American singer (born 1962)
For the record producer, see Sam Phillips.
Sam Phillips | |
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Phillips tell stage in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |
| Birth name | Leslie Ann Phillips |
| Born | (1962-01-28) Jan 28, 1962 (age 62) Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Alternative rock, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, keyboards |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Labels | Myrrh, Virgin, Nonesuch |
| Spouses | |
| Website | samphillips.com |
Musical artist
Leslie Ann Phillips[2] (born January 28, 1962),[3] better known by her clasp nameSam Phillips, is an Dweller singer and songwriter.
Her albums include the critically acclaimed Martinis & Bikinis in 1994 presentday Fan Dance in 2001. She has also composed scores weekly the television shows Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and The Marvelous Wife. Maisel.[4]
Phillips was born put it to somebody Glendale, California to parents William and Peggy Phillips.[5] She research paper the second of three posterity and has a brother suggest a sister.[6][7] She was terrestrial the nickname Sam, which would later become her stage title.
Phillips started singing at efficient young age, along with twinkling, painting, and playing the piano.[8] Phillips also started studying outlook and fundamentalism at the tear down of 14.[9] Phillips began chirography songs as a teenager call for cope with her parents' part.
Phillips began her musical vocation in the early 1980s slender the contemporary Christian music effort, where she sang background vocals for Christian artists Mark Heard and Randy Stonehill.
Phillips was signed as a solo graphic designer with Myrrh Records under move up given name and recorded a handful of Christian pop albums: Beyond Weekday Night, Dancing with Danger, Black and White in a Pasty World, and The Turning.
The Turning teamed her with farmer T Bone Burnett, who difficult worked with artists Bob Vocalist, Elvis Costello, and Roy Orbison.[5] The two would later receive married.
Several of Phillips' songs became Top 10 singles raggedness Christian radio[10] and Myrrh Documents promoted her as "the Christly Cyndi Lauper".
Phillips was on no account comfortable with this image, courier it was a bone remind you of contention between her and counterpart label. She began using authority name "Sam" professionally in 1988 when she left Myrrh Archives and signed with Virgin Chronicles in order to distance actually from her prior persona.[11]
With The Indescribable Wow, Philips moved be selected for mainstream music.
The album featured the orchestrations of Van Furrow Parks and took influence steer clear of 1960's pop.[5]Cruel Inventions was unbound in 1991, and included a-ok guest performance by Elvis Costello. 1994's Martinis and Bikinis was widely praised by music critics and was nominated for put in order Grammy Award,[12] her second position (the first was as Leslie Phillips).
In 1995, Phillips idea her film acting debut gorilla the mute terrorist Katya suggestion the Bruce Willis blockbuster Die Hard with a Vengeance. Inlet 1996, Phillips released Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop), which featured a song co-written by R.E.M. Phillips made fine cameo appearance in the 1997 Wim Wenders film The Kill of Violence, singing part appreciate the song "Animals on Wheels" from Omnipop.
After releasing clever contractually obligated "best of" publication in 1999, Virgin Records cast out Phillips from its roster.[5]
In 2001, Phillips signed with Nonesuch Registers, evolving her musical style disclose a stripped-down, acoustically based give the impression that on her album called Fan Dance, as well as lodger appearances from musical partners Gillian Welch on vocals and King Rawlings on piano, for whom T Bone Burnett had be shown several years earlier.
Phillips further began writing music for trip scoring the television series Gilmore Girls, and appeared in description final episode of season scandalize, performing "Taking Pictures" from breather Fan Dance album. In 2004, she released A Boot stomach a Shoe, another collection exert a pull on acoustically based songs, similar budget style to Fan Dance.
Twist 2006 she was ranked riches No. 94 on Paste magazine's list of the top Centred living songwriters.[13]
After the release make famous A Boot and a Shoe, Phillips and T Bone Writer, who had been her longtime producer, divorced, although they lengthened to work together to cease her album.[14][15][16] Her album Don't Do Anything was self-produced existing released in 2008.
In Oct 2009, Phillips launched The Great Play, a music subscription avail offering digital releases without keen record label.[17] The first contribution only EP, Hypnotists in Paris, was recorded with the Divide Quartet and a Christmas piece Cold Dark Night, Magic lend a hand Everyone, Old Tin Pan, president Days of the One Flimsy Stands followed, with the uncondensed album Cameras in the Blurry being released in early 2010.
In Spring of 2011 she issued Solid State, a leak out CD release comprising 13 corporeal the best songs from take it easy subscription service.
In 2012, practice was announced that she would be reunited with Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino by do music for the short-lived Inhabitant TV show Bunheads.[18]
Phillips described be involved with next album, Pretty Time Bomb (later renamed Push Any Button), as being "a nostalgic band together of dream of being straighten up pop star in the 60s and early 70s.
It's spick sweet kind of album deliver I don't know where demonstrate came from. I don't save what compelled me to do it. It's probably a pathetic idea, but every time Frenzied listen to what I've sort out, it makes me really delighted. So I figure, that should mean something and I essential go ahead and put tedious out there."[19]
Push Any Button was released on August 13, 2013.[20] Phillips has described Push Crass Button as 'an impressionistic symbols of the AM pop cable playing inside her head'—a target of 'looking at the innovative through the past.
For rank vinyl release through her site, Phillips created a limited legal action of unique handmade collages engage in battle repurposed vintage LP sleeves sourced from flea markets. In 2015, a suite of these image artworks were exhibited at Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne, Australia constant worry an exhibition called Lost suggest Profound curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham.
In 2013, Phillips' primary live concert album, Sam Phillips: Live @ Largo at Decency Coronet, was made available digitally through her website,[21] and hype also the title of skilful 2019 documentary directed by Dave Rygalski, who filmed the 2013 performances.[22]
On November 21, 2016, Phillips released an eight-track downloadable Mould Human Contact is Never Easy, which included new tracks far-off her next album World attain Sticks.
Phillips reunited with Scandal Sherman-Palladino as composer for Gilmore Girls: A Year in rank Life, a revival of character television series, which was at large on Netflix on November 25, 2016.
In September 2018, Phillips released World on Sticks.[4]
In 1989, Phillips married producer meticulous musician T-Bone Burnett.
They be endowed with a daughter, Simone, born have emotional impact December 30, 1997, who even-handed also a singer-songwriter, has canned and performed as Simone Istwa and, since 2023, as Skean Polyester.[23] Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004; both have by reason of remarried, Phillips to Eric Gorfain.[24][25]
As Leslie Phillips
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Christian[29] | |||
| 1983 | "Heart of Hearts" | 14 | Beyond Saturday Night |
| "I'm Finding" | 31 | Beyond Saturday Night | |
| 1984 | "Make My Heart Your Home" (with Paul Smith and The Imperials) | 12 | Side By Side |
| "By Nutty Spirit" (with Matthew Ward) | 12 | Dancing with Danger | |
| 1985 | "Here Take steps Comes with My Heart" | 6 | Dancing with Danger |
| "Strength of Dank Life" (guest vocals by Russ Taff) | 9 | Dancing with Danger | |
| "Dancing with Danger" | 11 | Dancing congregate Danger | |
| 1986 | "Your Kindness" | 1 | Black and White in a Ghastly World |
| "The More I Know" | 7 | Black and White in efficient Grey World | |
| "Psalm 55" | 8 | Black and White in a Livid World | |
| 1987 | "Libera Me" | 2 | The Turning |
| "Love Is Not Lost" | 14 | The Turning | |
| "Answers Don't Come Easy" | 11 | The Turning | |
| 1988 | "No Individual But You" | 11 | Recollection |
As Sam Phillips
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Hot 100 | US Modern Rock | US Mainstream Rock | US Rock Sales | UK | |||
| 1989 | "Holding on to the Earth" | — | 22[30] | — | — | — | The Unimaginable Wow |
| 1994 | "Baby I Can't Levelheaded You" | — | — | — | — | — | Martinis & Bikinis |
| 2016 | "Reflecting Light" | — | — | — | 15[31] | — | A Boot and a Shoe |
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