Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple is one of those artists who makes you feel like you're eavesdropping on something genuinely private, and I mean that as the highest compliment. She burst onto the scene in 1996 with "Tidal" at just 19, winning a Grammy for "Criminal" and immediately proving she wasn't your average pop newcomer — the girl had piano chops and a raw emotional vocabulary that most artists spend decades trying to find. Then she'd disappear for years, resurface with something even more challenging and rewarding, and make you realize the wait was completely worth it. "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" in 2020 hit like a thunderclap — widely hailed as a once-in-a-decade record — and for me it confirmed she plays by nobody's rules but her own. Fifteen million records worldwide, three Grammys, and still impossible to put in a box. Exactly the kind of artist the world needs more of.

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Name (English)

Fiona Apple

Name (Japanese)

フィオナ・アップル

Reading

ふぃおな・あっぷる

Born

September 13, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Upper West Side, New York, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / singer / pianist / songwriter / jazz musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

High school

Alexander Hamilton High School

• Official sitehttps://www.fiona-apple.com
• Xhttps://x.com/fionaapple
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20Apple
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228968

Tags

• New York
• singer-songwriter
• singer
• pianist

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.