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Byline: Liza Ghorbani
Ever since she was a child on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Fiona Apple has had an unsubtle approach to dealing with her emotions. "My mother said there would be three sounds," she recounts with a laugh. "The first would be me stomping down the hallway, the second was me slamming my door, and the third sound would be the piano being banged on."
That same tumultuousness has been a trademark of the singer-songwriter from the moment she arrived on the music scene as a teenager in 1996.
Her triple-platinum debut Tidal made waves with its fiery torch songs and the controversial video for "Criminal," in which the waifish chanteuse prowled around in her underwear. She followed it up with a more sophisticated, though less successful, sophomore effort that came to be known as When the Pawn . . . , the beginning of a 90-word title Apple penned in response to her critics.
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