote their top-ten single "Voices Carry" (1985). 'Til Tuesday released three albums and disbanded in 1990 when Mann left to pursue a solo career. Mann's first two solo albums, Whatever (1993) and I'm with Stupid (1995), earned positive reviews but low sales. She achieved wider recognition for her soundtrack for the Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia (1999). The song "Save Me" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but unfairly lost to Phil Collins for his mediocre Tarzan song. Mann won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal. Following conflict with her record company, Geffen, Mann released her third album, Bachelor No. 2, on her own label, SuperEgo Records, in 2000. It achieved acclaim and strong sales, establishing Mann as a career artist who could work outside the major label system. In 2014, Mann released an album with Ted Leo as the Both. Mann also paints and makes comics, and has appeared in films and television series including The Big Lebowski, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Steven Universe, The West Wing and Portlandia. Her awards include the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album for Mental Illness (2017). She was named one of the greatest living songwriters by NPR and Paste.Read more

Movies & web series

Aimee Mann: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse

Women Who Rock

Steven Universe

Steven Universe: The Movie

The West Wing

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley

Soundbreaking

Summer Camp Island

One Tree Hill

The Big Lebowski

American Crime Story

Magnolia

MTV Video Music Awards

Largo

Corporate

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Portlandia

Squidbillies

Enough

Saturday Night Live

The Oscars

Live from the Artists Den

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Pleased to Meet Me

Everybody Wants to Be Gen X

Varietopia with Paul F. Tompkins

The Line

Little Big Awesome

Hamburg Journal

Fantasia in Best Show Minor

The Seventh Python

The Music Biz

Programme 4

The George Lucas Talk Show: Live