Aimee Mann

Aimee Elizabeth Mann born September 8 1960 is an American singersongwriter 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 cofounded the new wave band Til Tuesday and wrote their topten single Voices Carry 1985 Til Tuesday released three albums and disbanded in 1990 when Mann left to pursue a solo career Manns first two solo albums Whatever 1993 and Im 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