Petah is the first child for Ani and husband whom she calls her "baby daddy" Mike Napolitano. !seconds[display[i]]) { if(abs_diff > seconds[display[i]] || show_zero) { }); Ani DiFrancos life path number is 4. if(! The American 52-year-old folk singer is married to Michael Napolitano now, according to our records. [66] During her travels she met with then-detained resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Solo artist and founder of Righteous Babe Records. I think religion serves a lot of different purposes in people's lives, and I can recognize the value of that, you know, the value of ceremony, the value of community, or even just having a forum to get together and talk about ideas, about morals that's a cool concept. start2.setFullYear(today.getFullYear()); diff = start2 - today; var abs_diff = Math.abs(diff); text = ' '; In 1995, Righteous Babe Records signed with Koch International for DiFranco's release of Not a Pretty Girl. diff = (start2 - today); Ani DiFranco Binary Righteous Babe Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. In 2014, she released her eighteenth album, Allergic to Water. If he felt an immense back up if the hordes that actually left their house on the last presidential election day and registered and voted for the first time if we had stood behind him and kept saying, No, were serious, we will support you to end this war. Her records could then be found in large and small record stores alike. Suddenly, the clatter of dishes from a neighboring table and the passing rumble of trucks that routinely jockey between nearby warehouses seem quite loud to me. The American 52-year-old folk singer is married to Michael Napolitano now, according to our records. [43], In 2009, DiFranco received the Woody Guthrie Award for being a voice of positive social change. Being in her presence is a little bit like being stoned in the sense that time goes out the window what felt like a 30 minute conversation turned out to be, according to the timer on my little recorder, close to three hours. } She keeps her soul in fighting shape by surrounding herself with fellow activists. !seconds[display[i]]) { [44], DiFranco's guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato style,[45][46] rapid fingerpicking and many alternate tunings. abs_diff -= count * seconds[display[i]]; In 2017, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from A2IM (a nonprofit trade organization that represents independent record labels) and the Outstanding Achievement for Global Activism Award from A Global Friendship. Her song "In The Way" was later featured on For the Lady, a benefit CD that donated all proceeds to the United States Campaign for Burma. Alana Davis had some commercial success with DiFranco's song "32 Flavors". She performed a cover of Pink Floyd's and Roger Waters' "Comfortably Numb" for Dar Williams' album. [48] The Past is built around Phillips's storytelling, an important part of his art that had not previously been documented on recordings; on the album, DiFranco provides musical settings for his speaking voice. DiFranco's commitment to opposing the death penalty is longstanding; she has also been a long time supporter of the Southern Center for Human Rights. and did not her take husband's name in marriage. As an iconic songwriter and social activist, she has been the inspiration for woman artists and entrepreneurs for over two decades. I'm an atheist. start2.setFullYear(today.getFullYear() - 1); The baby's father, Mike Napolitano, produced her upcoming album Reprieve. The American Folk Singer was born in Buffalo on September 23, 1970. abs_diff = Math.abs(diff); But we as people kicked back and said, OK, fix it.. var large = ! She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its rhythmic variation. However, in 2015 she told the blog GoPride.com that she was ""not so queer anymore, but definitely a woman-centered woman and just a human rights-centered artist. During the first Gulf War, DiFranco participated in the anti-war movement. In 2017, she released her nineteenth, Binary. Two years prior to their wedding, DiFranco gave birth to the couple's first child, Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano. Because DiFranco and her husband producer, engineer and musician Mike Napolitano are raising their two children, time to write is . !0; while(start2 < today) { jQuery(function() { Early on, DiFranco was open about her bisexuality (she's married to producer Mike Napolitano, with whom she has two children), but in 2015, she told the LGBT blog GoPride.com she's "not so queer . Please send tips if you know something. [71], In 2002, Righteous Babe Records established the "Aiding Buffalo's Children" program in conjunction with members of the local community to raise funds for Buffalo's public school system. Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. if(!expire) { DiFranco was approached by Zoe Boekbinder to work on their Prison Music Project, an album of collaborations between incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers and musicians on the outside. 's' : '') + '